Polling Clerk (wage?)

guitarzero

Was wondering if anyone knows the wage for polling clerk. It has gone down but I think its supposed to be the same as last years. Cheers.

Idjit

guitarzero wrote: »

Was wondering if anyone knows the wage for polling clerk. It has gone down but I think its supposed to be the same as last years. Cheers.

Last year a friend received a few hundred euro for one days work. I'll try find out the exact amount.

Did you receive an offer for a polling clerk job?


EDIT: Friend says he received approx. 260euro (after tax) for 15 hours work.

guitarzero

Yeah, did it a few years back, got around 300 odd. Heard it has gone down since :-/, Thanks :-)

moon55

guitarzero wrote: »

Yeah, did it a few years back, got around 300 odd. Heard it has gone down since :-/, Thanks :-)

Got 266 last year when I done it 340 before tax. Got offered this year again so wud presume its the same.

JTL

How do you apply to do this?

Idjit

JTL wrote: »

How do you apply to do this?

You usually go to the website of your Returning Officer. If people are being offered positions now, it's probably too late at this stage. I applied for them a couple of weeks ago and have gotten no word back so they have probably filled the quota.

FloatingVoter

Jade182 wrote: »

You usually go to the website of your Returning Officer. If people are being offered positions now, it's probably too late at this stage. I applied for them a couple of weeks ago and have gotten no word back so they have probably filled the quota.

Agreed on probably too late but I knocked off an e-mail to the Dublin Registrar of Electors on Saturday on the off chance...

Dear Sir/Madam,



I am writing to inquire if any positions of open as polling clerk in the forthcoming referendums or at any point thereafter.


I can be reached at [email][/email]

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@yahoo.com


Tel:

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Mobile: =======


My home address and voting district is =========
Thanks for your time and attention.

Got this back today.

Dear ....,

Thank you for expressing an interest in a poll staff position for the upcoming referendums on May 22nd. You have included all your details so we will add you to the file now and will be in touch if a vacancy arises.

Regards,
Niamh Hickey
for Dublin City Returning Officer
01 6759015

And yes.....the spelling mistakes in the original are what Saturday morning beers does to a man.

uck51js9zml2yt

I got a call about Dublin only a week before last years elections.
They had left it late. No word yet this year.

fin12

Just got offered a Job today in a polling station in Cork, really happy, first time doing it. Put in my application at the end of April.

uck51js9zml2yt

fin12 wrote: »

Just got offered a Job today in a polling station in Cork, really happy, first time doing it. Put in my application at the end of April.

Did it last year. Its a long day and can be boring if polling station is quiet. Bring everything you need with you as you can't leave.
You get breaks. I got a take away delivered for dinner. It was a good decision.

fin12

Lorelai Most Painkiller wrote: »

Did it last year. Its a long day and can be boring if polling station is quiet. Bring everything you need with you as you can't leave.
You get breaks. I got a take away delivered for dinner. It was a good decision.

Thanks, ya I was wondering about breaks because I am working in a different polling station to the one that I vote in, will I be able to vote that day on my break.

uck51js9zml2yt

You should be able to do a postal vote on site. Maybe call or email your local sheriff.

Also check with the location see if they have a canteen to make a cup of coffee, but bring your own.

fin12

Lorelai Most Painkiller wrote: »

You should be able to do a postal vote on site. Maybe call or email your local sheriff.

Also check with the location see if they have a canteen to make a cup of coffee, but bring your own.

ok Thanks Il just contact my returning officer and ask her about that cause I really want to vote.

cal_chi

Talk about last minute..just got a call there offering me a job as someone had pulled out.. Happy days... Anyone know to what extent it affects SW payments? Will I lose my dole for the day or for the week, given that the pay for the day is more than the entire week's allowance?

uck51js9zml2yt

cal_chi wrote: »

Talk about last minute..just got a call there offering me a job as someone had pulled out.. Happy days... Anyone know to what extent it affects SW payments? Will I my dole for the day or for the week, given that the pay for the day is more than the entire week's allowance?

Congrats.
It depends whether your on JSB or JSA. The latter is means tested so if you earn more than sw that week you may loose it.think a lot depends on the person calculating it.
Were did you get.

I got a call for presiding officer at 530 yesterday and attended training last night.
I'm also counting on Saturday.

cal_chi

I'm in Meath. Ya, on JSA, so will probably lose most if not all of it. Ah well, it's better than nothing.

uck51js9zml2yt

cal_chi wrote: »

I'm in Meath. Ya, on JSA, so will probably lose most if not all of it. Ah well, it's better than nothing.

If you're just claiming for yourself you'll probably loose the week.
You'll pay tax etc but can claim it back prsi is claimable at the end of the year.

Bring a book and everything you need re food and drink as you can't leave the station.

moon55

Hi

I am jobbridge and got the polling clerk job. The social welfare said I can do it but I need to send in wage slip. Do I acutally get a wage slip or what happens or would I get anything as proof of payment?

Thanks

uck51js9zml2yt

moon55 wrote: »

Hi

I am jobbridge and got the polling clerk job. The social welfare said I can do it but I need to send in wage slip. Do I acutally get a wage slip or what happens or would I get anything as proof of payment?

Thanks

It normally takes a few weeks for wages and expenses to be paid. You will get a pay slip as well.

fin12

cal_chi wrote: »

Talk about last minute..just got a call there offering me a job as someone had pulled out.. Happy days... Anyone know to what extent it affects SW payments? Will I lose my dole for the day or for the week, given that the pay for the day is more than the entire week's allowance?

Im on Job seekers allowance and I was told that I will lose a weeks payment.

theenergy

any idea on when payment is made for the recent polling works

cal_chi

theenergy wrote: »

any idea on when payment is made for the recent polling works

Money went into my account last Thursday. No sign of payslip yet though.

theenergy

wow that was quick

were abouts in the country did ya do the polling works... ?

stacy89

was wondering how much you got paid im waiting on my payment and would be good to know thanks

moon55

I got paid 267 today.

moon55

cal_chi wrote: »

Money went into my account last Thursday. No sign of payslip yet though.

Payslip attached to email they sent me about payment.

I got paid 267

uck51js9zml2yt

I was onto the Dublin sheriff's office. Payment by the 12th June.

fin12

I got paid today but didn't yet get an email about payslip, I need the payslip to show the dole office.

fin12

How long after getting paid did people get a payslip?

moon55

I got a payslip attached to the email they sent me informing me of my payment

cal_chi

I got neither notification of having been paid nor payslip, just the money deposited in my account. Seems each constituency is different. Now, why does that not surprise me? <rolleyes>

fin12

cal_chi wrote: »

I got neither notification of having been paid nor payslip, just the money deposited in my account. Seems each constituency is different. Now, why does that not surprise me? <rolleyes>

Ya i know what you mean, I rang my returning officer's office today asking for my payslip and they said they would email it to me, didnt get it by the end of the day, its just annoying cause i dont want to be hassling them, its just I need it for the dole office, I'l probably end up going in there in person tomorrow because I want to go to the dole office tomorrow and I've already been to the office once before because I had to get them to fill in this form for the dole office, they're going to think I'm a right pain in the arse now.

fin12

Got my payslip by email.

fin12

Hey guys I know this is really far away but I'm just wondering if I worked on the referendum in May is there a good chance Il get to work as a poll clerk in the next general election because there has to be a general election by April 2016

uck51js9zml2yt

fin12 wrote: »

Hey guys I know this is really far away but I'm just wondering if I worked on the referendum in May is there a good chance Il get to work as a poll clerk in the next general election because there has to be a general election by April 2016

Apply when its called and say you worked on the last one.

fin12

Lorelai Most Painkiller wrote: »

Apply when its called and say you worked on the last one.

ok thanks.

Mayo4sam14

Does anyone know the rate of pay for the election in two weeks time?

Lard

I did polling clerk in the last referendum and i got net 260.00 . i think i paid 90.00 euro tax .

Daenarys

NB for anyone on Jobseekers doing polling clerk etc. be warned, you'll be means tested and you will be docked a weeks payment because you're not allowed earn that much in one day.

Plus they hound you (my local office did!) for your payslips and p45 from your one day of work and that takes forever to get it out of the returning officer.

fin12

Ya but it's still worth doing it when ur on jobseekers, I got docked a full week last year which is only fair and nothing more so I actually earned more money than they docked.

fin12

Lard wrote: »

I did polling clerk in the last referendum and i got net 260.00 . i think i paid 90.00 euro tax .

Did u not get ur tax back? What I do is register with revenue before you get paid, get the employer registration number from the sheriffs office and give it to revenue say you will be working as a poll clerk and will be getting payed, that way u avoid emergency tax, I paid like under a tenner in tax last time.

Wanderer2010

I thought the only way to get this job is if your father/mother before you, who was usually a teacher, passed on the job to you, and you were in for life. As long as I'm going to my local polling station its always been the same heads decade after decade. I think they should stop teachers who are on a comfortable wage from doing this and instead offer it to local unemployed people.

fin12

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I thought the only way to get this job is if your father/mother before you, who was usually a teacher, passed on the job to you, and you were in for life. As long as I'm going to my local polling station its always been the same heads decade after decade. I think they should stop teachers who are on a comfortable wage from doing this and instead offer it to local unemployed people.

It's not like that anymore, I applied online, don't have any connections to anyone doing polling work and got the job last year, I was unemployed as well at the time last year so they were giving preference to unemployed, u will have the poll clerk job for as long as u want as long as u are also available to do a referendum and election, if u miss one ur gone.... I think the counting is a lot harder to get into, I asked in the sheriffs office how to apply to do the count and they couldn't really give any information, just said if they heard something they'd let me know.

Daenarys

fin12 wrote: »

Did u not get ur tax back? What I do is register with revenue before you get paid, get the employer registration number from the sheriffs office and give it to revenue say you will be working as a poll clerk and will be getting payed, that way u avoid emergency tax, I paid like under a tenner in tax last time.

I did all that but still got emergency taxed :rolleyes:

I only came out with about 260 aswell and put it all on my credit card to bring down the debt and thinking I would only be docked a days jobseekers in a few weeks time, but no.....a full entire week was docked. I had zero money to live on that week, had to get a loan from my friend.

The way I saw it was I did a 16hour day for 72euro. I wouldn't have done it, knowing I'd be down 188euro a few weeks later. It's not like there's an election or referendum every bloody week to earn that much in a day like.

You're better off doing it when you're working, days holidays and nice handy earner and you won't lose a weeks wages after it.

fin12

Hey to all fellow Poll Clerks, hope everyone has a great day at work 2morrow.....

uck51js9zml2yt

Im doing presiding offer so up at the crack of dawn tomorrow and again on Saturday for an even longer day/night/day counting......

I have learned that a hot meal is a necessity on the day and have pre-ordered a delivery for 6pm.

MArvin.ie are giving 25% off with the code ABC25.

endacl

fin12 wrote: »

Im on Job seekers allowance and I was told that I will lose a weeks payment.

(266-180)/12=€7.10 per hour or thereabouts.

Hardly worth your while? I'd query this. It's less than the minimum wage. Substantially less for a 14 hour poll, or if polling is extended.

fin12

endacl wrote: »

(266-180)/12=€7.10 per hour or thereabouts.

Hardly worth your while? I'd query this. It's less than the minimum wage. Substantially less for a 14 hour poll, or if polling is extended.

That was last year it was worth my while I got a lot more than my weeks social welfare payment, I'm working full time now so will prop got less this year but I actually really like the job..

fin12

Lorelai Most Painkiller wrote: »

Im doing presiding offer so up at the crack of dawn tomorrow and again on Saturday for an even longer day/night/day counting......

I have learned that a hot meal is a necessity on the day and have pre-ordered a delivery for 6pm.

MArvin.ie are giving 25% off with the code ABC25.

Cool, I asked about doing the count but seems it's hard to get a job for that, do u usually get into that if someone else pulls out?

Daenarys

endacl wrote: »

(266-180)/12=€7.10 per hour or thereabouts.

Hardly worth your while? I'd query this. It's less than the minimum wage. Substantially less for a 14 hour poll, or if polling is extended.

Exactly, I was at my polling station in a very rural area for 16 hours, only the presiding officer and myself to set the place up and take the place down and pack everything securely etc. then wait and wait for the gardai to turn up.

Like I said in my previous post I did the 16 hour shift for 72 euro when I took my jobseekers week off it. Painful.

uck51js9zml2yt

fin12 wrote: »

Cool, I asked about doing the count but seems it's hard to get a job for that, do u usually get into that if someone else pulls out?

I just checked my payslip for last year.
Counting Clerk was 250 for a 20 hour day.
Presiding officer at the polling station was 500.

I've been doing counting since 2012 . I just applied when I heard an election was coming up giving all my details. Name,address, pps phone number and if i had don it before, saying so.

After a few years I also applied for polling clerk and last year for presiding officer. Same job but more money and responsibility. There is also the risk of not being paid if ballots arent stamped correctly and being brought to court if someone feels you handled the vote badly.

This year, I just got a call from the office for both positions.