Training Technician Family
Career series with 8 positions across 4 levels
Training Technician is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 8 titles spanning 4 levels.
Entry is typically through Training Technician 1, advancing through the ladder toward Training Technician 4 and, from there, into supervisory roles. Pay across the family spans $58,222 to $128,719, around the 54th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 47 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Children and Families.
Training Technician reports to supervising titles such as Senior Laboratory Technician and Principal Laboratory Technician.
Positions in This Family
- SENIOR TRAINING TECHNICIAN (05614)
- TRAINING TECHNICIAN 1 (63562) $58,222 - $84,763/year
- TRAINING TECHNICIAN 2 (63563) $66,592 - $97,354/year
- TRAINING TECHNICIAN 3 (63564) $76,287 - $111,856/year
- TRAINING TECHNICIAN 4 (63569) $87,507 - $128,719/year
- TRAINING TECHNICIAN 3 (63571) $79,844 - $117,228/year
- TRAINING TECHNICIAN 1 (63577) $60,876 - $88,743/year
- TRAINING TECHNICIAN 2 (63578) $69,668 - $101,951/year
What the Training Technician family covers
Training Technician is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 8 title codes across 4 levels. The family straddles jurisdictions: 7 state and 1 local, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.
Personnel titles administer the system this site documents: they run the exams, maintain the eligible lists, classify positions and handle the layoff and grievance machinery. That gives them an unusual footprint, since every department needs the function and the Civil Service Commission sets the rules for all of them. Training, affirmative action and equal employment titles sit in the same neighborhood. Local jurisdictions that have adopted Title 11A hire their own versions, which is why several of these families carry local as well as state codes.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Training Technician rungs look like this. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Training Technician 4 — $87,507 to $128,719 (a master's degree and 3 years of experience)
- Training Technician 3 — $79,844 to $117,228 (a master's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Training Technician 3 — $76,287 to $111,856 (a master's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Training Technician 2 — $69,668 to $101,951 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Training Technician 2 — $66,592 to $97,354 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Training Technician 1 — $60,876 to $88,743 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Training Technician 1 — $58,222 to $84,763 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Training Technician 1 to the top of Training Technician 4 is $70,497, an increase of about 121% 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.
- Senior Training Technician: Under direction, assists with planning, development, and administration of a designated portion of the employee development training program; does other…
- Training Technician 1: Under the close supervision of a Training Technician 3 or 4, or other supervisory official in a State department, institution, or agency outside of the Civil…
- Training Technician 2: Under the limited supervision of a Training Technician 3 or 4, or other supervisory official in a State department, institution, or agency outside of the Civil…
- Training Technician 3: Under the general supervision of a Training Technician 4, or other higher level supervisory official in a State department, institution, or agency outside of the…
- Training Technician 4: Under the direction of an Administrative official in a State department, institution, or agency outside of the Civil Service Commission, supervises the activities…
What it takes to qualify
Across the 8 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 8 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: 8 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 47 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 10 agencies. Children and Families alone accounts for about 30% of them.
- Children and Families — 14 employees
- Human Services — 10 employees
- Law and Public Safety — 8 employees
- Health and Senior Services — 7 employees
- Transportation — 2 employees
- Motor Vehicle Commission — 2 employees
Those are the 6 largest of 10 agencies employing this family.
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $77,665 for Training Technician 1 up to $82,908 for Training Technician 2. 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
Because the family mixes jurisdictions, the answer to "who hires this" depends on the specific code. State codes run through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process; local codes are hired by the counties, municipalities and authorities that adopted civil service under Title 11A. Check an employer's status before assuming a title is available where you live.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Training Technician, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Training Technician (local jurisdiction)
- Cottage Training Technician ($44,260 to $63,811, state jurisdiction)
- Senior Cottage Training Technician ($46,215 to $66,786, state jurisdiction)
- Training Technician Computer Technology ($58,222 to $84,763, both state and local jurisdiction)
- Supervising Training Technician Computer Technology ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction)
- Training Technician Bilingual in Spanish and English (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Training Technician jobs
How many Training Technician titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Training Technician family holds 8 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Training Technician earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $58,222 at the bottom of Training Technician 1 to $128,719 at the top of Training Technician 4. 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 Training Technician?
Yes for most of the family. 8 of the 8 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 Training Technician need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 8 of the 8 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 Training Technician staff?
State payroll records show 47 people in this family across 10 agencies, with Children and Families the largest at 14. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.