NJ Government Org Chart Builder
Build organizational charts using NJ civil service job titles. Pre-built templates for corrections, health, public works, courts, and municipal government.
Build NJ Government Org Charts
The Org Chart Builder lets you create organizational charts using official NJ civil service job titles. Start from a blank chart or use one of the pre-built department templates populated with actual civil service positions.
Available Templates
- Corrections Facility — Warden, Assistant Wardens, Captains, Officers
- Human Services Office — Director, Supervisors, Caseworkers
- Health Department — Health Officer, Supervisors, Inspectors, Nurses
- Public Works Department — Director, Crew Leaders, Maintenance Workers
- Municipal Administration — Administrator, Department Heads, Staff
- Court / Judiciary — Court Executive, Supervisors, Clerks
Charts can be exported and saved locally. Search job specifications to find titles for your organization.
What the builder puts on the canvas
The sidebar holds the same catalogue as the site's title search: 6,740 title records the Civil Service Commission publishes, of which 5,689 have an actual specification document behind them. Search by title or by code, narrow by jurisdiction, class of service, work week or salary range, then drag a title onto the canvas. The box that lands keeps all of that attached to it, which is why the same filters work a second time on the canvas itself. Switch the canvas to state titles and every local position fades back without being deleted.
Drawing a line from one box to another is what creates a reporting line, and the layout redraws itself from the top down after each one. Charts are held in your browser and save themselves while you work, so nothing is submitted anywhere and nothing leaves the machine until you export. The export is a PDF, a PNG or a JSON file. The PDF can carry a cost estimate with it: choose a salary step and a schedule year, and it prices every box that has a range at that step and adds an estimated employer pension cost. Keep the JSON if you want to reopen the chart somewhere else, since it is the only format that comes back in.
The New Jersey department templates
The department templates load a whole structure at once, so you start by editing something instead of staring at an empty page. Each one models how that kind of office is usually arranged in New Jersey.
| Template | The shape it loads | Where it fits |
|---|---|---|
| Corrections facility | A facility administrator, assistant administrators under them, captains under those, and officers at the base. | State prisons, county jails and detention centers. |
| Human services office | A division director over supervising family service specialists, each of whom has caseworkers beneath them. | County welfare agencies and family service offices. |
| Health department | A health officer splitting into an environmental branch under a supervising sanitarian and a nursing branch under a supervising public health nurse. | Local boards of health and public clinics. |
| Public works | A director over public works supervisors, with crew leaders, equipment operators and laborers below them. | Municipal and county public works, roads and utilities. |
| Court or judiciary office | A court executive with a court clerk branch on one side and probation on the other under a chief probation officer. | Vicinage court administration and probation offices. |
| School district administration | A superintendent over an assistant superintendent and a business administrator, splitting again into curriculum, special education, purchasing and accounting. | Boards of education and district central offices. |
| Parks and recreation | A director over a recreation supervisor and a parks maintenance supervisor, with program staff and grounds staff under each. | County and municipal parks and recreation departments. |
| Municipal administration | A municipal administrator over the clerk, the chief financial officer and the tax collector, each carrying their own clerical staff. | Borough, township and city halls. |
There are plainer shapes alongside these with no titles attached: a flat team under one manager, a pyramid, a matrix with two reporting lines into the same position, and an empty canvas.
A template is a shape, not a roster. Confirm each box against the sidebar entry for the same title code before you rely on it. The title a state department uses is frequently not the title a municipality uses for the same work, and a box whose code no longer matches a current record arrives as plain text, with no jurisdiction or salary range behind it.
A chart of titles is not a chart of people
This is the distinction that catches people out. A civil service title is a classification, not a seat. Account clerk is a single title code, and every local employer in the state that appoints an account clerk appoints into that same code. A box on the canvas therefore means "a position classified this way", and two boxes carrying the same title are not a mistake to be cleaned up. If you want the chart to name people, the properties panel takes a name, a department and notes for each box, and those stay in your copy of the chart rather than in the title data.
It follows that the chart's own statistics count boxes. Positions, reporting lines and hierarchy levels are counts of what you drew. They are not a headcount, and they will not match a payroll report. A title also tells you less about the work the further up an organization you go: the 1,198 titles in the unclassified service are appointed and removable at will, and several of them are broad by design, so a box labelled with one of those describes an appointment more than it describes a job.
How a New Jersey title carries its rank
Two conventions do most of the work, and the second one is the reason to check rather than assume. The first is a prefix. Account clerk, senior account clerk, principal account clerk and supervising account clerk are four separate title codes inside one series, and the prefix is the only thing separating them. Assistant, chief, head and lead behave the same way. If you are building a chart and cannot find the supervisory title you want, find the base title first and then look for its prefixed relatives, which is what a title family page collects.
The second convention is a number after the title, and it runs in both directions. Geologist goes the way you would expect, with geologist 1 at the bottom of the series and geologist 4 at the top. Food service supervisor goes the other way: food service supervisor 1 is the senior title, food service supervisor 4 is the junior one, and there is no food service supervisor 3 published at all. Neither pattern is rare. That is why this site orders a family by what the salary schedule pays rather than by the number printed in the title, and it is worth doing the same before you decide which box sits on top.
What the chart cannot tell you
It does not know your agency's reporting lines, and the data underneath it does not either. A job specification defines duties, minimum requirements and the class of service. It is silent on who a position reports to, because reporting structure is an employer's decision rather than a classification. Every line you draw is your assertion about your own organization. That is the honest arrangement for a planning tool, and it is worth saying out loud before anyone treats an exported PDF as an official structure.
Pay is the other limit. A salary range on a box is the range the title occupies on the state schedule, not what any person earns, and most local titles carry no range at all, since local pay is set by ordinance or by a contract rather than by a statewide schedule. The compensation compendium covers what a range means and which schedule it belongs to. The chart's built-in check is structural only. It flags boxes you left unconnected, a reporting loop where a position ends up reporting to itself, and a manager carrying more direct reports than it treats as reasonable. It cannot tell you whether a structure is permitted, funded or approved by anyone.