Salaries for all these jobs start at $31,000, with the office manager’s salary reaching $59,480. Descriptions of those positions and other details are available through the bureau’s regional Web site, www.census.gov/detroit. Call (866) 861-2010 to schedule a management test and for more information.
This is one of 13 new offices planned in the state for the 2010 Census, each of which will employ 800 to 1,000 office and field employees at the peak of the effort, according to Kim Hunter, media coordinator for the Census Bureau.
These temporary jobs will be hiring over the course of the year and in early 2010.
Most of the workers will be needed to visit homes of people who don’t return mailed questionnaires, a task Hunter called “very, very labor-intensive.”
The ballpark salary range for those jobs is $15 per hour, he said.
The 2010 census is massive both in size and importance. It is the largest peacetime effort conducted by the federal government, according to census officials. It is the basis for apportionment of seats in the U.S. and state legislatures, and the spending of $300 billion annually in federal funds.
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