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Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks Salary in Los Angeles, CA

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks in Los Angeles, CA have a median annual salary of $65,040, with 6,600 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $48,970 at the 10th percentile to $88,640 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

$65,040

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$31.27

Employment

6,600

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$48,970
10th
$59,810
25th
$65,040
Median
$78,160
75th
$88,640
90th

Local compared with national

Los Angeles, CA

$65,040

Median annual · 2025

United States

$58,260

Median annual · 2025

The Los Angeles, CA median is 11.6% above the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $6,780).

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.

Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks salary in other locations

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