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Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks Salary in WA

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks in WA have a median annual salary of $64,560, with 3,560 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $50,220 at the 10th percentile to $89,290 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

$64,560

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$31.04

Employment

3,560

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$50,220
10th
$58,310
25th
$64,560
Median
$76,390
75th
$89,290
90th

Local compared with national

WA

$64,560

Median annual · 2025

United States

$58,260

Median annual · 2025

The WA median is 10.8% above the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $6,300).

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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