N.J.A.C. 4A:6-3.3 Computation of payment: State service
N.J.A.C. 4A:6-3.3, Computation of payment: State service. SCOR shall be computed at the rate of one-half the employee's daily rate of pay for each day of earned and unused accumulated sick leave at the effective da Full text with 7 citing decisions, cited by 1 other rule.
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
Fifteen thousand dollars is the ceiling on SCOR for any employee, whatever the sick leave balance says. Below it, the payment is one half the employee's daily rate of pay for each day of earned and unused accumulated sick leave at the effective date of retirement. That daily rate is built from average annual compensation over the last full year of active employment before retirement, with overtime pay, other supplemental pay and periods of leave of absence without pay excluded from the calculation. Two adjustments handle unusual final years. An employee changing from 12 month to 10 month employment during the last year has the average annual compensation weighted accordingly. Ten month employees who received sick leave without proration have their unused accumulated sick leave cut by one-sixth before the calculation runs.
Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:6-3.3. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.
(a) SCOR shall be computed at the rate of one-half the employee's daily rate of pay for each day of earned and unused accumulated sick leave at the effective date of retirement. The daily rate of pay shall be based upon the average annual compensation received during the last full year of active employment prior to the effective date of retirement. #
1. Overtime pay or other supplemental pay shall be excluded from the computation. #
2. Periods of leaves of absence without pay shall be excluded from the computation. #
(b) If an employee changes from 12 month to 10 month employment during the last year of employment, the average annual compensation must be weighted accordingly. #
(c) Ten month employees who have received sick leave without proration shall have their unused accumulated sick leave reduced by one-sixth for purposes of calculating SCOR. #
(d) The maximum amount of SCOR for any employee shall be $ 15,000. #
How this rule has been applied
7 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:6-3.3. 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)
- Matter of Wargo229 N.J.Super. 284; 551 A.2d 205
Civil Service Commission final determinations (6)
- In re Frascella, Div. of Gaming Enforcement, CSC Docket No. 2022-3402021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 505Docket 2022-340
- In re Estavillo, Dep't of Transp., CSC Docket No. 2021-9802021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 202Docket 2021-980
- In re Gary, Judiciary, Vicinage 11, Passaic Cnty., CSC Docket No. 2019-32522020 N.J. CSC LEXIS 262Docket 2019-3252
- In re Edwards, Office of the Pub. Defender, CSC Docket No. 2020-9312019 N.J. CSC LEXIS 1149Docket 2020-931
- In re Queen Williams and Winsome Samuels, Dep't of Human Serv., CSC Dkt. Nos. 2014-1414 and 2014-14152014 N.J. CSC LEXIS 52
- In re Estate of Jeffrey Chiara, Department of Health, CSC Docket No. 2012-13942013 N.J. CSC LEXIS 144Docket 2012-1394