N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.18 Salaries and anniversary dates for employees appointed from a regular reemployment list: State service
N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.18, Salaries and anniversary dates for employees appointed from a regular reemployment list: State service. A current State employee who is appointed from a regular reemployment list shall have the salary and anniversary date determined in accordance with N.J.A.C.
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
Set this beside the special reemployment list rule and the difference is discretion. Nothing here is fixed at the most beneficial figure. Someone who has left State employment and is appointed from a regular reemployment list receives an anniversary date based on the new appointment date, and may be paid up to the step they held in their prior permanent title, but only at the request of the appointing authority. Up to means the appointing authority can offer less. A person reappointed to a title other than their prior permanent one may be paid up to the step they would have reached had they been appointed to that title on the date they separated. Someone who is still a State employee when appointed from the list is handled by the ordinary lateral, advancement, demotion and downward reevaluation rules instead, unless the appointing authority asks to use the more generous route. Where the title was reevaluated after separation, the salary is set by reconstruction.
Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.18. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.
(a) A current State employee who is appointed from a regular reemployment list shall have the salary and anniversary date determined in accordance with N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.8 through 4A:3-4.11, as appropriate. If the employee would receive a greater salary under the provisions of (b) below, the appointing authority may request application of those provisions. #
(b) An individual not currently employed by the State who is appointed from a regular reemployment list shall receive an anniversary date based on the new date of appointment and, at the request of the appointing authority, be paid: #
1. When re-appointed to the prior permanent title, up to the same step in the salary range which the employee was receiving in that title; or, if the employee was serving in an unclassified title or provisionally in another title at the time of the separation, up to the same step in the salary range which the employee would have received had the employee been returned to his or her permanent title on the date of the separation. #
2. When reappointed to a title other than the prior permanent title, up to the same step in the salary range which the employee would have received if the employee had been appointed to the title on the date of the separation. #
(c) When an employee has been reappointed to a title which has been reevaluated since the separation, the employee's salary shall be set up to an amount determined by reconstruction. See N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.10. #
This rule points to
- 4A:3-4.10 Demotional pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.11 Downward title reevaluation pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.8 Lateral pay adjustments: 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:3-4.12 Movement of employees from no-range or single rate titles to titles having salary ranges: 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:3-4.19 Other forms of compensation: State service
- 4A:3-4.20 Retroactive pay: State service
- 4A:3-4.21 Salary overpayments: State service