Payroll specialist
What you will do
- Run payroll for [number] employees
- Calculate holiday pay, sick pay and final pay
- File tax returns and entries in the employment register
- Answer employees' questions about pay
You must have
- [Number] years in payroll
- Good knowledge of employment and tax law
- Experience with [payroll software]
Good to have
- An accounting qualification
- Experience with time records for shift workers
- How to apply
- [your link], by [date]
- Your answer
- Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
Job title Payroll specialist Where [town or address], [office or hybrid] Hours [Full or part time], Monday to Friday Pay [amount] to [amount] € a month before tax Contract [Permanent or fixed term], starting [date] What you will do • Run payroll for [number] employees • Calculate holiday pay, sick pay and final pay • File tax returns and entries in the employment register • Answer employees' questions about pay You must have • [Number] years in payroll • Good knowledge of employment and tax law • Experience with [payroll software] Good to have • An accounting qualification • Experience with time records for shift workers How to apply [your link], by [date] Your answer Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
How these figures are made
Estonia
- Payroll clerks (ISCO 4313)
- average 2,348 €, median 2,290 €
Full-time equivalent gross monthly pay by workplace, all of Estonia. The median is the pay that half the people in the group earn more than and half less. Source Statistics Estonia's pay app, checked on 1 October 2026.
What the job pays in other countries
It pays most in Denmark, about 3.0 times the Estonian median, though the Danish figure includes pension. If you send workers abroad or hire from there, this is the comparison that matters.
| Country | Median | Usual range | In euros a month | Occupation group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EstoniaQ2 2026 | 2,290 € | not published | 2,290 € | Payroll clerks (4313) |
| Finland2024 | 3,129 € | not published | 3,129 € | Payroll clerks (4313) |
| Sweden2025 | 38,500 SEK | 34,700–44,400 SEK | ≈ 3,410 € | Payroll and personnel clerks (4112, closest group) |
| Norway2025 | 57,160 NOK | 51,670–64,080 NOK | ≈ 5,277 € | Payroll clerks (4313) |
| Denmark2025 | 51,601 DKK | 44,280–59,117 DKK | ≈ 6,904 € | Payroll clerks (4313) |
| Germany2025 | 4,451 € | 3,601–5,641 € | 4,451 € | Occupations in accounting – complex tasks (72213) |
| United Kingdom2025 | 31,560 GBP a year | 26,802–40,123 GBP a year | ≈ 3,093 € | Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks (4122) |
Median pay for full-time work from each country's official source: Statistics Estonia, Statistics Finland, Statistics Sweden, Statistics Norway, Statistics Denmark, Federal Employment Agency, Office for National Statistics. The sources count slightly differently. Denmark's figure includes pension, Germany's holiday and Christmas pay, and the United Kingdom publishes a year's pay, divided by twelve here for the monthly comparison. Jobs are grouped by ISCO-08. Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom have their own classifications, matched to it, and "closest group" marks a group that is near, not the same. Where a country counts fewer than 2,000 people in a job's first group and more in its second, the second is used. The usual range is the middle half of people in the job, the 25th to the 75th percentile. Finland publishes only the 10th and 90th, so it has none. In euros at the European Central Bank rate of 2 October 2026, 1 € = 11.29 SEK, 1 € = 10.83 NOK, 1 € = 7.47 DKK and 1 € = 0.85 GBP. These figures describe the market, not the minimum a collective agreement sets.