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Ocupacions

Payroll clerk

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Payroll accounting clerk Payroll accounts clerk Payroll administrator Payroll and benefits clerk Payroll bookeeper Payroll clerk Payroll officer Payroll technician Personnel and payroll technician Wages clerk

Payroll clerks manage the time sheets and pay checks of the employees and ensure the accuracy and correctness of the information. They check overtime, sick days and vacations and distribute the pay checks.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Maintaining records of employee attendance, leave and overtime to calculate pay and benefit entitlements, using manual or computerized systems;
(b) Preparing and verifying statements of earnings for employees, indicating gross and net salaries and deductions such as taxes, union dues, garnishments and insurance and pension plans;
(c) Preparing employee payments and benefit payments by cheque or electronic transfer;
(d) Reviewing time sheets, work charts, wage computation and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies;
(e) Verifying attendance, hours worked and pay adjustments, and posting information onto designated records.

Knowledge

  • Accounting and taxation
  • Mathematics
  • Occupational health and safety

Digital competencies

  • Planning events and programmes
  • Performing calculations
  • Collaborating and liaising
  • Preparing financial documents, records, reports, or budgets
  • Managing and administering human resources

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently

Professional groups of the occupation

Technicians and associate professionals

Science and engineering associate professionals

Physical and engineering science technicians

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

1.235

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

63,66%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

53,23% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

86,48%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

7,29%

Part-time contracts

1,08% Turnover index

352

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

2%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Science and engineering associate professionals

68%

32%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering associate professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Physical and engineering science technicians

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
43%
Between 1 and 2 years
7%
Between 2 and 4 years
19%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
16%
Manufacturing
32%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
28%
Information and communication
9%
Administrative and support service activities
8%
Education
7%
Others
16%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

Occupations that share knowledge and skills

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.