Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Payroll Manager: $126K median posted pay.
From 13 salary bands employers posted on 32 open payroll manager roles in finance. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 32 | $126K | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Danaher | 2 | — |
| oosmanagementcorp | 2 | — |
| Genpt | 2 | — |
| Cooley | 1 | — |
| City Wide Facility Solutions | 1 | — |
| Ferrovial | 1 | — |
| Amentum | 1 | — |
| Acrisure | 1 | — |
| EBNHC | 1 | — |
| Consigli Construction | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open payroll manager roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll Processing | 24 | — |
| Payroll Tax | 14 | — |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 14 | — |
| Bank Reconciliation | 12 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 12 | — |
| Auditing | 10 | — |
| C++ | 10 | — |
| HRIS Systems | 9 | — |
| SOX Compliance | 8 | — |
| Process Documentation | 6 | — |
Where the work is
13% of these roles are remote.
- Remote13%4 roles
- Hybrid3%1 roles
- On site69%22 roles
- Not stated16%5 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 32 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 19, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 13 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Payroll Manager (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in finance, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.