TROOPER 2
Members of the State Police are enlisted, not hired in the ordinary sense. Recruits are appointed by the Superintendent, complete the academy at Sea Girt, and are sworn as troopers; the numeral marks a grade within the trooper rank rather than a different job.
The Division sits outside the classified service and runs its own selection under Title 53. The Commission carries the rank names in its title list because State Police members are on the State payroll, but it holds no examination and publishes no specification for any of them.
What the official title list records
- Class of service: Unclassified
- Work week: Non-Exempt
- Salary code: T18
Related titles that do have a published specification
- TROOPER 1 · 31861
Career Family: TROOPER
How to apply
This title is not filled by examination — agencies appoint directly.
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See where to apply for this title →Pay ladder: Trooper series
- Trooper 2 — $82,797 – $114,382 (this title)
- Trooper 1 — $86,569 – $131,815
Promoting to Trooper 1 raises the top of the band by about $17,434. Its top salary lands around the 62nd percentile of all NJ civil service titles that publish a range.
Rungs are ordered by FY2027 pay. NJ level numbers are not always sequential, so ordering follows salary rather than the title number.
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.