Want to be a contact tracer?

Via the New York Times, this job of our times:

When Jessica Jaramillo calls someone to talk about the coronavirus, she usually starts with something like this: 

“Hi, my name is Jessica. I’m calling on behalf of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. I’m part of a contact-tracing team, and our job is to reach people who have come into close contact with someone who has been diagnosed with Covid-19.” 

Ms. Jaramillo, 41, a San Francisco Public Library district manager in ordinary times, has made dozens of such calls so far, all in Spanish. She began contact tracing, or “seguimiento de contactos,” this month...

Well, how does it pay?

Estimates for the number of people needed nationwide for contact tracing range from 100,000 to as high as 300,000. 

The work is mostly phone-based and can be done from home. The jobs can be full- or part-time, often with an hourly wage of $17 to $25; some include benefits. They differ from one place to the next in part because training and recruiting efforts have largely fallen to state and local governments (and some of the programs have already run into problems, both practical and political).

Important work - I imagine that those with a science background would be valued...