Job Demand: Low
Average weekly wage: $1,442
Where you could work:
Office based environments across multiple industries
Payroll Clerks do the following tasks:
- 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