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Supervising Family Service Specialist Family

Career series with 6 positions across 2 levels

New Jersey classifies Supervising Family Service Specialist as a 2-level family, 6 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.

Entry is typically through Supervising Family Service Specialist 2, advancing through the ladder toward Supervising Family Service Specialist 1. Pay across the family spans $83,582 to $141,386, around the 70th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 903 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Children and Families.

Supervising Family Service Specialist supervises titles such as Physician Specialist.

6
Positions
2
Career Levels
Salary Range: $83,582 - $141,386/year

Positions in This Family

What the Supervising Family Service Specialist family covers

Supervising Family Service Specialist is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 6 title codes across 2 levels. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.

Case-carrying titles are the largest civilian block in New Jersey government outside clerical work. They run through the Department of Children and Families, Human Services, county welfare and social services boards, and the guardianship and child support programs. The families are usually built as clean numbered ladders because caseload complexity is what separates one rung from the next, not a change of profession. A social work degree is common at the professional levels, though many of the specialist and technician titles admit experience instead.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Supervising Family Service Specialist rungs look like this. Note that the numbers in these titles do not run in pay order. In this family a lower number sits higher on the ladder, which is a New Jersey convention that catches people out when they read a title list top to bottom.

The distance from the bottom of Supervising Family Service Specialist 2 to the top of Supervising Family Service Specialist 1 is $57,804, an increase of about 69% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

Each title in the family carries its own published definition. These are the opening lines of each one, which is usually where the difference between two neighboring rungs is actually stated.

What it takes to qualify

Across the 6 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 6 of them. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.

On how the jobs are filled: 6 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

903 people appear on the state payroll under 2 of these titles, at 1 agency. Children and Families alone accounts for about 100% of them.

  • Children and Families — 903 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $118,678 for Supervising Family Service Specialist 2 up to $130,339 for Supervising Family Service Specialist 1. 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

Hiring for this family runs through state service. Departments, commissions and boards fill these titles from eligible lists built by the Civil Service Commission, so the route in is an announcement and a filing deadline rather than a posting you apply to directly. What state jurisdiction means, and a breakdown of who employs what.

Related titles elsewhere in the plan

These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Supervising Family Service Specialist, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.

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 Supervising Family Service Specialist.

Common questions about Supervising Family Service Specialist jobs

How many separate Supervising Family Service Specialist classifications does New Jersey have?

The Supervising Family Service Specialist family holds 6 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

How much is a Supervising Family Service Specialist paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $83,582 at the bottom of Supervising Family Service Specialist 2 to $141,386 at the top of Supervising Family Service Specialist 1. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.

Is there a civil service test for Supervising Family Service Specialist?

Yes for most of the family. 6 of the 6 titles 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 Supervising Family Service Specialist?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 6 of the 6 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 Supervising Family Service Specialist staff?

State payroll records show 903 people in this family across 1 agency, with Children and Families the largest at 903. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Supervising Family Service Specialist 1 higher or lower than Supervising Family Service Specialist 3?

In this family the lower number is the more senior title. New Jersey's level numbering does not run in pay order, and reading the titles by number alone will give you the ladder upside down. The list above is sorted by what each title actually pays.