Census collectors

[Bagheera]

I know a census collector were i live Shes getting $2000 for 250 houses

Not to bad hey......... Hmmm if i convert that into something i understand that's a new set of mud tires LOL

I was a Census collector this year as well (~400 houses).

What the job entails:
Full police check
Full day of training on all the relevant legislation, delivery protocol, etc
Delivery of forms to ~400 hours @ average 20 houses per hour (and I was pretty quick for our area) mostly in the evenings and weekends so you can get people at home.
Half day of training for collection
Collect forms from ~150 houses (and 60%+ eCensus returns was pretty high, state average is more like 30-40%)
Revisit houses up to 5 times until the form is collected.

Through all of this you get abused about why I want their personal information - I don't want anything except to deliver a form and then collect it once completed, and get paid for my time.

FWIW none of the information collected is cross-referenced with the ATO, Centrelink, etc. Non-specific metrics are provided to councils, education department, health services, etc for planning purposes. There are significant differences in the data collected by Census vs the data collected by the ATO, Centrelink, Medicare, etc.

The $2000 she earned would be pre-tax.