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

Square Payroll price history

Square Payroll price history on PayrollPriceWatch. Current pricing status: public. Last checked Nov 10, 2026. Source: https://squareup.com/us/en/payroll/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://squareup.com/us/en/payroll/pricing.

Full-service payroll: base $35, per employee $6, per contractor $6.
Contractor-only payroll: base $0, per employee $0, per contractor $6.

Change log

No separate change entry is stored for Square Payroll. 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: unchanged. Extracted prices match the latest snapshot.

Current plan file

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.

Notes stored from the source

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.
Mailing paper W-2s or 1099s is $3 per form per year. Digital delivery is included.

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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