The Collar360

Payroll clerk

Other names

payroll accounts clerk, wages clerk, payroll bookeeper, payroll officer, payroll technician, payroll administrator, payroll and benefits clerk, personnel and payroll technician, payroll accounting clerk

Accounting and audit

They check workers' hours and pay, work out wages, and make sure everyone gets the correct pay.

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The work

The work

The tasks come from O*NET (United States) and ESCO (Europe), the world's two occupation databases. How the work is done can differ in Uganda; our team adds the local way where it does.

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    Process and issue employee pay cheques and statements of earnings and deductions.

  3. 3

    Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.

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Sources

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Uganda labour market: UBOS (NLFS 2021, LMS 2025, UNHS, NHRS), ILOSTAT, NDP IV Human Resource Development Plan

Official record

Uganda Bureau of Statistics; International Labour Organization (ILOSTAT); National Planning Authority. Gathered by The Collar360.

UBOS and NPA publications (public); ILOSTAT CC BY 4.0

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ISCO-08, International Standard Classification of Occupations

International classification

ISCO-08 © International Labour Organization.

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ESCO, European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

International classification

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU): free reuse with attribution

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O*NET 31.0 Database

International classification

Includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.

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In other languages

français
responsable paie
español
administrativo de nóminas/administrativa de nóminas
العربية
موظف الرواتب / موظفة الرواتب
português
Operador de processamento de pagamento de salários/Operadora de processamento de pagamento de salários
Deutsch
Lohn- und Gehaltsbuchhalter/Lohn- und Gehaltsbuchhalterin
italiano
addetto buste paga/addetta buste paga

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