Managed Payroll · Payroll Outsourcing
Most payroll outsourcing companies bury pricing behind a sales call and a quote that changes after onboarding. BEG runs your entire payroll operation at $25-$45 per employee per month, all-inclusive, in your existing system. No migration required.
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Why Companies Outsource Payroll
Three reasons come up in almost every conversation with a company shopping payroll outsourcing companies: time, penalty risk, and expertise. Payroll rules change every year, at the federal level and in every state a company has an employee. Keeping one internal hire current on all of it, while also expecting them to run error-free cycles every single pay period, is a hard ask. Outsourcing payroll services moves that burden to a team whose entire job is staying current.
What a Fully Managed Service Covers
Wages, hours, deductions, and pay runs handled start to finish, on whatever schedule your company runs today: weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly.
Withholding, deposits, and quarterly and annual filings handled and filed on time, in every state where you have an employee.
Prepared, filed, and delivered without your team chasing forms or reconciling totals at year-end.
State new hire reporting, minimum wage changes, and payroll-related regulatory updates tracked and applied without you having to monitor them.
Child support orders, tax levies, and other garnishments calculated and remitted correctly, on the legally required schedule.
One person who knows your account, not a rotating support queue or a ticket number.
How It Works
We review your current payroll setup, headcount, and complexity. You get a fixed monthly cost before anything moves.
We work inside your existing payroll platform, whether that is isolved, another provider, or an internal system. No migration required to get started.
Every pay cycle, every filing, every compliance update, fully managed by BEG. Your team reviews and approves. We do the rest.
One of the biggest reasons companies delay outsourcing payroll services is the assumption that it requires ripping out their current platform. It does not. BEG operates as your managed payroll team inside the system you already run, isolved included. If a platform change makes sense down the road, we can handle that too, but it is never a requirement to get started.
Cost of Outsourcing Payroll
BEG prices managed payroll at $25 to $45 per employee per month, all-inclusive, with a $500 monthly minimum. That rate covers payroll processing, tax filing, compliance updates, year-end W-2s, and a dedicated point of contact. There is no separate line item for filing, no upcharge for corrections, and no add-on fee revealed after you sign. The number you are quoted is the number you pay.
Search "payroll outsourcing companies" and almost none of the major payroll service providers list a price. That is by design: pricing is built to flex based on what a sales rep thinks you will pay, then layered with implementation fees, per-report charges, and support tiers that only get disclosed once you are mid-negotiation. It is not that outsourcing payroll services is inherently expensive to price. It is that opaque pricing gives the vendor room to charge more when a buyer has less information.
A fully loaded in-house payroll specialist runs $70,000 to $100,000 per year once you count salary, benefits, software, and training. On a 50-employee team, BEG's fully managed service runs roughly $15,000 to $27,000 per year at $25-$45 PEPM, all-inclusive. That comparison holds even before accounting for the penalty risk and time cost of running payroll processing in-house without a dedicated specialist.
See the full breakdown on our managed payroll pricing page, or run your own numbers on the payroll cost calculator.
Choosing a Provider
If a payroll service company will not tell you a price range before a sales call, treat that as a signal, not a formality. Ask specifically what is included in the base rate and what triggers an additional charge.
Some payroll processing companies only operate on their own proprietary software, which means switching providers means switching systems, retraining your team, and re-entering historical data. Ask whether the provider can run payroll inside the platform you already use.
Ask who handles your account after onboarding. A support inbox that assigns a different rep to every ticket is a different service model than a dedicated specialist who already knows your payroll setup.
Ask directly how the provider handles a missed filing or late deposit, and who is responsible for the resulting penalty. A payroll outsourcing company confident in its process will have a straightforward answer.
Curious how specific platforms stack up against each other before you commit to a provider? See our ADP vs. Paychex comparison. And if payroll is only part of what you need managed, our HR outsourcing services cover the rest of the employee lifecycle.
What You Get
Common objection: "Switching payroll providers means switching platforms."
BEG operates as your managed payroll team inside your current system, isolved or otherwise. If a platform change makes sense later, we can handle that too, but it is never a requirement to get started.
Common objection: "Payroll service providers always add fees for every little thing."
The $25-$45 PEPM rate is all-inclusive: payroll processing, tax filing, compliance updates, year-end W-2s, and support. One number, everything included, quoted before you sign anything.
Common objection: "Payroll vendors disappear after onboarding."
Your BEG payroll specialist is your ongoing contact. When something changes, a new hire, a state registration, a compliance update, you send one message. There is no ticket queue and no 1-800 number. Your team has a real person who knows your account.
The Math on Waiting
An in-house payroll specialist costs $70,000 to $100,000 per year in fully loaded compensation. Fully managed payroll at $25-$45 PEPM on a 50-person team runs roughly $15,000 to $27,000 per year. Every month spent running payroll manually is a month of penalty risk, corrections, and staff time that should be going toward growing the business.
Your Next Transition Window
Payroll transitions typically take 30-60 days. If you want a clean cutover at Q3, Q4, or January 1, the window to start is now. Companies that miss the quarter-start timing usually wait another three months, and the savings deferred are gone for good.
15 minutes. We scope your payroll, give you a fixed monthly cost, and show you what transition looks like.
FAQ
BEG prices fully managed payroll at $25-$45 per employee per month, all-inclusive, with a $500 monthly minimum. That covers processing, tax filing, compliance updates, year-end W-2s, and dedicated support, with no hidden add-on fees.
No. BEG operates as your managed payroll team inside your existing system, isolved or otherwise. Migration is an option, never a requirement to get started.
Transparent, published pricing instead of a sales-call quote, no forced platform migration, and a dedicated point of contact instead of a rotating support queue.
Most transitions take 30-60 days from scope review to first managed payroll run. We handle setup and testing, and your team reviews and approves before anything goes live.
Payroll processing every cycle, federal and state tax filing, new hire reporting, compliance updates, year-end W-2s and 1099s, and a dedicated BEG contact.
Companies from roughly 5 to 500 employees see the clearest savings, since they are large enough to need real payroll expertise but often too small to justify a full-time, dedicated in-house payroll specialist.
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