What is a Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk?

Strictly speaking, a payroll and timekeeping clerk is an office job designed to take a large burden of the executive duties out of your's or your manager's hands ... freeing you up to do the important things you are uniquely qualified to do. Driving buisness should be the main focul point of these staff members, not pushing pencils trying to get all the debits and credits straightened up. Some common jobs preformed by a payroll and timekeeping clerk are ...

- Organizing timecards, timesheets or internet software
- Checking for problems or open clock-ins
- Summing up salary or hourly wages
- Calculating deductions
- Filing away the appropriate forms
- Employee information upkeep
- Organizing 401k and other benefits
- Mailing business and personal tax forms
- Reporting

Is payroll really a full time job? Of course not. In restaurants, for instance, these staff members only come in 2-3 hours a day and balance the books. Many business lines that do not have a large amount of daily transactions for their payroll or timekeeping will have clerks that work around 5 hours per week.

Should my payroll clerk be my accountant also? Definitly no, if so then (s)he is way overqualified for the job. This is frequently the job for a responsible stay at home parent that juggles word during kids school or a college undergraduate who is a part-time clerk while in school.

So is Clockout.org a Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk?

Again the answer is no. Clockout.org handles the mundane work of keeping up with employee timekeeping and provides numbers to make payroll reporting easy. While this script could be modified to handle many of the common requests of a payroll and timekeeping clerk's job requirements, setting this up A> should be handled on a per company basis and B> doing this would not save much time. This particular job requires a "live" person to transfer actual numbers to paper or spreadsheet ... we can only be minimal help here so clockout.org is just set up for actual timekeeping.

If you are interested in setting up your payroll and timekeeping clerk with some great online forms that can make their job easier, please contact Process2Print.com. Their business form software powers our invoice printing capabilities.