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Compile and post employee time and payroll data. May compute employees' time worked, production, and commission. May compute and post wages and deductions. May prepare paychecks.

Sample of reported job titles: Payroll Clerk, Payroll Specialist, Payroll Coordinator, Payroll Administrator, Payroll Assistant, Accounting Technician, Payroll Representative, Personnel Assistant, Payroll and Benefits Specialist, Payroll Technician

Tasks

• Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
• Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
• Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
• Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
• Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.
• Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
• Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.
• Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records.
• Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.
• Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.

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