New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 4A - CIVIL SERVICE
Chapter 3 - CLASSIFICATION, SERVICES, AND COMPENSATION
Subchapter 4 - COMPENSATION
Section 4A:3-4.4 - Salary rates for initial appointments: State service

(a) An appointing authority may place a new employee at a salary step up to and including the fourth step of the salary range for the employee's title. A new employee, for purposes of this section, is one who has had no immediate prior State service with that appointing authority. See 4A:4-7.4(b) for transfers.

(b) When the employee has separated from another State appointing authority, a State college, Rutgers, the State University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, or the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and has been hired without an interruption in service, the employee may be placed up to and including that step of the salary range that the employee would receive if the employee had been continuously employed in the new agency.

(c) An authorized hiring rate (AHR) is the set salary for initial appointments to particular job titles as established by the Chairperson. When an AHR is established or changed, current employees in such titles whose salaries are below the AHR shall be advanced to the AHR, and current employees in such titles whose salaries are the same as the AHR may be advanced by the Chairperson.