Election Clerk
- Required experience: No experience needed.
- Work time: Work election day, November 8, from 6AM to 7PM (minimum 13 hours) or until relieved from duty by the Presiding Judge.
- Training: A paid training is required and provided by the Election Administrator's Office.
- Pay: $17 per hour.
- Duties: Greet voters, manage lines outside, and monitor the last voter in line; check IDs and registration status; sanitize equipment; or perform duties as requested by the Presiding Judge.
- Election workers must be registered to vote in Harris County.
Apply to Become an Election Clerk
*Include your name, address, phone number and whether you have any experience working as a clerk or judge in a previous election.
High School students between the ages of 16-17 may apply to become student election workers. For more details and to sign up, please click here.

Presiding/Alternate Judges
- Required experience: Some election work experience preferred.
- Work time: Work election day, November 8, from 6 AM until the polling location closes (minimum 13 hours).
- Training: A paid training is required and provided by the Election Administrator's Office.
- Pay: $20 per hour, $17/hr for alternate judges.
- Duties: Open and close polling location. Recruit staff to work with them at location. Oversee polling location operation. Responsible for handling all voting concerns and/or questions. Responsible for picking up and dropping off supplies needed to execute election location activities.
*Include your name, address, phone number and whether you have any experience working as a clerk or judge in a previous election.
ALL ELECTION WORKERS NEED TO BE REGISTERED TO VOTE IN HARRIS COUNTY.
*To be hired, you will need to submit an Employment Eligibility Verification (I-9). Compensation will be paid within two to three weeks by direct deposit into checking account. There will be no cash payment or no checks. Travel time to assigned location will not be paid. All people who are paid will be employees of A1 Employee Personnel, assigned to the county.