Price history · every entry keeps the old value

What changed: payroll pricing changes and corrections, by month

September 2026

18 entries across 7 vendors: 16 on the vendor's side, 2 correcting our own data.

Deel

• 2026-09-06 — price change on the vendor's page PEO: per-employee fee $95 → $125. US PEO list price on the vendor pricing page source

OnPay

• 2026-09-06 — correction to our data pricing page address https://onpay.com/pricing → https://onpay.com/payroll/software/costs-pricing/. The vendor moved its pricing page source
• 2026-09-06 — plan renamed by the vendor Payroll Essentials: plan name OnPay Payroll → Payroll Essentials. Vendor renamed the plan source

Papaya Global

• 2026-09-06 — plan renamed by the vendor all plans: published plan line-up Full-Service Payroll 12; Payroll Platform License 3; Employer of Record 650; Contractor Management 2; Embedded Payments 3; Data and Insights Platform License None; Global Expertise Services 190 → Employer of Record (EOR) 499; Contractor of Record (COR) 199; Contractor solution 5; Payroll Plus 29; Workforce OS None; OnePay None; Contingent OS None. The vendor replaced its published plan line-up. Prices below are the current published starting figures. source
• 2026-09-06 — price change on the vendor's page Employer of Record (EOR): per-employee fee $650 → $499. Published starting figure source

QuickBooks Payroll

• 2026-09-06 — price change on the vendor's page Workforce Payroll + Simple Start: per-employee fee $6.50 → $7. Standard per-employee price source
• 2026-09-06 — price change on the vendor's page Workforce Payroll + Essentials: per-employee fee $6.50 → $7. Standard per-employee price source
• 2026-09-06 — price change on the vendor's page Workforce Premium + Plus: per-employee fee $10 → $13. Standard per-employee price source
• 2026-09-06 — plan renamed by the vendor Workforce Payroll + Simple Start: plan name Payroll + Simple Start → Workforce Payroll + Simple Start. Vendor renamed the plan source
• 2026-09-06 — plan renamed by the vendor Workforce Payroll + Essentials: plan name Payroll + Essentials → Workforce Payroll + Essentials. Vendor renamed the plan source
• 2026-09-06 — plan renamed by the vendor Workforce Premium + Plus: plan name Premium Payroll + Plus → Workforce Premium + Plus. Vendor renamed the plan source
• 2026-09-06 — price change on the vendor's page Workforce Payroll + Essentials: monthly base fee $125 → $135. Standard monthly price source
• 2026-09-06 — price change on the vendor's page Workforce Premium + Plus: monthly base fee $203 → $228. Standard monthly price source

Rippling

• 2026-09-06 — price status changed a starting price only → quote on request. The pricing page no longer carries a figure. It asks which services you need and sends a custom quote. The previously published "starts at $8 a month, per user" is gone. source
• 2026-09-06 — price change on the vendor's page Rippling Unity Platform: per-employee fee $8 → no published figure. The vendor withdrew the published starting price source
• 2026-09-06 — plan renamed by the vendor Rippling Unity Platform: plan name Rippling Unity Platform (starting price) → Rippling Unity Platform. The plan no longer carries a starting price source

Square Payroll

• 2026-09-06 — correction to our data Full-Service Payroll: year-end forms, in the plan a paid add-on → included in the plan. Re-read on the vendor pricing page source

SurePayroll

• 2026-09-06 — price change on the vendor's page Nanny and Household Payroll: monthly base fee $45 → $39. Published price on the vendor pricing page source

How to read this log

Every entry is tagged. price change on the vendor's page, plan renamed by the vendor, price status changed mean the vendor's own published page changed. correction to our data means the vendor's page did not change: we had read it wrongly or incompletely, and the entry says what was wrong. Both kinds stay on the record, and the counts above keep them apart so you can see how much of this log is us.

Only a figure, a plan name, a price status or a pricing page address is recorded here. Re-reading a page and finding the same figure moves the confirmation date on the vendor's page and adds nothing to this log. We do not reconstruct history from before we started checking a vendor, so an empty month means we recorded nothing, not that nothing happened in this market.

Why we keep the old value

A price you cannot check is a price you have to take on trust. Keeping the previous figure next to the current one means you can see whether a vendor moved, by how much, and when we noticed — and whether the number you remember from a month ago was the vendor's or our mistake. The method page sets out the correction policy in full.

Related

• Every vendor, and which of them publish a price
• Work out your own cost, and save the comparison
• How the figures are produced and corrected