• Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
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  • Business, Management and Administration
  • Annual Median Wage
    $ 46,490
    $31,540 range bar $66,540
    Annual NC Wage Range
    Growth Rate
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    Very Slow Growing
  • Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks compile and record employee time and payroll data.

What do they typically do

  • Maintain and update payroll records by recording employee information like exemptions, transfers, and resignations
  • Review time sheets, work charts, wage calculations, and other information to find and correct payroll mistakes
  • Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records
  • Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers
  • Keep track of employee leave time such as vacation, personal, and sick leave
  • Check attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and put this information into records
  • Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions
  • Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into payroll system

Number of Jobs

Average Annual
Job Growth -1.4%
Job Openings 422

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