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N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.7 Determining types of pay adjustments: State service

N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.7, Determining types of pay adjustments: State service. When an employee moves to a different title, including a change in workweek and/or work year, the type of pay adjustment shall be determined according to class Full text with 1 citing decision, cited by 1 other rule.

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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

A four-line table that routes everything else in this subchapter. When an employee moves to a different title, including a move that only changes the workweek or the work year, the class code decides which pay rule applies. The same class code makes it a lateral adjustment. A higher class code makes it an advancement, the category covering promotion, upward title reevaluation and other advancements. A lower class code splits in two, one rule for demotion and another for downward title reevaluation. Notice what is being compared. It is class codes, not salary ranges and not actual dollars, which is how a move can raise the pay and still count as lateral.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.7. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

When an employee moves to a different title, including a change in workweek and/or work year, the type of pay adjustment shall be determined according to class code change as follows:

Compared to Old

Class Code of New Title Type of

Applicable Section

Title

Pay Adjustment

Same

Lateral

N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.8

Higher

Promotion, upward title

N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.9

reevaluation, and other advancements

Lower

Demotion

N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.10

Downward title reevaluation

N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.11

How this rule has been applied

1 decision has cited N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.7. 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

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