2 provider pricing pages checked 2026-09-09
The best payroll services are the ones that publish a price
Most payroll and PEO providers will not tell you a price until you have spoken to a salesperson. This site records which ones do. Every figure below was fetched from the provider's own page and matched word for word before it was published, with the date we checked. Where a provider publishes nothing, that is what it says.
- median advertised base subscription, per month
- $39
- advertised base price range across providers
- $29 to $49
- providers with a price they will print
- 2
- states with evidenced cover
- 5
- 2 provider pages checkedevery figure matched verbatim to the provider's own page
- Quoted and dated, never estimatedlast verification pass 2026-09-09
- 5 states with evidenced coverevidenced by the provider's own live state page
Advertised prices, checked against each provider's own page
| Provider | Base price | Per worker | What it covers | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ExtensisHR | |||||
| FrankCrum | |||||
| Gusto | |||||
| Insperity | |||||
| Justworks | |||||
| OnPay | |||||
| Patriot Software | |||||
| Paychex | |||||
| Rippling | |||||
| SurePayroll | |||||
| TriNet | |||||
| VensureHR |
Ordered by advertised base subscription. Providers that publish no price are listed after them with the date we checked, never with an estimate, and providers whose pages we could not read are marked separately again.
- HR companies "HR company" covers three businesses that charge in completely different ways.
- HR outsourcing costs HR outsourcing costs are not one number and providers rarely present them as more than one.
- How much it costs The honest answer to how much HR outsourcing costs is that most providers will not say, and the ones that do are publishing a starting price rather than a bill.
- Cost per employee Cost per employee per month is the only figure in this market that compares two providers honestly, and almost nobody quotes in it.
- Church payroll services Church payroll services exist because congregations are one of the few employers whose payroll is genuinely different in kind rather than degree.
- PEO for staffing companies Staffing companies are the hardest clients in this market and the most likely to be turned away.
- List of PEO companies A list of PEO companies is easy to produce and almost useless to a buyer, which is why this site does not publish one as a ranking.
- PEO companies Professional employer organization companies look far more alike from the outside than they are, because the differences that matter sit inside documents nobody publishes.
- Is it worth it Asking how much it costs to outsource HR is only half a question, because the answer only means something against the cost of not doing it.
- Whole-function cost Outsourcing human resources entirely is a different purchase from outsourcing payroll, and it should be priced against a different alternative: not a payroll subscription, but the cost of building the function internally.
- Cost by service tier Outsourced HR services are sold in tiers, and the tiers are where most buyers overspend.
- HR outsourcing prices Where HR outsourcing prices are published at all, they are published as a list, and a list is a marketing document as much as a price.
- Cost of HR services Not all HR services are bought monthly.
- Largest PEO companies Size is the attribute PEOs publish most readily, because it is the one they can state without disclosing anything commercial.
- Outsource HR services Outsourcing HR services goes wrong in a predictable way: an employer with one specific problem is sold a bundle solving five, and concludes a year later that it is not worth it.
- California PEO company California places more obligations on employers than any other state, and that single fact drives most of the case for using a professional employer organization here.
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The advertised base monthly subscription for a US payroll service in the US payroll and PEO market was $39 in September 2026, across 2 checked provider pricing pages recorded in Payroll Services Quotes Price Record.
Cite as: "Payroll Services Quotes Price Record", updated 2026-09-09, https://payrollservicesquotes.com/.