New Jersey state employee salaries

New Jersey’s state payroll, 2025

78,236

Employees

On the payroll in the 2025 fourth-quarter release, one per person.

$77,701

Median pay

Year-to-date pay for 2025, over the 77,410 paid.

$6.3 billion

Total payroll

$6,271,741,796

Regular pay $5.7 billion, other pay $186.1 million.

$413.0 million

Overtime

$412,978,405

Paid to 25,868 employees.

24,96431.9% of employees

Paid $100,000 or more

In 2025, across every department that paid them.

75,135

So far in 2026

People on the payroll in the January–June 2026 release, paid $3.3 billion so far. Part of a year, never set against a whole one.

The middle half of the 77,410 paid in 2025 received $50,459 to $109,823; a tenth received more than $140,040.

What stands out

Six findings. From the Treasury's YourMoney Agency Payroll, whole years only, each one a row from a query.

• New Jersey's state agencies had 78,236 people on the payroll in 2025, 12.8% fewer than the 89,687 in 2010. Headcount →

  A person is counted once a year, in the fourth-quarter release, whatever part of the year they were paid for.

• The State paid them $6.3 billion in 2025, against $5.1 billion in 2010, in each year's dollars. Total pay →

  Not adjusted for inflation.

• Overtime came to $413.0 million in 2025, 6.6% of all pay, against $201.2 million (4.0%) in 2010. Overtime →

• 24,964 of the 78,236 were paid $100,000 or more in 2025, 31.9%; in 2010 it was 6,398, 7.1%. $100,000 or more →

• Law and Public Safety paid the most of any department in 2025: $823.7 million to 8,415 employees. Judiciary had the most employees, 10,452. Law and Public Safety →

• Median pay was $77,701 in 2025, against $55,802 in 2010. Median pay →

  Over the 77,410 people with pay above zero in 2025, and the 89,176 in 2010, in each year's dollars.

Headcount and pay, a whole year at a time

Every department, 2025

The department the State printed on each employee’s record at the end of 2025. Each department’s page lists its people, ranked by what they were paid in the year. 189,304 person pages in all, one per payroll ID the State has published since 2010.

Rankings

• Highest-paid New Jersey state employees, 2025
• New Jersey state employees paid the most overtime, 2025
• New Jersey state departments by employees, 2025
• New Jersey state departments by total pay, 2025

New Jersey elsewhere on the Factbook

• Reported crimeCrime and justice

  Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

• Most dangerous cities in New JerseyCrime and justice

  What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

• Prison populationCrime and justice

  People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

• Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

  Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

• Hate crimeCrime and justice

  Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

• Federal obligationsFederal spending

  What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

• Registered nonprofitsNonprofits

  How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

• Payments to doctorsHealth

  What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

• Immigration courtsImmigration and the border

  The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.

• Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

  What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

• Paycheck Protection Program loansPPP loans

  The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

• Public schoolsSchools

  Pupils, schools and teachers, the largest districts, what districts spend per pupil and where the money comes from, and the colleges that take federal student aid.

• Banks and credit unionsBanks and credit unions

  The FDIC-insured banks headquartered in the state and their offices, and the credit unions based there and their sites, each per resident and against every other state.

• Low-income housingLow-income housing

  The homes under HUD’s rental assistance programs in the state, by program and county, and its tax-credit housing, each per resident and against every other state.

• College athleticsSports

  Every college in the state that reported to the Equity in Athletics survey, ranked by its athletics revenue, with its expenses, athletes and athletic aid.

• Federal civilian workforceFederal salaries

  Federal civilian employees stationed in the state by agency and occupation, with the pay OPM publishes and the share it withholds.

• The New Jersey Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

  Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.