Senior Biologist Family
Career series with 5 positions
Rather than one job, Senior Biologist is a rank used across 5 different specializations in New Jersey civil service (5 codes total).
Specializations include Education, Fisheries, and Mosquito Control, among others. Pay across the family spans $69,668 to $101,951, around the 31st percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 130 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Environmental Protection.
Senior Biologist is closely related to Principal Biologist and Assistant Biologist.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- SENIOR BIOLOGIST, FISHERIES (01753C) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- SENIOR BIOLOGIST, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT (01753G) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- SENIOR BIOLOGIST, WATER RESOURCES (01753K) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- SENIOR BIOLOGIST, MOSQUITO CONTROL (01753O) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- SENIOR BIOLOGIST, EDUCATION (01753P) $69,668 - $101,951/year
What the Senior Biologist family covers
Senior Biologist is a rank rather than a single job. New Jersey applies it across 5 specializations, which together account for 5 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.
The state runs working laboratories rather than research institutes, so scientific titles are tied to a statutory job: testing water and air, screening newborns, analysing evidence, monitoring pesticides, mapping geology. Degrees in a named field do the qualifying, and the exam is often an evaluation of education and experience rather than a written test. Because each laboratory is small, these families tend to be short ladders inside one agency instead of broad classifications spread across government.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Senior Biologist family stacks up as follows.
- Senior Biologist, Education — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Senior Biologist, Mosquito Control — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Senior Biologist, Water Resources — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Senior Biologist, Wildlife Management — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Senior Biologist, Fisheries — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Senior Biologist, Fisheries to the top of Senior Biologist, Education is $32,283, an increase of about 46% 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.
- Senior Biologist, Fisheries: Under the limited supervision of a Principal Biologist, Fisheries or other supervisory official in the Department of Environmental Protection, takes the lead…
- Senior Biologist, Wildlife Management: Under the limited supervision of a Principal Biologist, Wildlife Management, or other supervisory official in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in…
- Senior Biologist, Water Resources: Under the direction or a Supervising Biologist, Water Resources or other supervisory officer in the Department of Environmental Protection, conducts…
- Senior Biologist, Mosquito Control: Under the limited supervision of a Principal Biologist, Mosquito Control or other higher level supervisory official in the Department of…
- Senior Biologist, Education: Under the limited supervision of a Principal Biologist, Education or other supervisory official in the Department of Environmental Protection, takes the lead…
Getting in: the stated requirements
Across the 5 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 5 of them. Experience requirements sit at 2 years wherever they are stated.
1 of the 5 titles carry a license or certification requirement. On how the jobs are filled: 5 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 130 people working under 5 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Environmental Protection alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Environmental Protection — 130 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $82,908 for Senior Biologist, Fisheries up to $82,908 for Senior Biologist, Education. 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.
- Biologist Trainee ($58,222 to $60,876, both state and local jurisdiction)
- Assistant Biologist, Fisheries ($60,876 to $88,743, state jurisdiction) — in the Assistant Biologist family
- Principal Biologist, Fisheries ($79,844 to $117,228, state jurisdiction) — in the Principal Biologist family
- Biologist Mosquito Extermination (local jurisdiction)
- Supervising Biologist, Education ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction)
- Supervising Biologist, Fisheries ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Senior Biologist jobs
How many Senior Biologist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Senior Biologist family holds 5 title codes. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Senior Biologist earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $69,668 at the bottom of Senior Biologist, Fisheries to $101,951 at the top of Senior Biologist, Education. 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 Senior Biologist?
Yes for most of the family. 5 of the 5 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 Senior Biologist need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 5 of the 5 titles. Stated experience ranges from 2 years depending on the rung. 1 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Senior Biologist staff?
State payroll records show 130 people in this family across 1 agency, with Environmental Protection the largest at 130. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.