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RISKATLAS.CO.ZA
Payroll Clerk
OFO Code: 431301
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 431301
- Occupation
- Payroll Clerk
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- CLERICAL SUPPORT WORKERS
- Unit group
- 4313 · Payroll Clerks
Official description
Payroll clerks collect, verify and process payroll information and compute pay and benefit entitlements for employees within a department, company or other establishment.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Pay Clerk, Salaries Administrator, Payroll Coordinator, Salaries Clerk, Payroll Consultant, Wage Clerk, Salaries Officer, Payroll Assistant
- Preparing employee payments and benefit payments by cheque or electronic transfer
- Reviewing time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies
- 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
- Verifying attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and posting information onto designated records
- Maintaining records of employee attendance, leave and overtime to calculate pay and benefit entitlements, using manual or computerized systems
2. Demand status
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3. Salary evidence
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned