NJ Civil Service Navigator

N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.8 Lateral pay adjustments: State service

N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.8, Lateral pay adjustments: State service. A lateral pay adjustment occurs when an employee moves to a title having the same class code. An employee affected by such lateral pay adjustment shall not Full text with 2 recorded amendments, 1 citing decision, cited by 3 other rules.

Classification, Services, and Compensation · Compensation

Current through New Jersey Register, Vol. 58 No. 14, July 20, 2026. Reviewed as of July 26, 2026.

This is an annotated mirror, not the official publication. Verify against the Civil Service Commission before relying on it.

In plain language

Same step, different money. A lateral pay adjustment happens when an employee moves to a title carrying the same class code, and the rule places them on the same numbered step in the new title range as the step they occupied in the old one. The anniversary date does not move. Because a salary range is derived from the class code together with the workweek code, a lateral move that changes the workweek changes the range and therefore the dollars. The worked example in the rule takes someone on step four of range A10 in a 35 hour title to a 40 hour title at the same class code, landing them on step four of range A12 and a larger salary. That employee has not been promoted. Where the old salary sat between steps, the extra amount is converted to a percentage of the old increment and reapplied as the same percentage of the new one.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.8. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

(a) A lateral pay adjustment occurs when an employee moves to a title having the same class code. An employee affected by such lateral pay adjustment shall not be considered to have been promoted or demoted, even if actual salary changes. #

(b) Employees affected by a lateral pay adjustment shall have their pay adjusted to the same step in the salary range of the new title as that step at which they were paid in the salary range of the former title. The employee's anniversary date shall not be changed. EXAMPLE: An employee currently on step four, salary range A10 ($ 35,949.31), in a 35-hour workweek title (class code 11), is appointed to a 40-hour workweek title in class code 11. The new salary range will be A12, and the employee will be placed on step four ($ 39,218.13). NOTE: Salaries effective July 12, 2014. #

(c) When a workweek change occurs for an employee whose salary is between steps of the range, the following calculation shall be made to accommodate the workweek adjustment. Divide the amount of extra salary by the amount of the increment of the employee's current salary range. This will provide a percentage of the current increment represented by the extra salary. Adjust the employee's salary to the new range at the same step. Calculate the amount of extra salary by applying the percentage arrived at above to the increment of the new range. #

Amendment history

Rule numbers, effective dates and New Jersey Register citations as published. 2 recorded changes.

  1. AmendedR.2017 d.100
    48 N.J.R. 2653(a); 49 N.J.R. 1182(a)
  2. AmendedR.1993 d.424
    25 N.J.R. 1916(a); 25 N.J.R. 4064(a)

How this rule has been applied

1 decision has cited N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.8. 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 (1)
  • In re Reeves, Dep't of Human Servs., CSC Dkt. No. 2015-5882015 N.J. CSC LEXIS 402

Rules that point here

Elsewhere in Compensation