Records Technician Family
Career series with 6 positions across 3 levels
Records Technician groups 6 related titles into a 3-level career ladder.
Entry is typically through Records Technician 3, Motor Vehicles, advancing through the ladder toward Records Technician 1, Motor Vehicles. Pay across the family spans $46,727 to $92,953, around the 23rd percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 160 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Motor Vehicle Commission.
Records Technician commonly advances into Training Technician and Records Support Technician.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- RECORDS TECHNICIAN 3, MOTOR VEHICLES (56535) $46,727 - $67,528/year
- RECORDS TECHNICIAN 3, MOTOR VEHICLES (56536) $50,990 - $73,902/year
- RECORDS TECHNICIAN 2, MOTOR VEHICLES (56537) $50,990 - $73,902/year
- RECORDS TECHNICIAN 2, MOTOR VEHICLES (56538) $55,691 - $81,008/year
- RECORDS TECHNICIAN 1, MOTOR VEHICLES (56540) $58,222 - $84,763/year
- RECORDS TECHNICIAN 1, MOTOR VEHICLES (56541) $63,663 - $92,953/year
What the Records Technician family covers
New Jersey classifies Records Technician as a 3-level series holding 6 separate title codes. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Clerical series are the entry door to New Jersey civil service and the largest group by headcount. They are also the most duplicated: nearly every one exists in both a state and a local version, and the local versions are what municipal clerks, county offices and boards of education hire against. Most require a high school diploma and nothing more, which makes them the practical route in for applicants without a degree. Advancement runs by responsibility, from clerk to senior to principal to head, with the specialised transcription and stenography variants branching off partway up.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Records Technician family stacks up as follows. Note that the numbers in these titles do not run in pay order. In this family a lower number sits higher on the ladder, which is a New Jersey convention that catches people out when they read a title list top to bottom.
- Records Technician 1, Motor Vehicles — $63,663 to $92,953 (3 years of experience)
- Records Technician 1, Motor Vehicles — $58,222 to $84,763 (3 years of experience)
- Records Technician 2, Motor Vehicles — $55,691 to $81,008 (2 years of experience)
- Records Technician 2, Motor Vehicles — $50,990 to $73,902 (2 years of experience)
- Records Technician 3, Motor Vehicles — $50,990 to $73,902 (1 year of experience)
- Records Technician 3, Motor Vehicles — $46,727 to $67,528 (1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Records Technician 3, Motor Vehicles to the top of Records Technician 1, Motor Vehicles is $46,226, an increase of about 99% over the entry minimum.
What each title does
The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.
- Records Technician 3, Motor Vehicles: Under direction of a supervisor in a state department or agency, performs technical or paraprofessional functions requiring entry, deletion, and…
- Records Technician 2, Motor Vehicles: Under direction of a supervisor in a state department or agency, performs the more complex technical or paraprofessional functions requiring entry…
- Records Technician 1, Motor Vehicles: Under direction of a supervisor in a state department or agency, takes the lead in performing technical or paraprofessional functions requiring entry…
Getting in: the stated requirements
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. 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: 6 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 160 people working under 3 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Motor Vehicle Commission alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Motor Vehicle Commission — 160 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $61,225 for Records Technician 3, Motor Vehicles up to $81,320 for Records Technician 1, Motor Vehicles. 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
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Medical Records Technician ($53,282 to $77,371, both state and local jurisdiction)
- Records Support Technician 2 (local jurisdiction) — in the Records Support Technician family
- Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician 3 (both state and local jurisdiction) — in the Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician family
- Public Safety Telecommunicator/Records Support Technician 3 (local jurisdiction) — in the Public Safety Telecommunicator/Records Support Technician family
- Records Manager (local jurisdiction)
- Clerk 1, Records ($39,358 to $56,481, state jurisdiction) — in the Clerk family
Common questions about Records Technician jobs
How many Records Technician titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Records Technician family holds 6 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Records Technician earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $46,727 at the bottom of Records Technician 3, Motor Vehicles to $92,953 at the top of Records Technician 1, Motor Vehicles. 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 Records Technician?
Yes for most of the family. 6 of the 6 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 Records Technician need?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 1 to 3 years is named where a requirement is stated.
Which agencies employ Records Technician staff?
State payroll records show 160 people in this family across 1 agency, with Motor Vehicle Commission the largest at 160. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Records Technician 1 higher or lower than Records Technician 3?
In this family the lower number is the more senior title. New Jersey's level numbering does not run in pay order, and reading the titles by number alone will give you the ladder upside down. The list above is sorted by what each title actually pays.