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PS Personnel Specialist

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Overview

Personnel Specialists maintain financial and Electronic Service Records and provide personnel and pay services to active and reserve members, retirees, and dependents. They process pay transactions, prepare orders and reenlistment or separation documents, determine travel entitlements, administer advancement examinations, maintain personnel accounting, and issue identification cards.

Minimum ASVAB: VE+MK 103 or VE+MK+CS 148

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: milpersman-1306-618-rating-list-2026-04 (source date 2026-04). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Military pay transaction auditing and verification
  • Relocation entitlement and allowance calculations
  • Staffing verification against authorized billets
  • Advancement examination and eligibility screening administration

Civilian Career Paths

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Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

Preparing and auditing military pay transactions, computing entitlements and deductions, and managing leave records transfer directly to payroll processing and timekeeping.

How to prepare: Practice a civilian payroll cycle using sample attendance records, wage calculations, and deductions in Microsoft Excel, checking each result against the supporting records.

What the civilian work involves
  • Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
  • Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
  • Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Kronos Workforce Timekeeper
  • Workday software

Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping

Maintaining electronic service records, processing reenlistment and separation documentation, and explaining personnel policies transfer directly to employee records and HR support.

How to prepare: Build a sample employee-record workflow covering onboarding, leave, and separation, with a checklist for verifying documentation at each step.

What the civilian work involves
  • Process, verify, and maintain personnel related documentation, including staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance evaluations, classifications, and employee leaves of absence.
  • Explain company personnel policies, benefits, and procedures to employees or job applicants.
  • Answer questions regarding examinations, eligibility, salaries, benefits, and other pertinent information.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft SharePoint

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): PERSONNEL SPECIALIST (PS)

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 59741; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Military pay transaction auditing and verification, Relocation entitlement and allowance calculations, Staffing verification against authorized billets, Advancement examination and eligibility screening administration, Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks (O*NET 43-3051.00), Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping (O*NET 43-4161.00)

  2. O*NET: Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks (O*NET 43-3051.00)

  3. O*NET: Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping (O*NET 43-4161.00)

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