COMMISSIONER (Local)
A handful of New Jersey municipalities still run under the commission form adopted through the Walsh Act. Voters elect three or five commissioners at large, and the board then divides the town's work among themselves, each commissioner taking a department to head. Legislative and executive power sit in the same few hands, which is the feature that distinguishes the form.
The office is elected, so nothing about it can be examined. County boards and State bodies also use "commissioner" for their appointed members, and the Commission carries the bare word as a title code without saying which is meant.
Related titles that do have a published specification
- AIDE TO COUNTY COMMISSIONER · 04771
- ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER · 99985
- ASSISTANT INSURANCE COMMISSIONER · 55003
- COMMISSIONER · 59809
- COMMISSIONER, CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION · 98799
- DEPUTY COMMISSIONER · 59801
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Commissioner appears on the State payroll at 9 departments, most of them at Department of Human Services.
State departments
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Where this title is used
Commissioner is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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Who employs this title
State payroll records show 11 people working under this title. The median actual salary is $210,000. The agencies employing the most are:
- Human Services (2)
- Transportation (2)
- Banking and Insurance (1)
- Corrections (1)
Counts from NJ YourMoney agency payroll. See statewide workforce analytics.
Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator.
Definition
The Civil Service Commission lists this title code but publishes no job specification for it. The classification shown here comes from the official title list, which is the only record CSC publishes for this code.