6.9High RiskNo Shortage
Payroll Clerks
Numerical Clerks · Accounting Clerks and Bookkeepers
High Risk
Median Weekly Pay
$1,548
Full-time workers
Employment
54,500
Total workers
10yr Growth
+4.3%
Projected to 2034
Shortage Status
No Shortage
JSA Official AI Exposure
Automation68.0%
Augmentation70.0%
Key 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 in involved in maintaining superannuation and other deduction and contribution records
Employment Projections to 2034
Median Age
45
Female Share
86.0%
Part-Time Share
29.0%
Skill Level
4 / 5