Skills & competences

Description

Payroll clerks collect, verify and process payroll information and compute pay and benefit entitlements for employees within a department, company or other establishment.
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 into designated records.
Example of the occupations included here:
- Wages clerk
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Accounting assistant - 3313
- Bookkeeper - 3313
- Accounts clerk - 4311
- Bookkeeping clerk - 4311