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Realty Specialist Family

Career series with 8 positions across 4 levels

Realty Specialist is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 8 titles spanning 4 levels.

Entry is typically through Realty Specialist 1 Transportation, advancing through the ladder toward Realty Specialist 4 Transportation. Pay across the family spans $58,222 to $141,386, around the 70th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 49 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Transportation.

Realty Specialist reports to supervising titles such as Supervising Program Development Specialist and Senior Environmental Health Specialist.

8
Positions
4
Career Levels
1
Specializations
Salary Range: $58,222 - $141,386/year

Specializations

Transportation

Positions in This Family

What the Realty Specialist family covers

Realty Specialist is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 8 title codes across 4 levels. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.

Analyst and planner titles are where New Jersey puts the work of deciding rather than delivering: land use, capital programming, rate setting, program evaluation and policy research. Many exist at the local level because municipal and county planning boards were early adopters of civil service, so the family may hold only local codes even when the same work happens at the state under a different name. The qualification pattern is consistent, a bachelor's degree at entry with experience substituting upward, and the ladders are usually clean numbered progressions.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Realty Specialist rungs look like this. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.

The distance from the bottom of Realty Specialist 1 Transportation to the top of Realty Specialist 4 Transportation is $83,164, an increase of about 143% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

Each title in the family carries its own published definition. These are the opening lines of each one, which is usually where the difference between two neighboring rungs is actually stated.

  • Realty Specialist 1 Transportation: Under the close supervision of a Realty Specialist 3, Transportation or Realty Specialist 4, Transportation, performs the work involved in conducting…
  • Realty Specialist 2, Transportation: Under the general supervision of a Realty Specialist 3, Transportation or Realty Specialist 4, Transportation, performs the more sensitive and complex…
  • Realty Specialist 3 Transportation: Under the general supervision of a Realty Specialist 4, Transportation, performs the most sensitive and/or complex work involved in conducting…
  • Realty Specialist 2 Transportation: Under the general supervision of a Realty Specialist 3, Transportation or Realty Specialist 4, Transportation, performs the more sensitive and complex…
  • Realty Specialist 4 Transportation: Under the supervision of a Right of Way District Program Manager or other Manager, supervises staff in the administrative and operational ROW program…

What it takes to qualify

Across the 8 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 8 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 3 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

On how the jobs are filled: 7 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 49 people working under 4 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Transportation alone accounts for about 100% of them.

  • Transportation — 49 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $61,510 for Realty Specialist 1 Transportation up to $123,437 for Realty Specialist 4 Transportation. Those are medians of what people are really paid, not schedule minimums and maximums.

State payroll only, deduplicated by payroll title; local employers file separately, so a family with local codes looks smaller here than it is. How this is counted.

How the pay is set

Titles in this family are paid on the A-P-R-S salary schedule. See every step in that schedule. Bargaining is handled by CWA. Union contracts and rights are collected here.

Where these jobs exist

These are state titles, hired by New Jersey departments, commissions and boards through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process rather than by an ordinary job posting. How state hiring works, and which agencies employ what.

Related titles elsewhere in the plan

These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Realty Specialist, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.

Families next to this one

New Jersey's classification plan links families by shared terminology and by the routes people actually take between them. These sit closest to Realty Specialist.

Common questions about Realty Specialist jobs

How many Realty Specialist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

The Realty Specialist family holds 8 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does a Realty Specialist earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $58,222 at the bottom of Realty Specialist 1 Transportation to $141,386 at the top of Realty Specialist 4 Transportation. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.

Do you need to take an exam to become a Realty Specialist?

Yes for most of the family. 7 of the 8 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.

What qualifications does a Realty Specialist need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 8 of the 8 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 3 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Realty Specialist staff?

State payroll records show 49 people in this family across 1 agency, with Transportation the largest at 49. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.