New Jersey / Deputy Attorney General
Role across New Jersey
Deputy Attorney General
Enforce laws and maintain public safety — patrol, respond to incidents, investigate crimes, and make arrests.
151 people hold the Deputy Attorney General role across 1 department in New Jersey, with a median total compensation of $111,766. Among 6 jurisdictions where this role is reported, New Jersey ranks #5 by median pay.
- Employees
- 151
- Median pay
- $111,766
- Departments
- 1
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #5 of 6
Compared with the local labor market
Deputy Attorney General pay vs. New Jersey
Across all employers in New Jersey, the median wage for Lawyers — about 23,160 people — is $161,430. New Jersey pays a median base salary of $111,709 for this role, 31% below that figure — about the 22nd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where New Jersey sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Lawyers across every employer in New Jersey, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows New Jersey’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Lawyers — about 754,500 people — is $159,670. New Jersey’s median base salary is 30% below that national figure, about the 29th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the New Jersey range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 143 of 151 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at New Jersey is $111,766, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
Deputy Attorney General pay in other jurisdictions
Where Deputy Attorney Generals are paid most
Median total compensation for comparable Deputy Attorney Generalroles in other jurisdictions (highest first). Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not by identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for this role.