Census Worker Recruitment Events Coming To Roxborough

ROXBOROUGH, PHILADELPHIA — Census workers in Philadelphia have recently gotten a pay raise, and anyone interested in becoming a census worker can stop by recruitment events in Roxborough next month.

The pay rate for census workers in Philadelphia County has recently been raised, in some cases up to $28 per hour.

Colleen Brazil, a census Recruiting Assistant, will be at area libraries to answer questions or assist interested parties in filling out their applications.

Brazil will be at Andorra Library, located at Cathedral Road and Ridge Avenue, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday Dec. 19. Additionally, she'll be at the library every Thursday in January from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

She will also be at the Roxborough Library, 6245 Ridge Ave., from noon to 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 7.

Available positions are:

• Recruiting Assistant — Assists in recruiting and testing job applicants.
• Census Field Supervisor - Appoints, trains, and supervises Enumerators that are engaged in data collection.
• Office Operations Supervisor — Coordinates, supervises, and oversees the work of office clerks in specific functional areas.
• Enumerator — Locally hired workers who perform field enumeration activities in and around their respective neighborhoods.
• Clerk — Office clerks perform a wide variety of clerical functions in support of field data collection, recruiting, payroll/personnel, automation technology, and quality assurance operations.

Pay for these positions range from $17 to $28 per hour.

You can apply for census positions online here.