Prices verified Nov 10, 2026 from vendor sites. Written by PayrollPriceWatch.

Contractors-only payroll

Contractor payroll, in the narrow sense, is paying 1099 workers rather than running W-2 payroll. Some vendors sell that as its own plan, with no base fee. Some charge contractors the same per-person rate as employees, and only in months they are paid. Some print no contractor price at all. This page separates those three cases using the contractor billing field and the notes already stored. It does not decide whether a given worker should be a contractor.

A contractors-only month is not the same calculation as the homepage default. The homepage uses 10 employees and 0 contractors. A firm that pays only contractors should not read a W-2 total as its price. Where the stored plan has a per-contractor fee, that fee is the published number. Where the field says not published, we do not copy the employee fee into the contractor column.

The file was last checked Nov 10, 2026. Global or international contractor payments are mentioned only when a stored note already separates them from U.S. contractor payroll. Those notes are not converted into a second U.S. price.

Every dollar below is copied from the vendor file that was checked on the date shown. If a plan has no stored fee, the line says not published. If the vendor asks for a quote, the line says Quote only. This page does not average competitors, invent an add-on, or turn a feature name into a price.

How vendors are chosen

A vendor matches when a stored plan uses separate or same-as-employee contractor billing, or when a note uses the word contractor. Plans marked not published stay in the second list. Category labels such as contractor_only are included when a plan actually has that category.

10 vendors have a stored feature or note that matches this topic. Everyone else is listed as not published for the topic.

Stored matches

Gusto

Simple: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 6 dollars. Plus: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 12 dollars. Premium: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 22 dollars. U.S. contractors use the same per-person fee, only in months they are paid. Global contractor payments are a per-payment fee, not a monthly per-contractor fee. The pricing page checked on this date lists Simple, Plus, and Premium. It does not list a Contractor Only plan. Gusto, last checked Nov 10, 2026. Three published payroll plans. Simple is one state. Plus and Premium add multi-state payroll and faster pay. Contractors are billed at the plan's per-person rate only in months they are paid. Simple (payroll): base $49, per employee $6, per contractor $6. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: one. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Plus (payroll): base $80, per employee $12, per contractor $12. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Premium (payroll): base $180, per employee $22, per contractor $22. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan.

OnPay

Payroll Essentials: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 6 dollars. Payroll + Time Tracking + HR: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 10 dollars. Payroll + HR + Compliance + Live HR: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 7 dollars. Payroll + Time + HR + Compliance + Live HR: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 10 dollars. OnPay, last checked Nov 10, 2026. Payroll Essentials is $49 a month plus $6 per worker, with tax filing in every state included. HR, time tracking, and bundles are priced on the same page. Payroll Essentials (payroll): base $49, per employee $6, per contractor $6. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Payroll + Time Tracking + HR (bundle): base $70, per employee $10, per contractor $10. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Payroll + HR + Compliance + Live HR (bundle): base $120, per employee $7, per contractor $7. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Payroll + Time + HR + Compliance + Live HR (bundle): base $130, per employee $10, per contractor $10. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan.

QuickBooks Payroll

Workforce Payroll: contractor billing separate, per contractor 7 dollars. Workforce Premium: contractor billing separate, per contractor 13 dollars. Workforce Elite: contractor billing separate, per contractor 17 dollars. Introductory offer: 50% off the monthly base price for 3 months for new subscribers. A separate 30-day trial covers the base price only. Neither offer applies to per-employee fees, per-contractor fees, or state tax filing fees. Disclosure: contractor payments via direct deposit are $7/month for Core, $13/month for Premium, and $17/month for Elite, per contractor payment. The disclosure still says Core for the $7 tier. That per-contractor amount is what the calculator uses. The phrase 'per contractor payment' is Intuit's wording. QuickBooks Payroll, last checked Nov 10, 2026. Sold as QuickBooks Workforce. List prices are Workforce Payroll $50 + $7, Premium $88 + $13, and Elite $134 + $17. New subscribers see 50% off the base fee for 3 months. Comparisons use the list price. Workforce Payroll (payroll): base $50, per employee $7, per contractor $7. Contractor billing: separate. Tax filing: included. States: extra fee. Extra state fee: $12 a month. Workforce Premium (payroll): base $88, per employee $13, per contractor $13. Contractor billing: separate. Tax filing: included. States: extra fee. Extra state fee: $12 a month. Workforce Elite (payroll): base $134, per employee $17, per contractor $17. Contractor billing: separate. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan.

Roll by ADP

Roll: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 7 dollars. Terms: after the trial, $59 per month for the company plus $7 per W-2 employee and/or 1099 contractor actively paid that month. Roll by ADP, last checked Nov 10, 2026. One plan: $59 a month plus $7 for each W-2 employee or 1099 contractor paid that month. Tax filing in all 50 states is included. New U.S. customers get three months free. Roll (payroll): base $59, per employee $7, per contractor $7. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan.

Patriot Payroll

Basic Payroll: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 4 dollars. Full Service Payroll: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 5 dollars. A worker paid is any employee or 1099 contractor paid at least once in the month. Months with no payroll charge the base fee only. Patriot Payroll, last checked Nov 10, 2026. Basic Payroll is $17 plus $4 per worker paid and does not file taxes. Full Service Payroll is $37 plus $5 per worker paid and does. Each additional state on Full Service is $12 a month. Basic Payroll (payroll): base $17, per employee $4, per contractor $4. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: not included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Full Service Payroll (payroll): base $37, per employee $5, per contractor $5. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: extra fee. Extra state fee: $12 a month.

Homebase Payroll

1099s and W-2s are listed as included. The fee line is per active employee. No separate contractor price is published, so contractor counts are not added. Per active employee. Contractor fee not published. Homebase Payroll, last checked Nov 10, 2026. One published price: $49 a month plus $6 per active employee. Tax filing is included. Payroll is available in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. A separate contractor fee is not published. Homebase Payroll (payroll): base $49, per employee $6, per contractor not published. Contractor billing: not published. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan.

Justworks

Payroll: contractor billing separate, per contractor 8 dollars. PEO Basic: contractor billing separate, per contractor 8 dollars. PEO Plus: contractor billing separate, per contractor 8 dollars. US-based contractors: $8/month per paid contractor, available on Payroll, Basic, and Plus. International contractors are $39 per paid contractor. Employer of Record is $599 per employee. Those are not U.S. payroll plans and are not in the table. Justworks, last checked Nov 10, 2026. Payroll is $50 a month plus $8 per employee. U.S. contractors are $8 per paid contractor. PEO Basic is $79 per employee and PEO Plus is $124 per employee, with no base fee. PEO is a different product and is off by default in the comparison. Payroll (payroll): base $50, per employee $8, per contractor $8. Contractor billing: separate. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. PEO Basic (peo): base $0, per employee $79, per contractor $8. Contractor billing: separate. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. PEO Plus (peo): base $0, per employee $124, per contractor $8. Contractor billing: separate. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan.

Square Payroll

Full-service payroll: contractor billing same as employee, per contractor 6 dollars. Contractor-only payroll: contractor billing separate, per contractor 6 dollars. FAQ: full-service is $35 per month plus $6 per person paid per month. Contractor-only is $6 per person paid per month. Full-service includes multistate payroll, automated federal and state tax payments and filings, and new-hire reporting. Contractor-only does not include those. Square Payroll, last checked Nov 10, 2026. Full-service payroll is $35 a month plus $6 per person paid. Contractor-only payroll is $6 per person paid, with no base fee. Tax filing for employees is included on the full-service plan. Full-service payroll (payroll): base $35, per employee $6, per contractor $6. Contractor billing: same as employee. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Contractor-only payroll (contractor_only): base $0, per employee $0, per contractor $6. Contractor billing: separate. Tax filing: not included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan.

Wave Payroll

U.S. full-access payroll: contractor billing separate, per contractor 6 dollars. Employee and contractor fees are billed the following month. The first bill is the base fee only. Canada, not used in this U.S. comparison: $25 CAD base plus $6 per active employee and $6 per contractor paid. 1099 filings are excluded from the tax service. Employees are billed while active, not only when paid. Contractors are billed when paid. Wave Payroll, last checked Nov 10, 2026. U.S. full-access payroll is $40 a month plus $6 per active employee and $6 per independent contractor paid. The employee fee applies even in a month the person is not paid, as long as they are active and not on leave. U.S. full-access payroll (payroll): base $40, per employee $6, per contractor $6. Contractor billing: separate. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan.

Deel

Contractor pricing is not on these cards. Deel, last checked Nov 10, 2026. U.S. self-serve payroll is bundled with Deel HR and priced per employee with no base fee: Core $22, Advanced $39, Elite $49. PEO Starter on the same page is $110 per employee. Deel HR + Deel Payroll — US (Core) (payroll): base $0, per employee $22, per contractor not published. Contractor billing: not published. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Deel HR + Deel Payroll — US (Advanced) (payroll): base $0, per employee $39, per contractor not published. Contractor billing: not published. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Deel HR + Deel Payroll — US (Elite) (payroll): base $0, per employee $49, per contractor not published. Contractor billing: not published. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan. Deel HR + PEO Starter (Core) (peo): base $0, per employee $110, per contractor not published. Contractor billing: not published. Tax filing: included. States: all included. Extra state fee: not published on this plan.

No matching published price

These vendors do not have a stored contractor price. Their contractor fee is not published. The employee plan price is shown only as the ordinary payroll record, not as a contractor quote.

ADP RUN

Nothing in the stored pricing page matches this use case. The ordinary payroll record is: ADP RUN is Quote only as of Nov 10, 2026. Quote only. ADP does not publish a RUN list price. A direct fetch of the packages page on November 10, 2026 returned HTTP 403 from this environment.

Paychex Flex

Nothing in the stored pricing page matches this use case. The ordinary payroll record is: Paychex Flex is Quote only as of Nov 10, 2026. Quote only. The compare page describes Paychex Flex and tells visitors to contact sales. No monthly or per-employee list price is published.

SurePayroll

Nothing in the stored pricing page matches this use case. The ordinary payroll record is: SurePayroll has conflicting published prices as of Nov 10, 2026, so it is not ranked. The pricing page was fetched, and it does not agree with itself. Full Service appears as both $29 and $39 plus $7 per employee. The plan where you file taxes appears as both $20 and $29 plus $4 per employee. No single price is shown in the comparison.

Hourly

Nothing in the stored pricing page matches this use case. The ordinary payroll record is: Hourly is Quote only as of Nov 10, 2026. Quote only. The pricing page names Gold, Platinum, and Platinum+ and describes a monthly fee plus a per-employee fee, then says to request a quote. No dollar amounts are listed.

Rippling

Nothing in the stored pricing page matches this use case. The ordinary payroll record is: Rippling is Quote only as of Nov 10, 2026. Quote only for payroll. The pricing page says Rippling Payroll pricing depends on headcount and products, and asks you to request a quote.

BambooHR Payroll

Nothing in the stored pricing page matches this use case. The ordinary payroll record is: BambooHR Payroll is Quote only as of Nov 10, 2026. Quote only. Payroll is an add-on on the pricing page. The add-on lists direct deposit and federal and state tax filing, and it does not list a price.

Published price at 10 employees

The list below is the ordinary rank: 10 employees, 0 contractors, 1 state, tax filing included, and PEO plans left out. It is not a special price for the topic of this page. Quote only and conflicting vendors stay unlabeled with a dollar amount. Annual figures are the monthly list price times 12. Promotional months are not applied.

• Patriot Payroll Full Service Payroll: $87 a month ($1,044 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• Square Payroll Full-service payroll: $95 a month ($1,140 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• Wave Payroll U.S. full-access payroll: $100 a month ($1,200 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• Gusto Simple: $109 a month ($1,308 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• Homebase Payroll Homebase Payroll: $109 a month ($1,308 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• OnPay Payroll Essentials: $109 a month ($1,308 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• QuickBooks Payroll Workforce Payroll: $120 a month ($1,440 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• Roll by ADP Roll: $129 a month ($1,548 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• Justworks Payroll: $130 a month ($1,560 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• Deel Deel HR + Deel Payroll — US (Core): $220 a month ($2,640 a year at twelve times the monthly list price).
• SurePayroll: conflicting published prices, not ranked.
• ADP RUN: Quote only.
• BambooHR Payroll: Quote only.
• Hourly: Quote only.
• Paychex Flex: Quote only.
• Rippling: Quote only.

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