Will AI Replace Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks?

Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

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

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Keep informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Complete time sheets showing employees' arrival and departure times.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Provide information to employees and managers on payroll matters, tax issues, benefit plans, and collective agreement provisions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Conduct verifications of employment.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Prepare and file payroll tax returns.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Compile statistical reports, statements, and summaries related to pay and benefits accounts, and submit them to appropriate departments.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Balance cash and payroll accounts.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Complete, verify, and process forms and documentation for administration of benefits, such as pension plans, and unemployment and medical insurance.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Train employees on organizations' timekeeping systems.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Coordinate special programs, such as United Way campaigns, that involve payroll deductions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.