Senior Payroll Clerk/records Support Technician Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
In New Jersey, Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician 3 is filled through the competitive process: candidates take a civil service exam and are hired off a ranked list, not picked at will.
Qualifying turns on 2 years of relevant experience.
Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician is a single-title classification family: Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician 3 is the only position in it. Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician supervises titles such as Electronic Systems Technician and Fire Signal System Technician.
Positions in This Family
What the Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician family covers
In New Jersey's classification plan, Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician stands alone. The family holds one title code rather than a graded series. Its titles are common jurisdiction, meaning the same classification is used at the state level and by local civil service employers alike.
Office support is where New Jersey's classification plan is at its most granular. Typing, transcription, stenography, records, reception and general clerical duties each became their own series, and each series then split into state and local versions, which is why the catalog holds so many near-identical clerical codes. For applicants this granularity is mostly good news: it means a lot of separate eligible lists, most of them asking for a high school diploma and no experience, and it makes clerical work the most common way people enter the system and then transfer sideways.
Two jobs in one title
Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Senior Payroll Clerk and Records Support Technician at once, held by a single employee expected to do both. They exist because a borough or authority with a single crew cannot justify a separate post per function, so the combined duties get their own classification.
Separately, Records Support Technician is its own family of 5 title codes across 4 levels. This consolidation holds 1 code, which is the usual pattern, since a consolidated title is normally created for the one jurisdiction that asked for it. Read the component specifications alongside this one, because the requirements of both halves apply.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician 3: Under general supervision of a Supervising Payroll Clerk or other supervisor, performs the more…
Requirements across the family
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. Experience requirements sit at 2 years wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 1 is competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
How the pay is set
No state salary schedule applies here, because these are local titles. Pay is set by each adopting county, municipality or authority under its own ordinance or negotiated agreement, so two employers using the same title code can pay very differently. How local civil service pay works.
Where these jobs exist
These are common jurisdiction titles, which is the most flexible position to be in as an applicant: the same classification is used by state departments and by local civil service employers, so an eligible list built in one place still describes work you can do in the other. What common jurisdiction means.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Other classifications built on the same terms as Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Records Support Technician 2 (local jurisdiction) — in the Records Support Technician family
- Public Safety Telecommunicator/Records Support Technician 3 (local jurisdiction) — in the Public Safety Telecommunicator/Records Support Technician family
- Supervisor Personnel Records and Payroll Processing 3 ($55,691 to $81,008, state jurisdiction) — in the Supervisor Personnel Records and Payroll Processing family
- Payroll Clerk (local jurisdiction)
- Payroll Clerk ($39,358 to $56,481, state jurisdiction)
- Senior Payroll Clerk (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician jobs
How many separate Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician classifications does New Jersey have?
The Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician paid?
No state salary schedule figure is published for the titles in this family, which is normal for local classifications. Local civil service employers set their own pay by ordinance or negotiated agreement, so the rate depends on which county, municipality or authority is hiring.
Is there a civil service test for Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician?
Yes for most of the family. 1 of the 1 title are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.
What are the requirements to become a Senior Payroll Clerk/Records Support Technician?
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 2 years is named where a requirement is stated.