Payroll plus HR pricing in the US: 12 published plans from $109 to $400 a month for 10 employees, including Paycor's $99 + $5 small-business tier
Last updated: 2026-10-03
Short version
- Twelve US plans that bundle HR features with payroll carry a published price. For 10 employees they run from $109 a month (Homebase Basic plus the payroll add-on) to $400 (Gusto Premium).
- Per employee that is $10.90 to $40.00. The only bundle that matches payroll-only Gusto Simple ($109 at 10) is Homebase Basic plus payroll, and Basic is capped at one location and 10 employees.
- Paycor's small-business page published Basic $99 + $5, Essential $149 + $6, Complete $199 + $7 and HCM $199 + $12 on 2026-10-03. The dataset now records these plans for businesses with fewer than 50 employees.
- Rippling, Paylocity, Paychex Flex and ADP RUN sell payroll-and-HR packages without a published price, so they cannot sit in the table.
The table, ordered by the 10-employee total
List prices only, base fee plus per-employee fee times headcount, no promotions. Homebase is the $49 + $6 payroll add-on plus the per-location plan fee. Justworks is the 2026-09-06 reading; its page could not be re-read on 2026-10-03. Gusto could not be re-read either, so its figures are from 2026-09-27.
| # | Plan | How the price is built | 5 | 10 | Per employee at 10 | 25 | 50 | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homebase Basic + payroll | $0 + $49 + $6 x n (max 10 employees, 1 location) | $79 | $109 | $10.90 | n/a | n/a | 2026-10-03 |
| 2 | Justworks Payroll | $50 + $8 x n | $90 | $130 | $13.00 | $250 | $450 | 2026-09-06 |
| 3 | Homebase Essentials + payroll | $30 per location + $49 + $6 x n | $109 | $139 | $13.90 | $229 | $379 | 2026-10-03 |
| 4 | Paycor Basic | $99 + $5 x n | $124 | $149 | $14.90 | $224 | $349 | 2026-10-03 |
| 5 | OnPay HR bundle (lowest) | $70 + $10 x n | $120 | $170 | $17.00 | $320 | $570 | 2026-10-03 |
| 6 | Homebase Plus + payroll | $70 per location + $49 + $6 x n | $149 | $179 | $17.90 | $269 | $419 | 2026-10-03 |
| 7 | Gusto Plus | $80 + $12 x n | $140 | $200 | $20.00 | $380 | $680 | 2026-09-27 |
| 8 | Paycor Essential | $149 + $6 x n | $179 | $209 | $20.90 | $299 | $449 | 2026-10-03 |
| 9 | Homebase All-in-One + payroll | $120 per location + $49 + $6 x n | $199 | $229 | $22.90 | $319 | $469 | 2026-10-03 |
| 10 | Paycor Complete | $199 + $7 x n | $234 | $269 | $26.90 | $374 | $549 | 2026-10-03 |
| 11 | Paycor HCM | $199 + $12 x n | $259 | $319 | $31.90 | $499 | $799 | 2026-10-03 |
| 12 | Gusto Premium | $180 + $22 x n | $290 | $400 | $40.00 | $730 | $1,280 | 2026-09-27 |
| ref | Gusto Simple (payroll only) | $49 + $6 x n | $79 | $109 | $10.90 | $199 | $349 | 2026-09-27 |
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The order moves with headcount. At 25, Paycor Basic ($224) drops below Homebase Essentials plus payroll ($229). At 50, Paycor Basic's $349 is the lowest of the twelve and equal to payroll-only Gusto Simple, because its $5 per-employee fee is small and the $99 base thins out as the headcount grows. OnPay's bundle moves the other way: at $10 per employee it sits fifth at 10 employees and eighth at 50. The calculator runs the same formula for whatever number you type in.
Paycor: four published small-business plans
This site's dataset read paycor.com/pricing/ on 2026-08-20, found no dollar figure and classified Paycor as quote-only. On 2026-10-03, paycor.com/plans-pricing/small-business/ printed four plans with prices: Basic $99 + $5, Essential $149 + $6, Complete $199 + $7, HCM $199 + $12 (monthly base, per employee per month), with a "Get 50% OFF for 6 months" promotion. The dataset, Paycor's vendor page and the transparency index now reflect the published small-business prices. The page is explicitly for businesses with fewer than 50 employees.
Complete and HCM share the $199 base; the difference is $7 against $12 per employee, which is $50 a month at 10 employees, $125 at 25 and $250 at 50.
Homebase: a per-location fee and a 10-employee ceiling on Basic
Homebase's payroll is an add-on "on top of any plan," at $49 + $6 per employee paid. The plan underneath is the scheduling and time product and is billed per location. Basic is $0 but limited to one location and 10 employees. From the eleventh employee you need Essentials ($30 per location, $24 billed annually), Plus ($70, or $56 annually) or All-in-One ($120, or $96 annually). That is why Basic reads n/a at 25 and 50 in the table, and a second location doubles the plan fee.
On 2026-10-03 the page carried a "6 Months Free: Payroll & Plus Plan ... Limited time offer" banner. The table, being list prices, leaves it out. The one-to-one comparison with Gusto is in Gusto vs Homebase.
OnPay's bundle changed between readings
The dataset still carries a 2026-09-07 note reading "HR add-on +$15 base and $2/worker," which would make 10 employees $64 + $8 x 10 = $144. By 2026-10-03 the page had been rearranged into three HR bundles: the lowest at $70 + $10 (with $79 + $12 struck through), then $120 + $7 and $130 + $10. The bundle names were not captured. The table uses the new $70 + $10, and the $144 stays here as the older reading. Payroll-only Payroll Essentials is unchanged at $49 + $6, with a first-month-free offer on the page.
Gusto has three tiers, Justworks has one
Gusto Simple ($49 + $6) does not include multi-state payroll; Plus ($80 + $12) and Premium ($180 + $22) do. That is as far as this site's dataset reads the difference between the tiers; the HR side is described in article-11. At 10 employees the step from Simple to Plus is $91 a month and from Plus to Premium $200.
Justworks Payroll ($50 + $8) is the price of its payroll software, a different product from its PEO Basic ($79 per employee, no base fee) and PEO Plus ($124). At 10 employees that is $130 against $790 and $1,240; article-11 has the PEO side in a table.
Payroll plus HR without a published price
- Rippling: "Tell us what services you need, and we'll send you a custom quote." The "starts at $8" figure was withdrawn on 2026-09-06.
- Paylocity: a "Get Pricing" form and "Request a Demo." No figure.
- Paychex Flex Select, Pro and Enterprise: "Get Your Free Quote." No figure.
- ADP RUN: four packages (Essential, Enhanced, Complete Payroll & HR Plus, HR Pro Payroll & HR), "Get pricing." No figure; only the "3 months free" promotion is shown.
- TriNet HR Plus (ASO): quote required.
None of these can be placed among the twelve. What the table gives you is the yardstick: $109 to $400 a month at 10 employees is where a quote would land if it were published. The UK version of this comparison is at best/uk-payroll-hr-10-24; the currency is different, so the two never share a table.
Who this is not for
This is a price ranking, not a comparison of how good the HR features are. "With HR" means different things at each vendor, and this site's dataset does not record the HR feature list (it records the payroll-side items: tax filing, multi-state, year-end forms and so on). The figures are published list prices, not quotes or post-discount bills. The scope is US plans; Paycor is the 2026-10-03 reading, Gusto 2026-09-27, Justworks 2026-09-06. We have not used any of these products.
Sources
- https://www.paycor.com/plans-pricing/small-business/, checked 2026-10-03
- https://www.paycor.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-03 (no figure; the dataset's 2026-08-20 reading of this URL is the basis of the "quote only" classification)
- https://onpay.com/payroll/software/costs-pricing/, checked 2026-10-03
- https://www.joinhomebase.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-03
- https://gusto.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-27 (page could not be re-read 2026-10-03)
- https://www.justworks.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-06 (page could not be re-read 2026-10-03)
- https://www.rippling.com/pricing, https://www.paylocity.com/pricing/, https://www.paychex.com/payroll, https://www.adp.com/what-we-offer/payroll/payroll-for-1-49-employees/payroll-packages.aspx, checked 2026-10-03 (no figures)
- https://seatbill.com/payroll-pricing/research/transparency-index, what each vendor publishes
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Written by Kaz (pen name). Figures are copied from vendors' published pricing pages on the dates shown. We have not used these products.
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Published September 27, 2026. The figures above come from the government and vendor pages listed under Sources.
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