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Staff Clinical Psychologist Family

Career series with 5 positions across 3 levels

Staff Clinical Psychologist groups 5 related titles into a 3-level career ladder.

Entry is typically through Staff Clinical Psychologist 1 (mental Health Services), advancing through the ladder toward Staff Clinical Psychologist 3. Pay across the family spans $58,222 to $111,856, around the 39th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 76 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Health and Senior Services.

Staff Clinical Psychologist commonly advances into Clinical Laboratory Evaluator and Staff Nurse -.

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Positions
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Career Levels
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Specializations
Salary Range: $58,222 - $111,856/year

Specializations

Mental Health Services

Positions in This Family

What the Staff Clinical Psychologist family covers

Staff Clinical Psychologist covers 5 title codes arranged into 3 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.

Clinical titles staff the state psychiatric hospitals, the developmental centers, the veterans homes and the county health departments. Licensure usually does the gatekeeping that an exam does elsewhere, so the qualification text points at a board registration rather than a test score, and the competitive exam is often an evaluation of credentials. This is also the corner of the compendium where the state pays to fill vacancies faster: several health care titles can be hired above the bottom step under the special incentive program.

The ladder, ordered by pay

The Staff Clinical Psychologist rungs, listed from the best paid down. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.

The distance from the bottom of Staff Clinical Psychologist 1 (mental Health Services) to the top of Staff Clinical Psychologist 3 (mental Health Services) is $53,634, an increase of about 92% 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.

Requirements across the family

Across the 5 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 3 of them and a doctoral degree on 2 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 3 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

On how the jobs are filled: 5 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional 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 76 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 2 agencies. Health and Senior Services alone accounts for about 66% of them.

  • Health and Senior Services — 50 employees
  • Human Services — 26 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $104,637 for Staff Clinical Psychologist 3 up to $104,637 for Staff Clinical Psychologist 3 (mental Health Services). 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

Other classifications built on the same terms as Staff Clinical Psychologist. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.

Families next to this one

New Jersey's classification plan links families by shared terminology and by the routes people actually take between them. These sit closest to Staff Clinical Psychologist.

Common questions about Staff Clinical Psychologist jobs

How many Staff Clinical Psychologist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

The Staff Clinical Psychologist family holds 5 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does a Staff Clinical Psychologist earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $58,222 at the bottom of Staff Clinical Psychologist 1 (mental Health Services) to $111,856 at the top of Staff Clinical Psychologist 3 (mental Health Services). 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 Staff Clinical Psychologist?

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 Staff Clinical Psychologist need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 3 of the 5 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 3 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Staff Clinical Psychologist staff?

State payroll records show 76 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Health and Senior Services the largest at 50. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.