Veterans Service Officer Family
Career series with 3 positions across 3 levels
Veterans Service Officer is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 3 titles spanning 3 levels.
Entry is typically through Veterans Service Officer 3, advancing through the ladder toward Veterans Service Officer 1. Pay across the family spans $60,876 to $117,228, around the 43rd percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 18 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Unknown.
Veterans Service Officer commonly advances into Food Service Worker (10 - and Fire Officer.
Positions in This Family
- VETERANS SERVICE OFFICER 2 (62344) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- VETERANS SERVICE OFFICER 1 (62345) $79,844 - $117,228/year
- VETERANS SERVICE OFFICER 3 (62353) $60,876 - $88,743/year
What the Veterans Service Officer family covers
Veterans Service Officer covers 3 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.
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
The Veterans Service Officer rungs, listed from the best paid down. 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.
- Veterans Service Officer 1 — $79,844 to $117,228 (a master's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Veterans Service Officer 2 — $69,668 to $101,951 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Veterans Service Officer 3 — $60,876 to $88,743 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Veterans Service Officer 3 to the top of Veterans Service Officer 1 is $56,352, an increase of about 93% 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.
- Veterans Service Officer 2: Under direction of a Veterans' Service Officer 1 or other supervisory official in the Division of Veterans' Loans, Grants, and Services, Department of Veterans…
- Veterans Service Officer 1: Under direction of a supervisory official in the Division of Veterans' Loans, Grants, and Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, supervises the work…
- Veterans Service Officer 3: Under general direction of a supervisory official in the Department of Veterans Affairs, acts as veterans' advocate and is responsible for the development…
Requirements across the family
Across the 3 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 2 of them and a bachelor's degree on 1 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 2 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.
On how the jobs are filled: 3 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 18 people working under 3 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Unknown alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Unknown — 18 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $58,818 for Veterans Service Officer 3 up to $113,264 for Veterans Service Officer 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
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 Veterans Service Officer. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Veterans Service Officer (local jurisdiction)
- Assistant Veterans Service Officer (local jurisdiction)
- Interviewer Veterans Service Bureau (local jurisdiction)
- Interviewer Veterans Service Bureau (local jurisdiction)
- Veterans' Services Officer Trainee ($55,691 to $58,222, state jurisdiction)
- Community Service Officer 3 ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction) — in the Community Service Officer family
Common questions about Veterans Service Officer jobs
How many Veterans Service Officer titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Veterans Service Officer family holds 3 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Veterans Service Officer earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $60,876 at the bottom of Veterans Service Officer 3 to $117,228 at the top of Veterans Service Officer 1. 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 Veterans Service Officer?
Yes for most of the family. 3 of the 3 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 Veterans Service Officer need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 2 of the 3 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 2 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Veterans Service Officer staff?
State payroll records show 18 people in this family across 1 agency, with Unknown the largest at 18. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Veterans Service Officer 1 higher or lower than Veterans Service Officer 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.