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Pay runs, reporting and year-end, processed on time.

Also called: Payroll Officer, Payroll Administrator, Payroll Management Specialist

From AUD $6 an hourAUD $6-27.50/hr

  • Construction
  • Healthcare
  • Xero
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  • Works your hours
  • Philippines hub, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney
  • Month to month
What your Payroll Specialist gets doneSample day
  • Collects and checks approved timesheets and leavePay cycle processing
  • Lodges STP Phase 2 pay eventsStatutory reporting and remittance
  • Processes pay-rate changes, allowances and salary sacrificeEmployee lifecycle
  • Posts payroll journals and reconciles wages, taxReconciliation and year endDoing
In your tools
  • Xero Payroll
  • MYOB Payroll
  • QuickBooks Payroll
  • When I Work
  • Sage Payroll
  • IRIS Payroll

Pick the level. See the price.

AUD $10.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costsAUD $31.11/hr
A tested Intermediate Payroll SpecialistAUD $10.50/hr
60-75% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Super and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns the full pay cycle, with light review.

  • On-time pay runs and statutory lodgements
  • Final-pay calculations
  • Monthly payroll-to-GL reconciliation

2-4 years owning payroll for 1-3 entities in one jurisdiction.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude GST.

What you hand to your Payroll Specialist

Tasks

  • Pay cycle processing

    • Collects and checks approved timesheets and leave
    • Calculates ordinary time, overtime, penalty rates
    • Runs a pre-approval variance review against the last period
    • Produces bank files and payslips for the client to authorise and release

  • Statutory reporting and remittance

    • Lodges STP Phase 2 pay events
    • Prepares certified payroll reports

  • Employee lifecycle

    • Processes pay-rate changes, allowances and salary sacrifice
    • Calculates final pay for leavers

  • Reconciliation and year end

    • Posts payroll journals and reconciles wages, tax
    • Prepares payroll tax and workers' compensation wage declarations
    • Completes year-end finalisation

  • Compliance and queries

    • Applies annual rate changes
    • Answers employee pay queries within the agreed service level

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written English: employee pay queryAll levels20 min
  2. Gross-to-net calculation test (jurisdiction track)All levels60 min
  3. Payroll system tool testIntern to Expert60 min
  4. Pay-run review error huntAll levels30 min
  5. Payroll compliance quizIntermediate and up30 min
  6. Underpayment disclosure role-playExpert and Specialist30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

93%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Payroll Specialist is AUD $6 an hour, Intermediate AUD $10.50, Expert AUD $16.50 and Specialist AUD $27.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude GST.

Pay cycle processing, statutory reporting and remittance, employee lifecycle and reconciliation and year end, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English: employee pay query, gross-to-net calculation test (jurisdiction track) and payroll system tool test. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Payroll Specialist works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to Australia & NZ clients is in the Philippines, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney.

Yes, where it helps. Your Payroll Specialist works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Payroll Specialist owns the full pay cycle, with light review. An Expert Payroll Specialist runs multi-entity and multi-jurisdiction payroll and configures pay items and award interpretation. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Payroll Specialist is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Xero Payroll and Employment Hero Payroll, before you meet them.

In week one: gets access to the payroll system with a processor role; loads the pay calendar into a shared calendar with reminders; and recorded SOP handover covering timesheet approval flow, overtime rules. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Payroll Officer, Payroll Administrator and Payroll Management Specialist. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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