Transportation Services Specialist Family
Career series with 4 positions across 4 levels
Transportation Services Specialist is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 4 titles spanning 4 levels.
Entry is typically through Transportation Services Specialist 1, advancing through the ladder toward Transportation Services Specialist 4. 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 7 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Treasury.
Transportation Services Specialist reports to supervising titles such as Assistant Director of Nursing Services and Director of Nursing Services.
Positions in This Family
- TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SPECIALIST 1 (51101) $58,222 - $84,763/year
- TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SPECIALIST 2 (51102) $66,592 - $97,354/year
- TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SPECIALIST 3 (51103) $76,287 - $111,856/year
- TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SPECIALIST 4 (51104) $87,507 - $128,719/year
What the Transportation Services Specialist family covers
Transportation Services Specialist is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 4 title codes across 4 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.
Analyst and planner titles are where New Jersey puts the work of deciding rather than delivering: land use, capital programming, rate setting, program evaluation and policy research. Many exist at the local level because municipal and county planning boards were early adopters of civil service, so the family may hold only local codes even when the same work happens at the state under a different name. The qualification pattern is consistent, a bachelor's degree at entry with experience substituting upward, and the ladders are usually clean numbered progressions.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Transportation Services Specialist rungs look like this. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Transportation Services Specialist 4 — $87,507 to $128,719 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Transportation Services Specialist 3 — $76,287 to $111,856 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Transportation Services Specialist 2 — $66,592 to $97,354 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Transportation Services Specialist 1 — $58,222 to $84,763 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Transportation Services Specialist 1 to the top of Transportation Services Specialist 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.
- Transportation Services Specialist 1: Under the close supervision of a Transportation Services Specialist 3 or 4 or other supervisory official in the Department of Treasury…
- Transportation Services Specialist 2: Under the limited supervision of a Transportation Services Specialist 3 or 4 or other supervisory official in the Department of Treasury, Bureau of…
- Transportation Services Specialist 3: Under the general supervision of a Transportation Services Specialist 4 , or other supervisory official in the Department of Treasury, Bureau of…
- Transportation Services Specialist 4: Under direction of the Chief or other supervisory official in the Department of Treasury, Bureau of Transportation Services or the Department of Law…
What it takes to qualify
Across the 4 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 4 of them. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 4 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 7 people working under 3 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Treasury alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Treasury — 7 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $74,204 for Transportation Services Specialist 1 up to $124,366 for Transportation Services Specialist 4. 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
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Transportation Services Specialist, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Supervisor of Transportation Services ($76,287 to $111,856, state jurisdiction) — in the Supervisor family
- Chief Bureau of Transportation Services — in the Chief family
- Director of Special Transportation Services (local jurisdiction) — in the Director family
- Assistant Coordinator of School Transportation Services (local jurisdiction)
- Realty Specialist 1 Transportation ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction) — in the Realty Specialist family
- Senior Pupil Transportation Specialist ($79,844 to $117,228, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Transportation Services Specialist jobs
How many Transportation Services Specialist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Transportation Services Specialist family holds 4 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Transportation Services Specialist earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $58,222 at the bottom of Transportation Services Specialist 1 to $128,719 at the top of Transportation Services Specialist 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 Transportation Services Specialist?
Yes for most of the family. 4 of the 4 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 Transportation Services Specialist need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 4 of the 4 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 Transportation Services Specialist staff?
State payroll records show 7 people in this family across 1 agency, with Treasury the largest at 7. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.