Payroll price data
The figures behind our Payroll Price Index, and our price change log, as files you can download and reuse with a credit.
Prices re-confirmed on each provider's own page for 11 services: · last checked by hand for 2 services:
Downloads
- Payroll Price Index, CSV: the lowest, median and highest monthly list price and the median price per employee for 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 employees, with and without Deel. One row for each team size, today and in each quarterly snapshot.
- Payroll Price Index, JSON: the same figures, with the method, the services counted, the dates their prices were checked, the caveats and the licence.
- Price change log, CSV: the 9 entries in our price change log, each with its date, the service, what changed in our own words, its official source (and, when an amount in it comes from another official page, that page too) and a link to its row in the log.
The index CSV's columns: figures ("current" or "snapshot"), snapshot_date, employees, services (how many services have a plan for that team), lowest, median, highest and median_per_employee (US dollars a month), the same without Deel, prices_checked_from and prices_checked_to, and notes (on today's rows, the qualifier and caveats that go with the figures; on a snapshot's rows, its qualifier: how many services it counted and when their prices were checked).
New changes as we record them: Atom feed · JSON feed.
The index files give figures across services only: each service's own prices are on its page on this site. The files are in our own words, with no text copied from providers' websites. The JSON file's "dateModified" is the date the figures, the services counted or the change log last changed; "pricesChecked" says when the prices behind today's figures were last checked, which can move without any figure changing.
What the index measures
Each figure is for W-2 employees only (no contractors), all in one US state, with federal and state payroll taxes filed and paid for you, on each service's cheapest published plan for that team, at standard monthly list prices. Only the services that publish prices are counted: ADP RUN and Rippling don't publish list prices; SurePayroll is left out because its own pages showed different prices. Not counted in the index either: ADP's offer terms price a RUN self-onboarding bundle at $59/month + $4/employee after free months, only for new clients with up to 2 employees in states where offered, or 1-9 employees in Florida, Texas and Georgia (ADP RUN pricing). The figures depend on which services we track, so adding or dropping a service can move them: every row of the files says how many services it counts.
The index files also hold its quarterly snapshots, one for each calendar quarter: so far one, recorded on October 24, 2026.
The method in full, today's figures and the notes on the services behind them: how much payroll services cost.
How to cite
The credit we suggest for the index:
Source: Payroll Price Check, list prices from providers' own websites, checked between October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026
When you quote a figure, please keep its qualifier (which services it is among, that it is a list price, and when the prices were checked) and any caveat that comes with it, as in this sentence:
For 10 employees in one state with payroll taxes filed for you, payroll services cost $87 to $290 a month ($87 to $200 without Deel), with a median of $109 a month or $10.90 per employee (among the 13 US payroll services we track that publish prices; list prices only; checked between October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026; Deel's own blog posts give lower starting prices than its pricing page; Deel's product page describes its self-service option as a way to handle taxes and filings yourself, and suggests its managed option, which has no published price, for hiring across multiple states; Hourly also says to request a quote for exact pricing; Hourly's help center says employees' home address must be in California, so confirm it serves your state).
The index files give today's figures with their qualifier and caveats: in the CSV file's "notes" column, and in "qualifier" and "notes" in the JSON file, whose "serviceNotes" also lists every caveat our data records about the services counted. A snapshot's figures come with their qualifier. For the change log: "Source: Payroll Price Check price change log", with the date of the change.
Licence
CC BY 4.0. A plain-text credit is enough; if you link, rel="nofollow" is fine.
This covers the three files above: the Payroll Price Index and the price change log. It doesn't cover the text of our pages or feeds, which quote providers' own words in places.
Questions and corrections
Questions about the data, or a price you think is out of date: hello@payrollpricecheck.com.
No payroll company owns this site, reviews our pages or pays to be listed. Some providers may pay us a referral fee when someone signs up through our links: that's how the site is funded. It plays no part in these figures: every service that publishes prices is counted the same way, whether it pays us or not. How we make money · About Payroll Price Check