PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS SPECIALIST 1
The Public Employment Relations Commission is where New Jersey's public sector labour disputes land: deciding which employees belong in a negotiating unit, running representation elections, hearing unfair practice charges, and supplying the mediators, factfinders and interest arbitrators who take over when a contract stalls.
Specialists carry that work. The title is unclassified and PERC appoints its own staff, which fits an agency whose people act as neutrals between public employers and the unions across from them.
What the official title list records
- Class of service: Unclassified
- Work week: No Limit
- Salary code: Y34
Career Family: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS SPECIALIST
How to apply
This title is not filled by examination — agencies appoint directly.
See every real route in, and where to apply. We don't track live vacancies.
See where to apply for this title →Pay ladder: Public Employment Relations Specialist series
- Public Employment Relations Specialist 3 — $95,955 – $141,386
- Public Employment Relations Specialist 2 — $105,267 – $155,359
- Public Employment Relations Specialist 1 — $121,055 – $179,046 (this title)
Its top salary lands around the 98th 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.