Payroll Specialist
Remote · USFull-time$22–26/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
First Atlantic HealthCare is seeking a Payroll Specialist to join its centralized payroll team. The role processes payroll and employee changes, supports payroll and accounting questions across facilities, and helps ensure employees are paid accurately and on time. New hires train in person in South Portland, Maine; after successful training, the position transitions to a fully remote schedule. Candidates must reside in Southern Maine.
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Full job description
Employment Status: Full-Time
Pay Rate: 22
PayRate Interval: Hourly
PayRate Max: 26
Shift: Days
First Atlantic HealthCare is a family of senior and assisted living facilities. This position is part of a centralized, high-functioning payroll team.
This position can be remote following completion of training. However, new hires must be able to travel to South Portland, Maine during the initial in-person training period. After training is successfully completed, work will transition to a fully remote schedule.
Must reside in Southern Maine.
Essential Job Functions:
Our Payroll Team promotes and supports an atmosphere of teamwork and delivers a very high level of service to our internal and external customers:
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Smartlinx and ADP experience preferred
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Manage workflow to process payroll accurately and timely
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Process payroll changes: benefit enrollments and changes, pay changes, terminations, etc.
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Adhere to Company policies and procedures as well as Federal and State laws and regulations relative to wage and hour matters
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Act as a resource for Accounting and Payroll questions for all facilities
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Highly focused on ensuring each employee is paid accurately and on-time each pay period
Minimum Qualifications:
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High School Diploma/GED with 1 or more years of payroll experience
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Practical knowledge of Microsoft Excel and general familiarity with general ledger
Skills and Abilities:
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Strong work ethic, dependable, and team player
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Excellent customer service
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Able to communicate with various levels of management
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Strong organizational skills
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Ability to problem solve using critical thinking skills
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High level of attention to detail
Come work with a supportive fun team and receive the following:
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Flexible Shifts
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Holidays off
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Tuition reimbursement and education assistance to grow your skill set
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Full time employees have access to full benefits; medical, dental, vision, and disability
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Employer paid life insurance and long term disability insurance
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Flexible savings account, including medical & dependent
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Earned Benefit Time with annual payout
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401(k) Retirement savings program with employer match
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Remote with an office space available for use in South Portland
How this job compares
Set against the 637 open Payroll Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$22–26/hr
- US median$27–34/hr169 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $24/hr, is 20% below the US median midpoint ($30/hr) — in the middle half of Payroll Specialist hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 637 open Payroll Specialist jobs across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Robert Half116 open
- H&R Block91 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Payroll Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (449 postings).
- Education
- 35 of the 637 open Payroll Specialist jobs (5%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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