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N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.2 Job evaluation: State service

N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.2, Job evaluation: State service. Each new job title shall be evaluated, and existing job titles reevaluated, based upon the New Jersey Job Content Evaluation System as approved by the Chair Full text with 1 recorded amendment, 2 citing decisions.

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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

The arithmetic turning a class code into a salary range, and it depends on the workweek code. Every new State title is evaluated under the New Jersey Job Content Evaluation System and given a class code, and existing titles are reevaluated the same way. The class code is not the salary range. For NL and NE titles the range equals the class code. For 35 hour and 3E titles it sits one range lower. For 40 hour, 4E and N4 titles it sits one range higher. For 10 month titles it sits three ranges lower. The example printed in the rule: class code 18 becomes range 18 for NL and NE, 17 for 35 and 3E, 19 for 40, 4E and N4, and 15 for a 10 month title. The Chairperson may instead designate a title no-range, meaning no class code at all, or assign it a single rate, and may attach restrictions to salary payments for such titles.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.2. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

(a) Each new job title shall be evaluated, and existing job titles reevaluated, based upon the New Jersey Job Content Evaluation System as approved by the Chairperson or designee. Class codes shall be designated for job titles through this evaluation process. However, the Chairperson or designee may, in appropriate circumstances, designate a job title as no-range, meaning that no class code is designated, or may assign a single rate, and may include restrictions on salary payments for such titles. #

(b) Once the class code for a job title is designated, the salary range shall be determined according to workweek and work year as follows (see N.J.A.C. 4A:6-2.2 and 2.3 for designation of workweek): #

1. The salary range for NL and NE titles shall be the same as the class code; #

2. The salary range for 35 hour and 3E titles shall be one range lower than the class code; #

3. The salary range for 40 hour, 4E and N4 titles shall be one range higher than the class code; #

4. The salary range for 10 month titles shall be three ranges lower than the class code. EXAMPLE: A job title has been designated class code 18 through the evaluation process. The salary range will be determined based on work week and work year as follows: Work Year NL, NE 18 35, 3E 17 40, 4E, N4 19 Work Year 10 Month (NL or NE) 15 #

(c) For use of class codes in determining types of pay adjustments, see N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.7. #

Amendment history

Rule numbers, effective dates and New Jersey Register citations as published. 1 recorded change.

  1. AmendedR.2017 d.100
    48 N.J.R. 2653(a); 49 N.J.R. 1182(a)

How this rule has been applied

2 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.2. 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.

Superior Court (1)
  • State v. Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO285 N.J.Super. 541; 667 A.2d 1070
Civil Service Commission final determinations (1)
  • In re Reeves, Dep't of Human Servs., CSC Dkt. No. 2015-5882015 N.J. CSC LEXIS 402

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