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PUBLIC HEALTH CONSULTANT 2 NURSING (P24)

Nursing

Advises rather than treats. Public health nursing consultants work out of the Department of Health, supporting local health agencies, long-term care facilities and school health programmes on communicable disease control, immunisation, and clinical standards.

A competitive title requiring a New Jersey nursing licence with public health experience on top of it, level two being the senior of the pair. Nothing is published against the code.

What the official title list records

  • Class of service: Competitive
  • Work week: No Limit
  • Salary code: P24

Related titles that do have a published specification

Code: 62864H State Competitive Range: P24 (FY 2027) Work week NL: FLSA exemptOvertime table (4A:3, Appx. A)

Career Family: PUBLIC HEALTH CONSULTANT

Salary: $76,286.63 - $111,856.03/year FY 2027 schedule (last updated 2026-07-27)

How to apply

This title is filled by competitive examination.

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Who employs this title

Public Health Consultant 2 Nursing appears on the State payroll at 2 departments, most of them at Department of Health.

State departments

Employer Employees
Department of Health 17
Department of Human Services 1

All agencies.

State payroll and independent authority payroll are separate systems and are never merged. See data sources.

Pay ladder: Public Health Consultant series

  1. Public Health Consultant 2 Nursing — $76,287 – $111,856 (this title)
  2. Public Health Consultant 1 Nursing — $91,628 – $134,900

Promoting to Public Health Consultant 1 Nursing raises the top of the band by about $12,068. Its top salary lands around the 59th percentile of all NJ civil service titles that publish a range.

Rungs are ordered by FY 2027 pay. NJ level numbers are not always sequential, so ordering follows salary rather than the title number.

Who employs this title

State payroll records show 18 people working under this title. The median actual salary is $90,890. The agencies employing the most are:

  • Health and Senior Services (17)
  • Human Services (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.