Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Christopher Mercardo

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2020

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Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Suspended 15 days

Rank as reported: Senior Corrections Officer
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Senior Corrections Officer Christopher Mercardo received a 15-day suspension from the Department Of Corrections in 2020 for an attendance violation, fourth offense. Mercardo was not terminated or demoted. The agency reported no other sanction in the record.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Attendance violation 4th offense

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $114,697
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 20 years, 2 months

How to read this

The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2966. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 216034, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩