Payroll specialist · What it does
Three tasks it takes off your hands
- Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
- Compute wages and deductions and enter data into computers.
- Prepare and balance period-end reports and reconcile issued payrolls.
Where these come from
The tasks of “Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks” (O*NET 43-3051.00), as O*NET lists them:
- Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
- Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
- Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.
