[Adopted 1-8-1985 by Ord. No. 4944-85; amended in its entirety 8-3-2005 by Ord. No. 6503-05]
[Amended 7-18-2006 by Ord. No. 6601-06; 8-2-2006 by Ord. No. 6603-06; 2-20-2007 by Ord. No. 6646-07; 8-21-2007 by Ord. No. 6681-07; 3-4-2008 by Ord. No. 6723-08; 12-16-2008 by Ord. No. 6784-08; 1-5-2009 by Ord. No. 6788-09; 4-5-2011 by Ord. No. 6942-11; 8-7-2013 by Ord. No. 7113-13; 12-3-2013 by Ord. No. 7126-13; 8-19-2014 by Ord. No. 7177-14; 12-15-2015 by Ord. No. 7263-15; 10-3-2017 by Ord. No. 7410-17; 10-17-2017 by Ord. No. 7414-17; 12-5-2017 by Ord. No. 7417-17; 1-16-2018 by Ord. No. 7422-18; 3-20-2018 by Ord. No. 7438-18; 11-7-2018 by Ord. No. 7484-18; 3-5-2019 by Ord. No. 7503-19; 9-8-2021 by Ord. No. 7677-21; 3-7-2023 by Ord. No. 7804-23; 2-20-2024 by Ord. No. 7885-24; 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 7971-25; 12-16-2025 by Ord. No. 8061-25; 1-20-2026 by Ord. No. 8068-26; 2-17-2026 by Ord. No. 8077-26]
A. 
The offices and employments enumerated herein, other than those created by statute or ordinance, be and the same are hereby created for the proper conduct of the affairs of the City, and the amounts enumerated hereinafter be and they are fixed, granted and ordered paid as regular salaries or wages to the officers and employees now or hereafter in the office or employments enumerated and are not represented by a bargaining unit of municipal employees, which salaries are per year unless otherwise indicated:
Title
Minimum
Maximum
Alternate Public Defender
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$75 per case; $75 per appeal; $5,000 per year
The Alternate Public Defender shall only receive payment on a per-case basis and shall not be entitled to longevity, health and dental benefits, vacation, sick time or any other benefits afforded any other title of the officials and employees not represented by a bargaining unit.
Animal Control Officer (part-time)
$10.42 per hour
$19.78 per hour
Animal Control Officer (part-time on call)
$50 per call
$60 per call
Assistant Zoning Officer (part-time)
New Jersey minimum wage per hour
$33.43 per hour
Attorney, Board of Adjustment
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$13,046.00
Building Maintenance Worker, Recreation Department
$7.15 per hour
$13.13 per hour
Building Maintenance Worker, Recreation Department (part-time)
New Jersey minimum wage per hour
$23.13 per hour
Bus Driver
New Jersey minimum wage per hour
$19.11 per hour
Bus Driver, Recreation
$7.15 per hour
$19.11 per hour
Clerk, Planning Board and Board of Adjustment/Secretary to Zoning Official
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$11,423.77
Clerk, Senior Citizen Program
New Jersey minimum wage per hour
$12.00 per hour
Clerk 1 - Housing Section 8
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$7,500 per annum
Clerk 1 - Office of the Aging
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$5,000 per annum
Clerk 2 Part-Time
$19.71
$33.93
Clerk 3 Part-Time
$21.63
$37.57
Clerk-Typist (part-time)
$9.50 per hour
$14.67 per hour
Clinic Dentist
$5,274.18
$7,551.09
Community Center Supervisor
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$19.11 per hour
Computer Service Technician (part-time)
$21,218.00
$54,636.35
Counsel, Construction Board of Appeals
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$125.00 per meeting
Counsel, Ethics Board
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$125.00 per meeting
Outside research
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$50.00 per hour
Total compensation not to exceed
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$1,500.00
Counsel, Rent Leveling Board
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$125.00 per meeting
Crafts Instructor
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$19.11 per hour
Cultural Arts Center Director (part-time)
$13.39 per hour
$19.11 per hour
Dance Instructor
$9.27 per hour
$17.91 per hour
Delivery Worker (part-time)
$8.76 per hour
$13.13 per hour
Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics
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$2,000.00
Disabled Children Supervisor
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$31.04 per hour
Electric Inspector (part-time)
$25.75 per hour
$33.43 per hour
Elevator Inspector (part-time)
$25.75 per hour
$32.46 per hour
Evening Basketball Director
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$13.13 per hour
Firefighter/EMT (outside employment)*
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$25.00 per hour
Fire Prevention Specialist (part-time)
$14.68 per hour
$27.45 per hour
Fire Subcode Official (part-time)
$25.75 per hour
$33.43 per hour
Geographic Information Systems Specialist (part-time)
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$15,000.00
Gymnastics Instructor
$10.30 per hour
$23.89 per hour
HazMat Coordinator (part-time)
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$2,500.00
Investigator (Part-time)
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$22,260.72
Laborer (part-time)
New Jersey minimum wage per hour
$12.00 per hour
Matron (outside employment)
New Jersey minimum wage per hour
$12.00 per hour
Municipal Coordinator Emergency Management (part-time)
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$1.00
Municipal Court Attendant
$13.91 per hour
$17.85 per hour
Museum Curator
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$19.68 per hour
Music Instructor
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$19.11 per hour
Night Supervisor
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$13.13 per hour
Omnibus Operator (part-time)
New Jersey minimum wage per hour
$16.90 per hour
PACO Public Agency Compliance Officer (Stipend)
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$4,500.00
Parking Enforcement Officer (part-time)
$11.81 per hour
$17.62 per hour
Physical Fitness Instructor
$9.27 per hour
$17.91 per hour
Playground Director
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$13.13 per hour
Plumbing Inspector (part-time)
$25.75 per hour
$33.43 per hour
Police (outside employment - security, nonprofit City-related jobs)*
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$52.00 per hour
Police (outside employment - security)*
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$75.00 per hour
Police (outside duty for road project assistance, City, nonprofit and owner-occupied one- and two-family homes, inclusive of vehicle administrative charge)*
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$85.00 per hour
Police (outside duty for road project assistance)*
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$100.00 per hour
Police vehicle charge
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$20.00 per hour
* In addition to the above rates, the outside contractor shall pay an additional $20 per hour to the City of Clifton as an administrative charge and shall be required to deposit an escrow for the entire estimated fees as determined by the City of Clifton prior to the performance of the service. The above rates may be amended by agreement between the parties. The City reserves the right to reduce the administrative fee for nonprofit groups and the Clifton Board of Education.
Pool Inspector
New Jersey minimum wage per hour
$12.00 per hour
Public Health Physician
$1.00
$900.00
Public Information Assistant (part-time)
$2,500.00
$5,000.00
Recorder Operator (part-time) (Courts)
$9.50 per hour
$13.04 per hour
School Crossing Guard (outside employment)
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$12.36 per hour
School Physician (part-time)
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$1,393.71
Secretary, ABC Board
$2,575.00
$7,642.48
Secretary, Advisory Beautification Committee**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Advisory Committee for Individuals with Disabilities**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Advisory Committee on Civil Rights
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Advisory Historical Commission**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Board of Adjustment
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$2,664.61
Secretary, Board of Health**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Board of Recreation**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Cable Television Committee**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Construction Board of Appeals
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$50.00 per meeting
Secretary/Counsel Planning Board
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$18,025.00 (includes 75 hours of litigation)
Litigation exceeding 75 hours
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$95.00 per hour
Secretary, Environmental Protection Commission**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Hazardous Materials Control Board**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Historic Commission
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Local Assistance Board
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$50.00 per meeting
Secretary, Office of Emergency Management**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Rent Leveling Board
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$125.00 per month
Secretary, Senior Citizen Advisory Committee, CDA**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Secretary, Traffic Safety Council**
$55.00 per meeting
$85.00 per meeting
Senior Clerk Typist (part-time)
$10.89 per hour
$16.90 per hour
Senior Public Information Assistant (part-time)
$5,000.00
$10,000.00
Special Police:
Class II (firearms)
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$40.00 per hour
Class II Supervisor (firearms)
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$43.00 per hour
Court Officer
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$40.00 per hour
Special Police (outside employment)***
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$40.00 per hour
Special Police (outside employment, Board of Education events, inclusive of administrative charge)***
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$60.00 per hour
Special Police, Supervisor (outside employment)***
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$43.00 per hour
*** In addition to the above rates, the outside contractor shall pay an additional $20 per hour to the City of Clifton as an administrative charge and shall be required to deposit an escrow for the entire estimated fees as determined by the City of Clifton prior to the performance of the service. The above rates may be amended by agreement between the parties. The City reserves the right to reduce the administrative fee for nonprofit groups and the Clifton Board of Education.
Sports Clinic Instructor
$9.27 per hour
$17.91 per hour
Sports Official
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$31.64 per game
Supervisor of Building Services (part-time)
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$1,475.85
Tax Search Officer
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$565.00
Tennis Clinic Instructor
New Jersey minimum wage per hour
$17.91 per hour
B. 
The maximum of the positions marked by two asterisks (**) shall be paid to those employees performing work in excess of two hours per month and who have served in said position for a period of five years.
C. 
The City Manager may hire as a part-time position any title that exists in any other ordinance of the City of Clifton at a salary to be determined by prorating the annual salary based upon the full-time salary work week.
[Amended 7-21-2015 by Ord. No. 7226-15]
A. 
Annual salaries shall be paid in equal semimonthly installments. All other wages shall be paid for such period as may be authorized by resolutions adopted from time to time by the governing body.
B. 
Direct deposit.
[Added 5-2-2017 by Ord. No. 7373-17]
(1) 
All permanent employees and elected public officials who receive compensation from the City of Clifton are mandated to have direct deposit of their compensation as of July 1, 2017, in accordance with Chapter 28, P.L. 2013, as defined under N.J.S.A. 52:14-15f(b) (including paperless online pay stubs and W-2s).
(2) 
Seasonal and temporary employees who are employed by the City of Clifton are exempt from the direct deposit mandate.
(3) 
Municipal employees may request, in writing, an exemption from the direct deposit mandate to the City of Clifton's Personnel Director. Such requests will be presented to the City Council within 30 days. The City Council may grant such an exemption by resolution and only for good cause.
A. 
From and after September 1, 2001, any person duly appointed by the Municipal Council to act as City Manager during the absence or disability of the City Manager and/or a vacancy in the position of City Manager shall be compensated for acting as such at a rate of $500 for each five-day work period; provided, however, that such person acts in said capacity of Acting City Manager for a continuous period of time, which period of time shall exceed 20 working days. The Municipal Council shall have the authority to waive the requirement for the 20 days to be continuous in such circumstances as it deems appropriate.
[Amended 10-2-2001 by Ord. No. 6233-01]
B. 
The compensation provided herein for acting as City Manager shall be in addition to the compensation to which such person shall otherwise be entitled but shall not form the basis of any further benefits or compensation as may be provided for elsewhere in this chapter.
A. 
In addition to the compensation herein provided for as regular salaries and wages, the City of Clifton hereby grants and provides that those offices and employment positions that are considered provisional or permanent civil service positions and not designated as part-time, temporary, seasonal classifications or per diem, as set forth in § 99-18 hereinabove shall earn sick leave at the following rate: one day per month of employment, then 1 1/4 days per month thereafter. Each employee shall be permitted to accumulate a total of 15 sick days per year, which days shall be deemed to accumulate year to year if not used. Any leave taken due to illness or injury shall utilize any accumulated sick days pursuant to this subsection. Any officer or employee who shall commence terminal leave as provided herein, which terminal leave shall be a prelude to final retirement, shall be entitled to a terminal leave benefit of 50% of the sick days earned but not taken upon the condition that he elects an ordinary service retirement benefit pursuant to the then-existing New Jersey statutes. The terminal leave benefit due any employee may be paid to said employee in either of the following manners which may be selected by said retiring employee:
(1) 
The total salary due such employee for such terminal leave shall be paid in equal biweekly installments as shown and authorized by the City's regular payrolls, approved for payment during the period of such terminal leave; or
(2) 
The total salary due such employee for such terminal leave shall be paid in a lump-sum payment, with the initial payment in the year in which the employee retires limited to the total salary funds available in the municipal budget during the retirement year. The balance, if any, shall be paid within 60 days after the adoption of the municipal budget in the year following the year of retirement. Any employee selecting the lump-sum method of payment of the terminal leave benefit automatically waives any rights to benefits which may have been or will be negotiated during the year in which he retires.
(3) 
Accumulated sick leave will be subject to the caps and restrictions set forth by New Jersey state statutes including but not limited to N.J.S.A. 11A:6-19.1 and N.J.S.A. 11A:6-19.2 et seq.
[Added 6-8-2022 by Ord. No. 7730-22]
B. 
In the event that any officer or employee, while actively employed by the City, shall decease, then payment for 50% of the accumulated sick leave, which leave shall be earned and accumulated in accordance with Subsection A hereinabove, shall be made to the surviving spouse. In the event that the deceased employee's spouse shall have predeceased said employee, then payment as provided for herein shall be made to the surviving children of said employee, share and share alike.
[Amended 8-3-2005 by Ord. No. 6503-05; 7-18-2006 by Ord. No. 6601-06; 8-21-2007 by Ord. No. 6681-07]
This article shall take effect after final passage and publication as required by law, subject to the stipulation, however, that the aforesaid salaries, compensation and wages as pertaining to fiscal year 2007 shall be payable retroactively from the first day of January 2007 to any officer or employee of the City of Clifton covered by this article who was employed by the City on and after January 1, 1985, and who shall continue to be employed by the City on the effective date of this article.