Payroll Specialist
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Job overview
An established manufacturing company is seeking a hands-on Payroll Specialist to support payroll operations for a busy production workforce. The role focuses on timekeeping details, investigating discrepancies, and partnering with supervisors to ensure employees are paid correctly and on time. It processes payroll for hourly production, warehouse, and administrative employees and supports payroll audits and reconciliations.
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Description
An established manufacturing company is seeking a hands-on Payroll Specialist to support payroll operations for a busy production workforce. This position is especially well suited for someone who enjoys working through timekeeping details, investigating discrepancies, and partnering with supervisors to make sure employees are paid correctly and on time.
Key Responsibilities:
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Process weekly and biweekly payroll for hourly production, warehouse, and administrative employees.
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Audit employee timecards, shift differentials, overtime, attendance, and missed punches.
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Collect and verify supervisor approvals before payroll deadlines.
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Enter new hires, terminations, pay rate changes, and employee deductions.
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Investigate payroll discrepancies and respond to employee questions.
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Maintain payroll files and assist with wage garnishments and payroll deductions.
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Prepare payroll summaries and support periodic audits and reconciliations.
Requirements
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2+ years of payroll or timekeeping experience.
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Experience supporting hourly or high-volume employee populations preferred.
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Familiarity with ADP Workforce Now, UKG, Paylocity, or similar systems.
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Strong Excel skills and comfort working with detailed reports.
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Excellent follow-through, organization, and communication skills.
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How this job compares
Set against the 616 open Payroll Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$65–90K/yr87 salary ranges
- US median$27–33/hr163 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 57 open Payroll Specialist jobs in California and 616 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Robert Half Accountemps (this employer)16 open
- Robert Half Finance & Accounting6 open
- H&R Block4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Payroll Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (429 postings).
- Education
- 35 of the 616 open Payroll Specialist jobs (6%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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