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Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks Salary in Anchorage, AK

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks in Anchorage, AK have a median annual salary of $61,940, with 190 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $49,230 at the 10th percentile to $75,840 at the 90th percentile.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · Data year: 2025 · Last updated: 2026-09-22

Salary overview

Median annual salary

$61,940

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$29.78

Employment

190

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$49,230
10th
$56,390
25th
$61,940
Median
$67,030
75th
$75,840
90th

Local compared with national

Anchorage, AK

$61,940

Median annual · 2025

United States

$58,260

Median annual · 2025

The Anchorage, AK median is 6.3% above the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $3,680).

Top skills

  1. 1.Reading ComprehensionImportance 3.9
  2. 2.Active ListeningImportance 3.8
  3. 3.MathematicsImportance 3.3
  4. 4.WritingImportance 3.1
  5. 5.SpeakingImportance 3.1
  6. 6.Critical ThinkingImportance 3.1
  7. 7.MonitoringImportance 3.0
  8. 8.Service OrientationImportance 3.0
  9. 9.Complex Problem SolvingImportance 3.0
  10. 10.Social PerceptivenessImportance 2.9
  11. 11.Judgment and Decision MakingImportance 2.9
  12. 12.Time ManagementImportance 2.9

Career information

Education and experience

Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years
Job zone
3

Technology used

  • IBM Notes
  • Human resource management software HRMS
  • Human Resource MicroSystems HR Entre
  • IBM Cognos Impromptu
  • Intuit QuickBooks
  • isolved Time
  • Jantek Jupiter Time Attendance
  • Kronos Workforce Payroll
  • Kronos Workforce Timekeeper
  • MicroFocus GroupWise
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • Microsoft Dynamics GP
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Great Plains Personal Data Keeper

Common tasks

  • Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
  • Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
  • Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
  • Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
  • Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.
  • Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
  • Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.
  • Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.
  • Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.
  • Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.

Related careers

Occupations recorded as related in the dataset. A relationship does not imply a guaranteed transition.

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