Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

1. 01Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.AI could speed this up a lot
2. 02Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
3. 03Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.AI could speed this up a lot
4. 04Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.AI could speed this up a lot
5. 05Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
6. 06Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.AI could speed this up a lot
7. 07Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.AI could speed this up a lot
8. 08Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.AI could speed this up a lot
9. 09Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.AI could speed this up a lot
10. 10Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.AI could speed this up a lot

Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.

AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.

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