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

Gusto price history

Gusto price history on PayrollPriceWatch. Current pricing status: public. Last checked Nov 10, 2026. Source: https://gusto.com/product/pricing.

PayrollPriceWatch keeps a price log beside the current vendor file. A snapshot is the set of plan fees recorded on a check date. A change entry is a separate note when a later source disagrees with an earlier one, when a product is renamed, or when a page publishes two prices for the same plan. A check line is the result of the price-check script for that vendor on that date. The script does not edit the vendor file. One snapshot is still a price history. It says what was published on that date and nothing about the month before. Where the log has only that snapshot, this page says so. It does not backfill an older price from memory, from a competitor roundup, or from a number that was never stored. Quote only and conflicting vendors can appear in a snapshot with no chosen price. A missing dollar is written as not published. Conflicting observations stay side by side until the vendor page agrees with itself.

What the log contains for this vendor

Snapshot 2026-11-10

Initial snapshot. Each figure was read from the vendor source URL on this date. Quote-only and conflicting vendors have no chosen price.

Recorded status on Nov 10, 2026: public. Fetch status: ok. Snapshot source: https://gusto.com/product/pricing.

Simple: base $49, per employee $6, per contractor $6.
Plus: base $80, per employee $12, per contractor $12.
Premium: base $180, per employee $22, per contractor $22.

Change log

No separate change entry is stored for Gusto. The history is the snapshot above, which is one data point. A later increase or decrease is not published here.

Price checks

Nov 10, 2026: fetch failed. HTTP 403

Current plan file

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.

Notes stored from the source

Month-to-month. Unlimited payroll runs on every plan. Charged for active people.
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.
Next-day pay on Simple is an add-on at $15/month plus $3 per person. It is included in Plus and Premium. Same-day pay is $90 per payroll and instant pay is $100 per payroll on Simple and Plus; both are included in Premium.
The pricing page checked on this date lists Simple, Plus, and Premium. It does not list a Contractor Only plan.

Those notes are the evidence for the snapshot. If a fee is not in the notes or the plan fields, it is not published, including setup fees, cancellation fees, and any price from before the first snapshot.

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