Skip to content
man bot

Clerical support workers · code 4313

Payroll clerks

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

The ILO’s highest group: nearly every task is affected. It ranks 419 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • payroll clerk

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

39.4
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 4

AI could take on 60.6 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 60.6 = 39.4

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

17.3
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

13.3
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 23.1 · hand skill 14.3 · cramped spaces 2.5 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 17.3 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 70, while the average is 60.6. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 70

    Verifying attendance, hours worked and pay adjustments, and posting information onto designated records.

    Medium
  2. 66.5

    Maintaining records of employee attendance, leave and overtime to calculate pay and benefit entitlements, using manual or computerized systems

    Medium
  3. 58.3

    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

    Medium
  4. 57.8

    Preparing employee payments and benefit payments by cheque or electronic transfer

    Medium
  5. 50.7

    Reviewing time sheets, work charts, wage computation and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies

    Medium

5 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
70
AI does it for you
68

Helping wins by 2 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 5513

Compared with similar jobs

There are 29 jobs in the “Clerical support workers” group, averaging 46.8. This one is below that.