School Psychologist Family
Career series with 2 positions
School Psychologist is a generic classification: 1 specialization areas share the title across 2 codes.
Specializations include 10 Month and 12 Month. Pay across the family spans $72,896 to $134,900, around the 64th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 11 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Children and Families.
School Psychologist is closely related to Clinical Psychologist and Staff Clinical Psychologist.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST (10 MONTH AND 12 MONTH) (73104) $91,628 - $134,900/year
- SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST (10 MONTH AND 12 MONTH) (73105) $72,896 - $106,798/year
What the School Psychologist family covers
School Psychologist is a rank rather than a single job. New Jersey applies it across 1 specialization, which together account for 2 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.
Public school teachers in New Jersey are not civil service, so the education titles in this system are the ones that sit outside a classroom: instructors in correctional and developmental facilities, curriculum and program development staff, and the education specialists at the Department of Education. Library titles are different again. County and municipal libraries are among the local employers that adopted civil service in their own right, which is why librarian and library assistant series carry local codes and appear in the local jurisdiction directory.
The ladder, ordered by pay
The School Psychologist rungs, listed from the best paid down.
- School Psychologist (10 Month and 12 Month) — $91,628 to $134,900 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- School Psychologist (10 Month and 12 Month) — $72,896 to $106,798 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of School Psychologist (10 Month and 12 Month) to the top of School Psychologist (10 Month and 12 Month) is $62,004, an increase of about 85% over the entry minimum.
What each title does
Reading the definitions side by side is the quickest way to see what changes as you move through the family.
- School Psychologist (10 Month and 12 Month): Under direction of a supervisor in a state department, is responsible for examining, classifying, and recommending…
Requirements across the family
Across the 2 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 2 of them. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
Every title here carries a license or certification requirement, so the credential matters more than the exam score. On how the jobs are filled: 2 are unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 11 people working under 1 of this family's title, spread across 4 agencies. Children and Families alone accounts for about 55% of them.
- Children and Families — 6 employees
- Juvenile Justice Commission — 2 employees
- Education — 2 employees
- Corrections — 1 employee
Median actual pay for School Psychologist (10 Month and 12 Month) is $130,339, which is what people in the title are really paid rather than the published band.
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
Other classifications built on the same terms as School Psychologist. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Clinical Psychologist (local jurisdiction)
- Clinical Psychologist (local jurisdiction)
- Clinical Psychologist 1 ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction) — in the Clinical Psychologist family
- Chief Clinical Psychologist (local jurisdiction) — in the Chief family
- Staff Clinical Psychologist I ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction)
- Staff Clinical Psychologist 2 ($66,592 to $97,354, state jurisdiction) — in the Staff Clinical Psychologist family
Common questions about School Psychologist jobs
How many School Psychologist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The School Psychologist family holds 2 title codes. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a School Psychologist earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $72,896 at the bottom of School Psychologist (10 Month and 12 Month) to $134,900 at the top of School Psychologist (10 Month and 12 Month). 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 School Psychologist?
Mostly no. 2 of the 2 titles here are unclassified, so appointment is at the employer's discretion rather than from an eligible list, and salary is set individually rather than by a published step. That also makes cross-agency salary comparison less reliable for these titles.
What qualifications does a School Psychologist need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 2 of the 2 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 year depending on the rung. 2 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ School Psychologist staff?
State payroll records show 11 people in this family across 4 agencies, with Children and Families the largest at 6. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.