According to this story, there are so many initiatives circulating in California now that professional petitions are getting $3 per signature, and sometimes even more. One wonders why more people don’t sign up to do this work.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Richard, Where does one “sign up?” Of course, I don’t live in California, but I can always use some extra cash – Where would a person find out who is hiring petitioners in various places around the country?
Richard, $3 per signature for a statewide petition is not a big deal anymore. Some of the statewide petitions currently circulating in California are paying $4-$5 per signature, and this does not include overrides being paid out on top of this to coordinators.
This highest paying statewide petitions I ever worked on were as follows:
1) $10 per signature, plus expenses (motel, round trip flight, and rental car/2010).
2) $7 per signature, plus some motel money and gas money for travel to state (2006).
3) $6.50 per signature, plus expenses (round trip travel and motel / 2004).
You ought to change the headline of this article, because $3 per signature is not a big deal.
There were two statewide petitions in California that went up to $5.50 per signature way back in 2005, but they only went up that high the last 4 or 5 days they were out.
There was recently a statewide initiative petition in Maine that went up to $10 per signature, plus motel, round trip travel, and rental car, but I did not work on it because I was busy with another project which I had committed to finishing.
There were 3 statewide initiative petitions in California that each paid $3.50 per signature back in 2004.
Also, way back in 1998 in California, they had two statewide initiative petitions that paid $4 per signature each. I did not start petitioning until 2000, but I heard about this from multiple veterans in the petition business.
Also, I heard that way back in 1996, Ross Perot paid $4 per signature plus expenses to petition circulators.
The thing I mentioned above about Perot in 1996 was in Texas.
How and where do I start
Where do I sign up to become a petition circulator for a company?????
Is there any coordinators who set up locations for petitioners high traffic areas I have a couple years experience in city county statewide
I would like to get paid for gathering signaturws.. I will be at North County Womwns March Sat 1-20th all day. I am a progressive democrat so only interested in these causes. Thanks Tara Geraci
I live in the Sacramento area and i like to get paid to gather signatures..