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Payroll clerk
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
Clerical support workers
Numerical and material recording clerks
Numerical clerks
Payroll clerks
Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Payroll clerks
1.226
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
63,23%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
43,06% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
87,03%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
6,93%
Part-time contracts
1,07% Turnover index
346
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
0%
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.
Numerical and material recording clerks
51%
49%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Numerical and material recording clerks
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
Numerical clerks
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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?
Payroll clerks
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.
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