Regulatory Officer Family
Career series with 13 positions across 4 levels
Regulatory Officer is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 13 titles spanning 4 levels.
Entry is typically through Regulatory Officer 3, advancing through the ladder toward Regulatory Officer 4. Pay across the family spans $69,668 to $179,046, around the 94th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 191 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Human Services.
Regulatory Officer reports to supervising titles such as Principal Staff Officer and Supervising Classification Officer.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- REGULATORY OFFICER 3 BANKING AND INSURANCE (55028) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 2, BANKING AND INSURANCE (55030) $83,582 - $122,832/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 1, BANKING AND INSURANCE (55032) $105,267 - $155,359/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 1 (56749) $83,582 - $122,832/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 2 (56751) $95,955 - $141,386/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 2 (56753) $71,879 - $100,638/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 4 (56755) $79,246 - $110,957/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 4 (61648) $121,055 - $179,046/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 3 (61649) $110,276 - $162,870/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 1, CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION (63401) $72,896 - $106,798/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 2, CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION (63402) $79,844 - $117,228/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 3, CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION (63403) $91,628 - $134,900/year
- REGULATORY OFFICER 4, CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION (63404) $105,267 - $155,359/year
What the Regulatory Officer family covers
Regulatory Officer covers 13 title codes arranged into 4 levels of responsibility. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Inspectors and examiners are the operating arm of New Jersey's regulatory statutes, and the title usually tracks the law it enforces rather than a profession. That is why these families are narrow and numerous: weights and measures, construction code, environmental compliance, child care, insurance and market conduct each get their own series. Many require a state credential issued by another agency before you can hold the title at all, so the license, not the exam, is the real bottleneck. Local health and code enforcement offices hire the same titles as the state.
The ladder, ordered by pay
The Regulatory Officer rungs, listed from the best paid down. 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.
- Regulatory Officer 4 — $121,055 to $179,046 (a doctoral degree and 5 years of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 3 — $110,276 to $162,870 (a doctoral degree and 4 years of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 4, Civil Service Commission — $105,267 to $155,359 (a doctoral degree and 4 years of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 1, Banking and Insurance — $105,267 to $155,359 (a doctoral degree and 1 year of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 2 — $95,955 to $141,386 (a doctoral degree and 2 years of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 3, Civil Service Commission — $91,628 to $134,900 (a doctoral degree and 3 years of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 1 — $83,582 to $122,832 (a doctoral degree and 1 year of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 2, Banking and Insurance — $83,582 to $122,832 (a doctoral degree and 1 year of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 2, Civil Service Commission — $79,844 to $117,228 (a doctoral degree and 2 years of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 4 — $79,246 to $110,957 (frozen schedule) (a doctoral degree and 5 years of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 1, Civil Service Commission — $72,896 to $106,798 (a doctoral degree and 1 year of experience)
- Regulatory Officer 3 Banking and Insurance — $69,668 to $101,951 (a doctoral degree)
Showing the 12 best paid of 13 titles with published salary data.
The distance from the bottom of Regulatory Officer 2 to the top of Regulatory Officer 4 is $107,167, an increase of about 149% over the entry minimum. 2 of the 13 titles in the family sit on a schedule whose rates are frozen, so the published figure there is the schedule of record rather than a guide to actual pay.
What each title does
Reading the definitions side by side is the quickest way to see what changes as you move through the family.
- Regulatory Officer 3 Banking and Insurance: Under direction of the Director of Regulatory Affairs or other supervisory officer in the Department of Banking and Insurance, performs routine…
- Regulatory Officer 2, Banking and Insurance: Under direction of the Director of Regulatory Affairs or other supervisory officer in the Department of Banking and Insurance performs the…
- Regulatory Officer 1, Banking and Insurance: Under direction of the Director of Regulatory Affairs or other supervisory official in the Department of Banking and Insurance, develops and…
- Regulatory Officer 1: Under the close supervision of a supervisory official or other designated official in a state department, institution, or agency, assists with respect to regulatory…
- Regulatory Officer 2: Under the limited supervision of a supervisory official or other designated official in a state department, institution, or agency, functions independently on…
- Regulatory Officer 2: Under direction of a higher level supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency, assists with respect to complex regulatory matters, formal and…
- Regulatory Officer 4: Under the direction of a higher-level executive official in a state department, institution, or agency manages and advises on complex regulatory matters, formal…
- Regulatory Officer 3: Under the general supervision of a higher-level supervisory official or other designated official in a state department, institution, or agency, supervises…
Showing 8 of 12 published definitions in this family. The full list of titles is below.
Requirements across the family
Across the 13 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a doctoral degree on 13 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 5 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.
6 of the 13 titles carry a license or certification requirement. On how the jobs are filled: 11 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination and 2 are non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination. 1 title in this family is covered by the compendium's special incentive program, which lets an appointing authority hire a qualified candidate above the bottom step instead of starting them at step one. See the full list of incentive titles.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 191 people working under 9 of this family's titles, spread across 18 agencies. Human Services alone accounts for about 17% of them.
- Human Services — 32 employees
- Environmental Protection — 24 employees
- Health and Senior Services — 24 employees
- Office of State Comptroller — 20 employees
- Community Affairs — 18 employees
- Children and Families — 13 employees
Those are the 6 largest of 18 agencies employing this family.
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $73,707 for Regulatory Officer 1, Civil Service Commission up to $161,785 for Regulatory Officer 4. 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
The family is split across 4 salary schedules (A-P-R-S, M, M-Represented, and V-W-Y), so two titles that look adjacent can be paid from different tables with different step structures. More than one union has members in this family: CWA and IBEW.
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
Other classifications built on the same terms as Regulatory Officer. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Regulatory Officer Trainee, Civil Service Commission ($66,592 to $69,668, state jurisdiction)
- Chief Regulatory Officer, Public Employment Relations Commission ($126,854 to $187,691, state jurisdiction) — in the Chief family
- Program Specialist 1 Regulatory Programs ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction) — in the Program Specialist family
- Title Officer ($91,628 to $134,900, state jurisdiction)
- Title Officer ($95,955 to $141,386, state jurisdiction)
- Budget Officer (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Regulatory Officer jobs
How many Regulatory Officer titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Regulatory Officer family holds 13 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Regulatory Officer earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $71,879 at the bottom of Regulatory Officer 2 to $179,046 at the top of Regulatory Officer 4. 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 Regulatory Officer?
Yes for most of the family. 11 of the 13 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 Regulatory Officer need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a doctoral degree, named on 13 of the 13 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 5 years depending on the rung. 6 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Regulatory Officer staff?
State payroll records show 191 people in this family across 18 agencies, with Human Services the largest at 32. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Regulatory Officer 1 higher or lower than Regulatory Officer 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.