Finance skill
Payroll jobs
Paying people correctly and on time, with the right deductions. Highly regulated and unforgiving of error. Below: the 2 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What Payroll unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Bookkeeper | 773 | salary |
| Payroll Specialist | 119 | , |
Quick answers
What is Payroll?
Paying people correctly and on time, with the right deductions. Highly regulated and unforgiving of error. On our board Payroll counts as a finance skill, and we pull it straight from the text of live postings every night, so the numbers on this page are what employers are asking for right now. Every skill, defined in plain language: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for Payroll?
Quite a few. Right now 892 open roles on our board sit in the 2 occupations where Payroll shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Bookkeeper, with 773 open roles today.
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.