Payroll Clerks
- Classification
- Unit
- Major group
- Clerical and Administrative Workers
Classification
- Major group
- 5Clerical and Administrative Workers
- Sub-major group
- 55Numerical Clerks
- Minor group
- 551Accounting Clerks and Bookkeepers
Description
Payroll Clerks prepare payrolls and related records for employee salaries and statutory record-keeping purposes.
Skill level
Australia
AQF Certificate II or III (ANZSCO Skill Level 4)
New Zealand
NZQF Level 2 or 3 qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 4) At least one year of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualifications listed above. In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification.
Tasks
Tasks include
- creating files for new employees to record payroll data
- maintaining and updating files for existing employees to record information such as employee contact details, leave taken, overtime, promotions, transfers, tax deductions, health insurance payments and superannuation
- preparing payroll data from time sheets and other payroll and personnel records
- processing payment of wages and salaries
- issuing and recording adjustments to employees' pay
- interpreting industrial awards
- providing information to employees and managers about payroll matters such as tax issues, benefits and deductions
- finalising files and arrangements when employees retire, resign or transfer
- may be involved in maintaining superannuation and other deduction and contribution records