Quick answer: No, New Jersey co-executors don't each collect a full, separate commission. N.J.S.A. 3B:18-14 adds "1% of all corpus for each additional fiduciary" to the aggregate pool — a modest bump, not a multiplication — and caps it so "no one fiduciary shall be entitled to any greater commission than that which would be allowed if there were but one fiduciary involved." Estimate the underlying commission first, including the extra-fiduciary line, with the New Jersey executor fee calculator.
The rule: additive, not multiplied
The individual cap: no one exceeds the sole-fiduciary amount
Even though the aggregate pool grows with each additional fiduciary, the statute is explicit that no single person serving can walk away with more than a sole executor would have received for administering the same estate alone. The extra 1% increments exist to be shared, not to inflate any one person's individual take beyond that ceiling.
The +1% is tied to corpus, not income
Why New Jersey structures it this way
Unlike Florida's per-person full-commission model for larger estates, or New York's tiered up-to-three-full-commissions approach, New Jersey's additive-and-capped structure keeps the total cost of multiple fiduciaries close to what a single fiduciary would have cost, while still giving each additional person administering the estate some share of a slightly larger pool.
Worked example
Two siblings serve as co-executors of a New Jersey estate with a $500,000 corpus, no significant income.
| Scenario | Corpus commission |
|---|---|
| Sole executor | $20,500 |
| Two co-executors (aggregate pool) | $25,500 |
The $5,000 difference is exactly 1% of the $500,000 corpus — the additional-fiduciary allowance for the second executor. That $25,500 pool is then shared between the two co-executors, with neither individually exceeding the $20,500 a sole executor would have received.
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