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    <div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-_________</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2024</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Washington, D.C.&#160; 20549</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;">_________________________</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">FORM S-8</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">UNDER</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Provident Financial Services, Inc.</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Delaware</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">42-1547151</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(State or Other Jurisdiction of</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">Incorporation or Organization)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">239 Washington Street </font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Jersey City, New Jersey 07302</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 8pt;">(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</font><font style="font-weight: bold;"></font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Provident Financial Services, Inc. 2024 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 8pt;">(Full Title of the Plan)</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 8pt;"></font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: center;">Copies to:</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Bennett MacDougall, Esq.</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Marc P. Levy, Esq.</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">D. Max Seltzer, Esq.</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Provident Financial Services, Inc.</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Luse Gorman, PC</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">239 Washington Street</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">5335 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Suite 780</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Jersey City, New Jersey 07302</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Washington, DC 20015-2035</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">(732) 590-9200</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">(202) 274-2000</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">(Name, Address and Telephone</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Number of Agent for Service)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify;">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of &#8220;large
      accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;smaller reporting company&#8221; and &#8220;emerging growth company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:</div>
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            <div>Large accelerated filer &#8999;</div>
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            <div>Accelerated filer &#9744;</div>
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            <div>Non-accelerated filer&#160; &#9744;</div>
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            <div>Smaller reporting company&#9744;</div>
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            <div>Emerging growth company &#9744;</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify;">If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to
      Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. &#9744;</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">PART I.</font><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 72pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font><font style="font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION


        REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Items 1 and 2.</font><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 108pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font><font style="font-weight: bold;">Plan Information; and Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 have been or will be sent or given to participants in the Provident Financial Services, Inc. 2024
      Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;) as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;).</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Such documents are not being filed with the Commission but constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of
      Part II hereof) a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">PART II.</font><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 72pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font><font style="font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION


        REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Item 3.</font><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 72pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font><font style="font-weight: bold;">Incorporation


        of Documents by Reference</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">The following documents previously filed by Provident Financial Services, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
      &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;), are incorporated herein by reference (other than any such documents or portions thereof that are furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form&#160;8-K,&#160;unless otherwise indicated therein, including any exhibits included with such
      Items):</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(a)<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The Company&#8217;s Annual Report on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024007678/pfs-20231231.htm">Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023</a> filed with the Commission on February 28, 2024 (File No. 001-31566), pursuant to Section 13(a) of
      the Exchange Act;</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(b)<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The Company&#8217;s Quarterly Reports on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024018502/pfs-20240331.htm">Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2024</a>, filed with the Commission on April 26, 2024;</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(c)<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The Company&#8217;s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024006663/pfs-20240222.htm">February 23, 2024</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024012935/pfs-20240325.htm">March 25, 2024</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024013790/pfs-20240329.htm">March 29, 2024</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024015965/pfs-20240411.htm">April 12, 2024</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024019189/pfs-20240425.htm">April 30, 2024</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000119312524131296/d799237d8k.htm">May 6, 2024</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000119312524134897/d831620d8k.htm">May 9, 2024</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000119312524136204/d748877d8k.htm">May 10, 2024</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000119312524136926/d808773d8k.htm">May 13, 2024</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000119312524140083/d795517d8k.htm">May 16, 2024</a> and <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000094337424000213/form8k.htm">May 29, 2024</a> (File No. 001-31566); and</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(d)<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The description of the Company&#8217;s common stock contained in the <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000094337402000381/form8a-121202.txt">Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on December 12, 2002</a> (File No. 001-31566), including any subsequent amendments or reports
      filed for the purpose of updating such description.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">All documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date hereof, and prior to the
      filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a
      part thereof from the date of the filing of such documents.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Any statement contained in the documents incorporated, or deemed to be incorporated, by reference herein or therein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
      this Registration Statement and the prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or therein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference herein or therein modifies or
      supersedes such statement.&#160; Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement and the prospectus.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">All information appearing in this Registration Statement and the prospectus is qualified in its entirety by the detailed information, including financial statements, appearing in
      the documents incorporated herein or therein by reference.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 4.&#160; Description of Securities</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Not applicable.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 5.&#160; Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">None.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 6.&#160; Indemnification of Directors and Officers</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Articles TENTH and ELEVENTH of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company set forth circumstances under which directors, officers, employees and agents of the Company may be
      insured or indemnified against liability which they incur in their capacities as such:</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">TENTH:</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">A.<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to
      be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a &#8220;proceeding&#8221;), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a Director or an Officer of the
      Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit
      plan (hereinafter an &#8220;indemnitee&#8221;), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a Director, Officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a Director, Officer, employee or agent, shall be
      indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment
      permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys&#8217; fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or
      penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section C hereof with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification,
      the Corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">B.<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The right to indemnification conferred in Section A of this
      Article TENTH shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an &#8220;advancement of expenses&#8221;); provided, however, that, if the Delaware
      General Corporation Law requires an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a Director of Officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without
      limitation, service to an employee benefit plan), indemnification shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an &#8220;undertaking&#8221;), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall
      ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a &#8220;final adjudication&#8221;) that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Section or otherwise.&#160; The
      rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in Sections A and B of this Article TENTH shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a Director, Officer, employee or agent
      and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee&#8217;s heirs, executors and administrators.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">C.<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>If a claim under Section A or B of this Article TENTH is not
      paid in full by the Corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may
      at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim.&#160; If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the
      terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee also shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit.&#160; In (i) any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the
      indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (ii) in any suit by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Corporation shall be entitled to
      recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that, the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law.&#160; Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors,
      independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of
      conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt;">legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of
      conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit.&#160; In any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or by the Corporation to recover an
      advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Article TENTH or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">D.<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of
      expenses conferred in this Article TENTH shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, the Corporation&#8217;s Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or
      disinterested Directors, or otherwise.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">E.<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to
      protect itself and any Director, Officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power
      to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">F.<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" class="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to
      time by the Board of Directors, grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of the Corporation to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article TENTH with respect to the indemnification and
      advancement of expenses of Directors and Officers of the Corporation.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">ELEVENTH:&#160; A Director of this Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a Director,
      except for liability (i) for any breach of the Director&#8217;s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii)&#160;for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section
      174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the Director derived an improper personal benefit.&#160; If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting
      the personal liability of Directors, then the liability of a Director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph by the stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a Director of the Corporation
      existing at the time of such repeal or modification.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;">Item 7.&#160; Exemption From Registration Claimed.</div>
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Registration No. 333-_________
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2024
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549
_________________________
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Provident Financial Services, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Delaware
42-1547151
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
Incorporation or Organization)
239 Washington Street
Jersey City, New Jersey 07302
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Provident Financial Services, Inc. 2024 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Copies to:
Bennett MacDougall, Esq.
Marc P. Levy, Esq.
EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
D. Max Seltzer, Esq.
Provident Financial Services, Inc.
Luse Gorman, PC
239 Washington Street
5335 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Suite 780
Jersey City, New Jersey 07302
Washington, DC 20015-2035
(732) 590-9200
(202) 274-2000
(Name, Address and Telephone
Number of Agent for Service)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large
      accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
Large accelerated filer ⌧
Accelerated filer ☐
Non-accelerated filer  ☐
Smaller reporting company☐
Emerging growth company ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to
      Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
PART I.
INFORMATION

        REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Items 1 and 2.
Plan Information; and Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information
The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 have been or will be sent or given to participants in the Provident Financial Services, Inc. 2024
      Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan") as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
Such documents are not being filed with the Commission but constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of
      Part II hereof) a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II.
INFORMATION

        REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation

        of Documents by Reference
The following documents previously filed by Provident Financial Services, Inc. (the "Company") with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
      "Exchange Act"), are incorporated herein by reference (other than any such documents or portions thereof that are furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K, unless otherwise indicated therein, including any exhibits included with such
      Items):
(a)
The Company's Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023
filed with the Commission on February 28, 2024 (File No. 001-31566), pursuant to Section 13(a) of
      the Exchange Act;
(b)
The Company's Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2024
, filed with the Commission on April 26, 2024;
(c)
The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on
February 23, 2024
;
March 25, 2024
;
March 29, 2024
;
April 12, 2024
;
April 30, 2024
;
May 6, 2024
;
May 9, 2024
;
May 10, 2024
;
May 13, 2024
;
May 16, 2024
and
May 29, 2024
(File No. 001-31566); and
(d)
The description of the Company's common stock contained in the
Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on December 12, 2002
(File No. 001-31566), including any subsequent amendments or reports
      filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date hereof, and prior to the
      filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a
      part thereof from the date of the filing of such documents.
Any statement contained in the documents incorporated, or deemed to be incorporated, by reference herein or therein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
      this Registration Statement and the prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or therein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference herein or therein modifies or
      supersedes such statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement and the prospectus.
All information appearing in this Registration Statement and the prospectus is qualified in its entirety by the detailed information, including financial statements, appearing in
      the documents incorporated herein or therein by reference.
Item 4.  Description of Securities
Not applicable.
Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
None.
Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Articles TENTH and ELEVENTH of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company set forth circumstances under which directors, officers, employees and agents of the Company may be
      insured or indemnified against liability which they incur in their capacities as such:
TENTH:
A.
Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to
      be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a Director or an Officer of the
      Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit
      plan (hereinafter an "indemnitee"), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a Director, Officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a Director, Officer, employee or agent, shall be
      indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment
      permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or
      penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section C hereof with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification,
      the Corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
B.
The right to indemnification conferred in Section A of this
      Article TENTH shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an "advancement of expenses"); provided, however, that, if the Delaware
      General Corporation Law requires an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a Director of Officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without
      limitation, service to an employee benefit plan), indemnification shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an "undertaking"), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall
      ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a "final adjudication") that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Section or otherwise.  The
      rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in Sections A and B of this Article TENTH shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a Director, Officer, employee or agent
      and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee's heirs, executors and administrators.
C.
If a claim under Section A or B of this Article TENTH is not
      paid in full by the Corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may
      at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim.  If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the
      terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee also shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit.  In (i) any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the
      indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (ii) in any suit by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Corporation shall be entitled to
      recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that, the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law.  Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors,
      independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of
      conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent
legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of
      conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit.  In any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or by the Corporation to recover an
      advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Article TENTH or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.
D.
The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of
      expenses conferred in this Article TENTH shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, the Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or
      disinterested Directors, or otherwise.
E.
The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to
      protect itself and any Director, Officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power
      to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
F.
The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to
      time by the Board of Directors, grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of the Corporation to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article TENTH with respect to the indemnification and
      advancement of expenses of Directors and Officers of the Corporation.
ELEVENTH:  A Director of this Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a Director,
      except for liability (i) for any breach of the Director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section
      174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the Director derived an improper personal benefit.  If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting
      the personal liability of Directors, then the liability of a Director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.
Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph by the stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a Director of the Corporation
      existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
Item 7.  Exemption From Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8.  List of Exhibits.
Regulation S-K
Exhibit Number
Document
4
Form of Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No.
                333-98241) originally filed by the Company under the Securities Act with the Commission on August 16, 2002, and all amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description)
5
Opinion of Luse Gorman, PC
10.1
Provident Financial Services, Inc. 2024 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Appendix A to the proxy
                statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Provident Financial Services, Inc., filed under the Exchange Act on March 15, 2024 (File No. 001-31566))
10.2
Form of Time-Based Restricted Stock Agreement
10.3
Form of Performance Award Agreement
10.4
Form of Restricted Stock Award Agreement for Outside Directors
23.1
Consent of Luse Gorman, PC (contained in Exhibit 5)
23.2
Consent of KPMG LLP (Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for Provident Financial Services, Inc.)
23.3
Consent of KPMG LLP (Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for
              Lakeland Bancorp, Inc.)
24
Power of Attorney (contained on signature page)
107
Filing Fee Table
____________________________________
Item 9.
Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
1.
To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
      being made, a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement:
(i)
to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
      the Securities Act;
(ii)
to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
      after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement. 
      Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
      offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (section 230.424(b)) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering
      price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement;
(iii)
to include any material information with respect to the
      plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;
provided, however, that paragraphs 1(i) and 1(ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by these paragraphs is contained in
      reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Company pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement;
2.
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
      Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof;
3.
To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
      amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering;
4.
That, for purposes of determining any liability under the
      Securities Act, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
      securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof; and
5.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
      Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against
      public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer
      or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the
      opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be
      governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
The Registrant.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
      believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Jersey City, New Jersey, on this 31
st
day of May, 2024.
PROVIDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
By:
/s/ Anthony J. Labozzetta
Anthony J. Labozzetta
President and Chief Executive Officer
(Duly Authorized Representative)
POWER OF ATTORNEY
We, the undersigned directors and officers of Provident Financial Services, Inc. (the "Company") hereby severally constitute and appoint Anthony J. Labozzetta, as our true and
      lawful attorney and agent, to do any and all things in our names in the capacities indicated below which said Anthony J. Labozzetta may deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, and any rules,
      regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with the registration of shares of common stock to be granted and shares of common stock to be issued upon the exercise of stock options to be granted under the 
      Provident Financial Services, Inc. 2024 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan, including specifically, but not limited to, power and authority to sign for us in our names in the capacities indicated below the registration statement and any and all
      amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto; and we hereby approve, ratify and confirm all that said Anthony J. Labozzetta shall do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date
      indicated.
Signatures
Title
Date
/s/ Anthony J. Labozzetta
President, Chief Executive Officer and
May 31, 2024
Anthony J. Labozzetta
Director (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Thomas M. Lyons
Senior Executive Vice President and
May 31, 2024
Thomas M. Lyons
Chief Financial Officer (Principal
Financial Officer)
/s/ Christopher Martin
Executive Chairman
May 31, 2024
Christopher Martin
/s/ Adriano M. Duarte
Executive Vice President and Chief
May 31, 2024
Adriano M. Duarte
Accounting Officer (Principal
Accounting Officer)
Executive Vice Chairman
Thomas J. Shara
/s/ James P. Dunigan
Director
May 31, 2024
James P. Dunigan
/s/ Frank L. Fekete
Director
May 31, 2024
Frank L. Fekete
Director
Brian M. Flynn
/s/ Ursuline F. Foley
Director
May 31, 2024
Ursuline F. Foley
Director
Brian A. Gragnolati
Director
James E. Hanson II
/s/ Matthew K. Harding
Director
May 31, 2024
Matthew K. Harding
/s/ Edward J. Leppert
Director
May 31, 2024
Edward J. Leppert
/s/ Nadine Leslie
Director
May 31, 2024
Nadine Leslie
Director
Robert E. McCracken
/s/ John Pugliese
Director
May 31, 2024
John Pugliese