Compensation and Payroll Maintenance Specialist

Board of County Commissioners ‚Ä¢ Full Time ‚Ä¢ $67,080–$78,000 / year

Posted on Fri, Aug 7, 2026

Department:

Human Resources

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Join our dynamic 45-member HR team as the Compensation and Payroll Maintenance Specialist with Sarasota County!
Perform Classification and Compensation tasks and coordinating payroll maintenance. This position serves as the subject matter expert for onboarding new hires and internal job changes. Responsible for Payroll file pass through for each pay period, I-9s, and all other related paperwork/processes.

Classification and Compensation - Estimated 70%

Onboarding/Oversight - Estimated 20%

Serves as the trainer and subject matter expert for internal job offers, job changes, and onboarding submitted through the competitive recruitment process.  Monitoring/oversight of the following:

Payroll - Estimated 10%

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 5 PM

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

About Everything Else

Starting Pay Range: $67,080.00 - $78,000.00, based on experience.

Our interview process could include phone interview(s), Microsoft Teams video interview(s), and/or in-person interview(s).

If you are selected to join our team, please click on this link to review the Required First Day Documents. You will need to present the following items on your first day:

1. I-9 Acceptable Documents to show your identity and authorization to work. Use this link to learn more and review the different document options: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents

2. U.S. Social Security Card (signed, physical card). This is a requirement of our Payroll Department and failure to provide this document could jeopardize timely compensation. (Your U.S. Social Security Card can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List C Documents.)  

Benefits:

A different blend of voices prompt better conversations, choices and results for everyone. Sarasota County – Many Voices, One Team.

We celebrate and value the experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, talents and strengths that make us different.

Our vision is to attract, develop, retain and engage a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service – internally and externally. 

A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application/selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members. For assistance with the application, please call 941-861-5353.

Sarasota County prohibits discrimination in all services, programs or activities. View the complete policy at scgov.net (keywords: ADA Compliance).

Sarasota County Government is a Tobacco-Free/Drug-Free Workplace.

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