Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
Releasing pay transactions for a Navy Unit Identification Code provides directly relevant experience for civilian payroll processing.
How to prepare: Complete a civilian payroll practice exercise in Microsoft Excel to identify gaps in wage and deduction rules, pay calculations, and payroll data entry before learning an employer's payroll system.
What the civilian work involves
- 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.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Microsoft Excel
- Workday software