Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
SOC Code: 43-3051
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerkss verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records. This career typically requires medium preparation (1-2 years). With an AI-proof score of 68.1/100, this role has moderate resilience to automation. Key skills include Reading Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening.
AI-Proof Score: 68.1 — High
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Median Salary
$55,290
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Job Growth
-16.7%
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Training Time
Medium preparation (1-2 years)
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Job Zone
Zone 3 / 5
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Training Cost
~$15,000
Key Skills
- •Reading Comprehension
- •Active Listening
- •Mathematics
- •Writing
- •Critical Thinking
Common Tasks
- ✓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.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation