Senior Laboratory Technician Family
Career series with 2 positions
Rather than one job, Senior Laboratory Technician is a rank used across 2 different specializations in New Jersey civil service (2 codes total).
Specializations include Microbiology, and Plant Industry. Pay across the family spans $50,990 to $73,902, around the 10th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 14 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Health and Senior Services.
Senior Laboratory Technician supervises titles such as Electronic Systems Technician and Clinical Laboratory Evaluator.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- SENIOR LABORATORY TECHNICIAN (MICROBIOLOGY) (01923E) $50,990 - $73,902/year
- SENIOR LABORATORY TECHNICIAN (PLANT INDUSTRY) (01923K) $50,990 - $73,902/year
What the Senior Laboratory Technician family covers
Senior Laboratory Technician is a rank rather than a single job. New Jersey applies it across 2 specializations, 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.
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 Laboratory Technician family stacks up as follows.
- Senior Laboratory Technician (plant Industry) — $50,990 to $73,902 (an associate's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Senior Laboratory Technician (microbiology) — $50,990 to $73,902 (an associate's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Senior Laboratory Technician (microbiology) to the top of Senior Laboratory Technician (plant Industry) is $22,911, an increase of about 45% 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 Laboratory Technician (microbiology): Under the supervision of a Principal Laboratory Technician or other professional staff, in a state department or agency, performs routine…
- Senior Laboratory Technician (plant Industry): SENIOR LABORATORY TECHNICIAN, PLANT INDUSTRY (01923K, A15) DEFINITION: Under the limited supervision of a Principal Laboratory Technician, or…
Getting in: the stated requirements
Across the 2 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as an associate's degree on 2 of them. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 2 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 14 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 4 agencies. Health and Senior Services alone accounts for about 57% of them.
- Health and Senior Services — 8 employees
- Treasury — 2 employees
- Agriculture — 2 employees
- Corrections — 2 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $62,548 for Senior Laboratory Technician (microbiology) up to $62,548 for Senior Laboratory Technician (plant Industry). 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.
- Laboratory Technician ($44,750 to $64,522, state jurisdiction)
- Laboratory Technician ($48,807 to $70,641, state jurisdiction)
- Laboratory Technician (both state and local jurisdiction)
- Senior Laboratory Technician ($50,990 to $73,902, state jurisdiction)
- Senior Laboratory Technician (local jurisdiction)
- Clinical Laboratory Technician
Common questions about Senior Laboratory Technician jobs
How many Senior Laboratory Technician titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Senior Laboratory Technician family holds 2 title codes. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Senior Laboratory Technician earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $50,990 at the bottom of Senior Laboratory Technician (microbiology) to $73,902 at the top of Senior Laboratory Technician (plant Industry). 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 Laboratory Technician?
Yes for most of the family. 2 of the 2 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 Laboratory Technician need?
The most common education requirement in this family is an associate's degree, named on 2 of the 2 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 year depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Senior Laboratory Technician staff?
State payroll records show 14 people in this family across 4 agencies, with Health and Senior Services the largest at 8. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.