Moreover, some shrines employ non-shinshoku personnel in a variety of categories, for example apprentices to shinshoku, including "Shusshi," Shuten, Tenji, and Reijin (gagaku performers), or administrative workers like Sanji, shuji (deputy secretaries), rokuji (clerks) and shujiho (assistant deputy secretaries), or religious employees like kyodoshi and kyogakushi, or workers in engineering such as executive advisory engineers or regular engineers, and finally miscellaneous employees like temporary workers, or security staff working as guards or gate guards.
この他、神職には含まれない職員や、神職見習いである「出仕」や主典、典仕、伶人、神宮などでは事務職員としての参事、主事、録事、主事補や宗教職員として教導司、教学司、技術職員としての技監、技師、その他の職員としての嘱託、警備職員としての衛士、守衛などの職員を置いている神社もある。