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Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

Compile and record employee time and payroll data. May compute employees' time worked, production, and commission. May compute and post wages and deductions, or prepare paychecks.

$52,240
Median Pay
1-3 years
Training
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High Disruption Risk
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AI Resilience Score

Score 0/6: high AI task exposure, declining job demand, limited human advantage creates significant risk from AI disruption

🔴High Disruption Risk

How we calculated this:

AI Exposure
High+0

84% of tasks can be accelerated by AI

Job Growth
Declining+0

-17% projected (2024-2034)

Human Advantage
Weak+0

EPOCH score: 7/25

Total Score0/6
Methodology: v2.0 - GPTs are GPTs / BLS / EPOCH Additive ScoringUpdated: 2026-01-09
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Key Responsibilities

  • Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
  • Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
  • Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
  • Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
  • Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.
  • Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
  • Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.
  • Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.
  • Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.
  • Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.

Education & Training

Typical Entry Education

Bachelor's degree

Time to Job Ready

1-3 years

Based on Job Zone 3. For formal education duration only, see education_duration.

Technology Skills

Payroll software (ADP, Paychex)Microsoft ExcelHRIS systemsTimekeeping systemsAccounting software

Key Abilities

Oral ComprehensionWritten ComprehensionWritten ExpressionNear VisionOral ExpressionMathematical ReasoningInformation OrderingNumber FacilityProblem SensitivityDeductive Reasoning

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Compensation Details

$35,960
10th Percentile
$52,240
Median
$75,820
90th Percentile

Based on 157,230 employed workers

Also Known As

Accounting AssistantAttendance ClerkBonus ClerkCheckmanCommissions ClerkFinance SpecialistFlight Crew SchedulerFlight Crew Time ClerkHuman Resources Administrative Assistant (HR Administrative Assistant)Payroll Administrator (Payroll Admin)

Data from O*NET 30.1 and BLS Occupational Employment Statistics

O*NET Code: 43-3051.00