Payroll Specialist – Multi-State Payroll & Employee Support
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A growing professional services organization seeks a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist to keep payroll organized, accurate, and running smoothly. The role processes payroll for employees across multiple states, resolves payroll discrepancies, and supports payroll tax reporting and month-end accounting. It requires hands-on payroll processing experience, familiarity with multi-state payroll and wage and hour regulations, and experience with payroll platforms such as ADP, Paylocity, or UKG.
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Description
A growing professional services organization is looking for a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist who enjoys keeping payroll organized, accurate, and running smoothly. This role is ideal for someone who understands the importance of deadlines, enjoys working with employee data, and can confidently troubleshoot payroll discrepancies.
Key Responsibilities:
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Process biweekly payroll for hourly and salaried employees across multiple states.
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Review timecards, PTO, overtime, bonuses, commissions, and employee pay adjustments.
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Maintain accurate payroll records and employee compensation information.
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Research and resolve payroll discrepancies, missed punches, and wage inquiries.
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Assist with payroll tax reporting, garnishments, deductions, and benefit-related changes.
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Reconcile payroll reports and assist with month-end accounting support.
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Partner with HR and accounting regarding onboarding, terminations, and employee changes.
Requirements
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2–4 years of hands-on payroll processing experience.
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Familiarity with multi-state payroll and applicable wage and hour regulations.
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Experience with ADP, Paylocity, UKG, or similar payroll platforms.
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Strong Excel skills and excellent attention to detail.
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Ability to manage confidential employee information and meet strict deadlines.
Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.
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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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