FNS50422 is the nationally recognised Diploma of Payroll Services. It prepares you for work as a payroll clerk. It has been the current version on the national register since 2022, when it replaced FNS50417. Employers posted about 1,169 payroll clerk jobs in June 2026, up 5.3% on a year earlier.
The signals behind the Diploma of Payroll Services are mixed, and both sides are worth weighing. Enrolments are rising and job ads in June 2026 were up 5.3% on a year earlier. The official shortage list does not rate its occupations in shortage. These are official statistics, not a promise about your result.
Employers are posting more payroll clerk jobs than a year ago. About 1,169 payroll clerk jobs were advertised online in June 2026, up 5.3% on a year earlier. Over the last 12 months there were about 13,500 job ads, while 590 people were training in the qualification nationally (2025). Ads show the market. Enrolments show the pipeline. Neither is a job promise.
Australia's official shortage list rates payroll clerks as not in shortage. The 2025 Occupation Shortage List rates Payroll Clerk as not in shortage.
Payroll clerk jobs are projected to stay about flat. Jobs and Skills Australia projections put these occupations at 52,311 workers in May 2025, 52,844 by May 2030 (up 1%) and 55,213 by May 2035 (up 5.5%).
Enrolments in the Diploma of Payroll Services are growing. Across Australia, 480 people enrolled in 2024. In 2025 it was 590, up 22.9% in a year. National data for FNS50422 starts in 2022.
The register and the national framework set some of this. Providers set the rest.
State funding for FNS50422 is being verified against official program lists.
Eligibility and student contributions vary by program and provider. The official state listing is the source of truth. In a subsidised place the government pays most of the tuition and you pay a co-contribution set by the program and provider.
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Browse coursesGet Course maps FNS50422 to its occupations using the register’s own outcome wording, shown with ANZSCO codes (here, 5513) so the mapping can be checked. Job advertisement counts come from the Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index and count online ads, not vacancies filled. Enrolment counts come from NCVER Total VET Activity and count people in training, not completions. Outcome benchmarks marked “typical” are medians computed by Get Course across all qualifications at the same level in the same NCVER collection; they are derived figures, not official NCVER benchmarks. Funding rows appear only after verification against the official state program list. Source vintages: NCVER Total VET Activity 2025 collection; employment projections May 2025 to May 2035 release; Occupation Shortage List 2025 assessment; register training.gov.au, synced 29 August 2026; Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index latest month June 2026; register synced 29 Aug 2026. Page last updated 30 Aug 2026.