Prices verified Nov 10, 2026 from vendor sites. Written by PayrollPriceWatch.
How we check prices
PayrollPriceWatch is the organization that writes these pages. There is no separate named author. Every figure is copied from a vendor page, an Intuit announcement, or an archived copy of a vendor page, and the date checked is stored with it.
PayrollPriceWatch tracks 16 payroll products small businesses shop. For each one, we open the vendor's public pricing page and record every plan we can price. That includes the plan name, the base monthly fee, the per-employee fee, contractor treatment, whether tax filing is included, how extra states are charged, the source URL, and the date checked. The current check is Nov 10, 2026.
How the table is built
- The default table is 10 employees, 0 contractors, and 1 state.
- It keeps only plans that file payroll taxes, then picks each vendor's cheapest matching plan. You can turn that filter off to include software that calculates taxes but leaves filing to you, such as Patriot Basic.
- PEO plans (Justworks PEO, Deel PEO) are priced on the vendor pages and hidden in the default sort, because co-employment is a different product.
- Introductory discounts, such as half off for three months, free months, or 30-day trials, are noted and left out of the total. The number is the ongoing list price.
- Annual cost is the monthly list price times 12.
What we do not guess
If a vendor's page asks for a quote, the row says Quote only. ADP RUN, Paychex Flex, Rippling payroll, Hourly, and BambooHR Payroll are in that group on this check. Rippling's page also says plans start at $8 per employee plus a base fee. That sentence is not a payroll price, so it is not in the table.
SurePayroll's page, fetched the same day, contains two Full Service base fees ($29 and $39, both plus $7 per employee) and two prices for the plan where you file taxes ($20 and $29, both plus $4 per employee). Those figures are listed on the vendor page as conflicting observations. None of them is used as the price.
ADP's site returned HTTP 403 to a direct fetch. The Quote only label for ADP RUN comes from the indexed text of ADP's own packages page, which says Get Pricing and shows no dollar amounts, and from ADP's pricing-transparency article. No ADP RUN price is estimated.
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Not advice
PayrollPriceWatch lists published prices so you can compare them. It is not financial, tax, legal, or payroll advice.
A weekly check re-fetches each pricing page and writes a difference into the price history when it can read a price. It does not overwrite the published dataset when a page is blocked or unrecognizable. Corrections from readers go to the review queue and are not applied automatically.