N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.12 Movement of employees from no-range or single rate titles to titles having salary ranges: State service
N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.12, Movement of employees from no-range or single rate titles to titles having salary ranges: State service. When a title is changed from a no-range or single rate category to a range in the Compensation Plan, or when an employee moves from a no-range title to a ti Full text with 2 r
Current through New Jersey Register, Vol. 58 No. 14, July 20, 2026. Reviewed as of July 26, 2026.
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In plain language
Single rate and no-range titles sit outside the step ladder, so moving into a title that has one needs a conversion rule. Two conditions must be met for the favourable version: the Commission must find that service in the no-range or single rate title gave the employee significant experience and training for the range title, and the employee must have served in the former title for four months or more. Meet both and the salary goes to the step equal to or next above the old rate, with the anniversary date set to the pay period when an increase would have fallen due in the old title. Miss either and the salary is reconstructed as though the employee had been in the range title from the day they entered the no-range one, and it can never come out higher than the no-range salary. A base salary above the new maximum step is red circled. Appointments from a Tentative Title, and appointments to a trainee title, are handled by their own sections.
Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.12. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.
(a) When a title is changed from a no-range or single rate category to a range in the Compensation Plan, or when an employee moves from a no-range title to a title having a salary range, the salary shall be adjusted up to the step in the range that is the same or next higher than the salary of the no range or single rate title and the anniversary date assigned based on the pay period the employee would have been eligible for an increase in the no range or single rate title, providing the following two criteria are met: #
1. The Civil Service Commission finds that service in the no-range title provided the employee with significant experience and training for service in the range title; and #
2. The employee has served in the former title for four months or more. #
(b) When the employee's appointment does not satisfy the conditions in (a) above, salary and anniversary date shall be determined by reconstructing the employee's salary as if the employee had been serving in the range title on the date the employee was appointed to the no-range title, provided, however, that in no event shall the new salary be higher than the salary in the no-range title. #
(c) If the employee's base salary is above the maximum step, the employee will be red circled, that is, remain at that salary until the maximum step of the range is increased to a level at or above the employee's base salary, at which time the employee's salary shall be moved to that maximum step of the range. #
(d) This section shall not apply to employees appointed from a Tentative Title or to a Trainee Title. See N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.14 regarding Trainee Titles and 4A:3-4.15 regarding Tentative Titles. #
Amendment history
Rule numbers, effective dates and New Jersey Register citations as published. 2 recorded changes.
- AmendedR.2017 d.10048 N.J.R. 2653(a); 49 N.J.R. 1182(a)
- AmendedR.1993 d.42425 N.J.R. 1916(a); 25 N.J.R. 4064(a)
How this rule has been applied
3 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.12. The list below is citations to those decisions, not the decisions. We have not written summaries for this section. A citation with no summary is deliberate: we do not paraphrase a decision we have not read. Nothing here is legal advice.
Civil Service Commission final determinations (3)
- In re Hock, Dep't of Human Servs., CSC Docket No. 2019-25422020 N.J. CSC LEXIS 330Docket 2019-2542
- In re McCabe, Dep't of Human Servs., CSC Docket No. 2019-10152019 N.J. CSC LEXIS 146Docket 2019-1015
- In re Craig Conway, Department of Corrections, CSC Docket No. 2010-40192013 N.J. CSC LEXIS 37Docket 2010-4019
This rule points to
- 4A:3-4.14 Movement of employees to trainee titles from titles having higher pay rates: State service
- 4A:3-4.15 Salaries for employees appointed to tentative title positions: State service
Elsewhere in Compensation
- 4A:3-4.1 General provisions
- 4A:3-4.2 Job evaluation: State service
- 4A:3-4.3 Job reevaluation requests and appeals: State service
- 4A:3-4.4 Salary rates for initial appointments: State service
- 4A:3-4.5 Anniversary dates: State service
- 4A:3-4.6 Anniversary date change when employee is in non-pay status: State service
- 4A:3-4.7 Determining types of pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.8 Lateral pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.9 Advancement pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.10 Demotional pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.11 Downward title reevaluation pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.13 Salaries of employees whose annual salaries are not on a step in their salary range: State service
- 4A:3-4.14 Movement of employees to trainee titles from titles having higher pay rates: State service
- 4A:3-4.15 Salaries for employees appointed to tentative title positions: State service
- 4A:3-4.16 Salaries of employees on military leave during a trainee period: State service
- 4A:3-4.17 Salaries and anniversary dates for employees appointed from a special reemployment list: State service
- 4A:3-4.18 Salaries and anniversary dates for employees appointed from a regular reemployment list: State service
- 4A:3-4.19 Other forms of compensation: State service
- 4A:3-4.20 Retroactive pay: State service
- 4A:3-4.21 Salary overpayments: State service