First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$86,164
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$31,286
26.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,135
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Jersey — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$117,450
Kept after tax
$86,164
Worth in national money
$79,135
State rank
2
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Jersey pays this job a middle wage of $117,450, ranking 2 of 49 states and sitting about 50.63% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in New Jersey. It ranks 69 out of 490 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $117,450, tax leaves $86,164 — and because New Jersey is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $79,135 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $122,120, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Jersey's median for first-line supervisors of correctional officers is $117,450, about 50.63% above the national figure and 2 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within New Jersey, first-line supervisors of correctional officers ranks 69 of 490 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After tax, $86,164 remains from the New Jersey median of $117,450 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $79,135 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $122,120 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $105,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $117,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $139,090 |
| This salary | $117,450 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in New Jersey | $86,164 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $91,456 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$14,980 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $109,928 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$20,692 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Jersey earn less than $117,450. The published range is $105,200 up to $139,090, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $86,164 take-home in New Jersey comes from $117,450. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 69 of 490.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $79,135 uses one figure for the whole of New Jersey. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 490 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 69.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of correctional officers in New Jersey the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $105,200 to $139,090. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $86,164, from $117,450, assumes a single New Jersey filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 69 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 2 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $79,135, worked from $117,450, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular New Jersey address, on work sitting at 69 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $122,120, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $105,200 at the tenth percentile, $139,090 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Jersey costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $79,135 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and New Jersey's own levy, $86,164 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in New Jersey is $122,120. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($105,200 to $139,090) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New Jersey rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $79,135 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $86,164 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.