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SSOC 2024 unit

Construction & Real Estate Verified · 21 Mar 2024

43114

Payroll/Wages clerk

Payroll/Wages clerk maintains individual wage records information on hours worked, rates of pay, overtime, bonus or piece-work earnings and deductions for taxes, social security and other contributions, computes amounts due, and records details manually or using computerised systems. He/she prepares and verifies workers’ pay statements and summaries of payments and deductions, and distributes employee payments and wage packets by cheque or electronic means.

SSOC hierarchy Crosswalks

Level

unit

Mapped ISCO

1

Source

SingStat

In this unit group: sibling units

unit-group 4311 Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerks unit 43111 Bookkeeper unit 43112 Ledger/Accounts clerk unit 43113 Audit clerk unit 43115 Billing clerk unit 43116 Procurement/Purchasing clerk

Official data

Official nameSingapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSOC 2024)
Issuing authorityDepartment of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS)
Tax authorityInland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) (IRAS)
PurposeClassifies occupations in Singapore for labour statistics, workforce planning, and international reporting.
Active versionSSOC 2024 (21 Mar 2024)
Hierarchy levelUnit (final leaf, 5-digit)
Sourcehttps://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic
Prior versionsSSIC 2020, SSIC 2015

Definition & tasks

Payroll/Wages clerk maintains individual wage records information on hours worked, rates of pay, overtime, bonus or piece-work earnings and deductions for taxes, social security and other contributions, computes amounts due, and records details manually or using computerised systems. He/she prepares and verifies workers’ pay statements and summaries of payments and deductions, and distributes employee payments and wage packets by cheque or electronic means.

Tasks

No tasks listed.

Examples

Under this unit

•Ÿ  Paymaster

Elsewhere

•Ÿ  Human resource (HR) clerk, see 41102 •Ÿ  Ledger/Accounts clerk, see 43112

Hierarchy context

4→43→431→4311→43114 Payroll/Wages clerk

Major group

4 CLERICAL SUPPORT WORKERS

Sub-major

43 NUMERICAL AND MATERIAL-RECORDING CLERKS

Minor group

431 NUMERICAL CLERKS

Unit group

4311 Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerks

Correspondence tables

SSOC 2020

  • 43114 — Payroll/Wages clerk

ISCO-08

  • 4313 — Payroll clerks

Alphabetical index entries

Principal Title 43114 Payroll/Wages clerk Alternative Title 43114 Paymaster Alternative Title 43114 Payroll clerk Alternative Title 43114 Payroll timekeeper Alternative Title 43114 Salaries clerk Alternative Title 43114 Wages clerk

Data source: Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS) (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic). Official SSOC 2024 workbooks.

Last refresh: 21 Mar 2024. Version: SSOC 2024.

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