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Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

The short answer

This job is expected to meaningfully change. AI can already assist with or automate many of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to shrink over the next decade, with about 854 openings expected each year.

Step 1

Where your job stands

Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the most exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. That doesn't mean the job goes away—it means more of its tasks are the kind AI can help with.

How much AI could touch this job

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Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about half of this job's tasks.

What this means

Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the most exposed fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.

Step 2

What AI can and can’t help with in this job

The score comes from the real, day-to-day tasks of this job—not a guess about the job as a whole. Below are the tasks that matter most in this job, split by whether AI can help with them.

AI can help with or automate nearly every task in this job.

Tasks AI can help with or automate

  1. Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.

    AI could do much of this on its own

  2. Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  3. Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.

    AI could do much of this on its own

  4. Prepare and file payroll tax returns.

    AI could do much of this on its own

  5. Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.

    AI could do much of this on its own

Step 3

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