HR recruitment software: HR Payroll Software Pricing Index
The median published figure in the HR Payroll Software Pricing Index is 6 USD across 14 sources' own pages in USD (range 2 to 10 USD; 20 sources publish a figure), read 12 October 2026.
- 32 to 3
- 3 to 5
- 25 to 6
- 66 to 7
- 37 to 9
- 29 to 10
Bands
| Bucket | Value |
|---|---|
| 2 to 3 | 3 figures |
| 3 to 5 | 0 figures |
| 5 to 6 | 2 figures |
| 6 to 7 | 6 figures |
| 7 to 9 | 3 figures |
| 9 to 10 | 2 figures |
20 of the 52 named sources read in full publish a figure; 32 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 6 USD across 11).
By category and pricing model
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| categoryhris | 10USD | 8 to 10USD | 3 |
| categoryhris | 4.13EUR | 1.25 to 7EUR | 2 |
| categorypayroll | 6USD | 6 to 8USD | 6 |
| categorypayroll | 2.4GBP | 2.4 to 2.4GBP | 1 |
| categoryscheduling | 3.75USD | 2.5 to 5USD | 2 |
| categorytime | 4.99EUR | 4.99 to 4.99EUR | 1 |
| categoryexpense | 5USD | 5 to 5USD | 1 |
| categoryexpense | 8EUR | 8 to 8EUR | 1 |
| categoryleave | 2USD | 2 to 2USD | 1 |
| pricing modelbase + PEPM | 3USD | 3 to 3USD | 1 |
| pricing modelflat band | 12GBP | 12 to 12GBP | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
The sentence each figure was read from (23)
- Breathe HR software prices, read 2026-10-11:
From £12 a month / business
- BambooHR plans and pricing, read 2026-10-11:
Depending on the plan you choose, BambooHR pricing starts at $10 USD per employee per month for Core, $17 USD per employee per month for Pro, and $25 USD per employee per month for Elite.
- Employment Hero global teams pricing, read 2026-10-12:
$10
- Justworks PEO and payroll plan pricing, read 2026-10-11:
$8/month per employee
- Factorial pricing plans, read 2026-10-12:
Factorial starts at $8 per month, per user
- Justworks PEO and payroll plan pricing, read 2026-10-11:
$8
- Rydoo pricing, read 2026-10-12:
€8
- QuickBooks Workforce payroll pricing, read 2026-10-12:
$44/mo + $7/employee/mo
- Leapsome pricing, read 2026-10-11:
€7/employee/month
- Gusto pricing, read 2026-10-11:
+ $6/mo per person
- Homebase pricing, read 2026-10-11:
Payroll is available as an add-on product on all plans for a standard $39 base fee / month + $6 per employee paid / month no matter which Homebase plan you choose.
- Xero US pricing plans, read 2026-10-12:
$36 a month + $6 per employee/contractor
- OnPay costs and pricing, read 2026-10-12:
+ $6/worker per month
- OnPay costs and pricing, read 2026-10-12:
Get started at just $49 base + $6/worker per month.
- Expensify plan and pricing reference, read 2026-10-12:
Collect Pay-per-use $5 per unique member/month —
- Deputy pricing, read 2026-10-11:
$5
- Clockify plans and pricing, read 2026-10-11:
(or €4.99 if billed monthly)
- Connecteam pricing, read 2026-10-11:
$3.0 / month for each additional user
- When I Work pricing, read 2026-10-11:
When I Work pricing starts at just $2.50 per user per month for single-location teams, and $5 per user per month for multi-location businesses.
- Timetastic plans and pricing, read 2026-10-12:
per user per month $2.50
- Sage Payroll pricing (UK), read 2026-10-12:
Add additional employees in-product starting at £2.40 per month (Essentials), £4.40 per month (Standard) and £6.40 (Premium).
- Timetastic plans and pricing, read 2026-10-12:
$1.50
- Zoho People pricing, read 2026-10-12:
€1.25
Read in full, publishes no figure
32 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- ADP RUN payroll packages and price comparison, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Rippling pricing, read 2026-10-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BambooHR international pricing, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- OnPay pricing for accountants, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Paycor plans and pricing, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Paycor small business plans, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Deel pricing, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- Square Payroll pricing, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Wave pricing, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- SurePayroll by Paychex pricing, read 2026-10-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Employment Hero Canada pricing, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Paylocity pricing, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BrightHR pricing, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- BrightHR payroll package pricing, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- CharlieHR pricing, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- Workable pricing, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Tellent Recruitee pricing, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Deputy scheduling plan pricing, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- 7shifts plans and pricing, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Lattice pricing, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- 15Five pricing, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Sage HR pricing (US), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Sage Payroll pricing (Canada), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Zoho People Plus pricing, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- PerformYard pricing, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- Breezy HR pricing, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Breezy Perform pricing, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Pleo pricing, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- BrightPay price information, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- BrightPay UK pricing, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- PayFit pricing, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- G2 HR software categories, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
20 of the 52 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 32 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 5 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 413 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): per vendor per category: the published base fee, the per-employee-per-month fee and the plan tiers, each quoted from the vendor's own pricing page; the index is the MEDIAN, MINIMUM and MAXIMUM published price per employee per month by category (payroll, HRIS, ATS, performance, scheduling, time, leave, expense) and by country, the SHARE OF VENDORS THAT PUBLISH A PRICE AT ALL versus quote-only - the figure the category's own vendors will not state - the true cost of a 25-person and a 250-person team once base fees are amortised, and repriced-since the previous read
413 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (57)
- Gusto pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ADP RUN payroll packages and price comparison(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Rippling pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BambooHR plans and pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BambooHR international pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- OnPay costs and pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- OnPay pricing for accountants(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Justworks PEO and payroll plan pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Paycor plans and pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Paycor small business plans(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Deel pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- QuickBooks Workforce payroll pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Square Payroll pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Wave pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SurePayroll by Paychex pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Xero US pricing plans(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Employment Hero Canada pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Employment Hero global teams pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Paylocity pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Personio pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Factorial pricing plans(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Breathe HR software prices(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BrightHR pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BrightHR payroll package pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- CharlieHR pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Workable pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Tellent Recruitee pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Deputy pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Deputy scheduling plan pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- When I Work pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Homebase pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Connecteam pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- 7shifts plans and pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Lattice pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- 15Five pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Expensify plan and pricing reference(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Clockify plans and pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Timetastic plans and pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Sage HR pricing (US)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Sage Payroll pricing (UK)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Sage Payroll pricing (Canada)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Zoho People pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Zoho People Plus pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Leapsome pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- PerformYard pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Breezy HR pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Breezy Perform pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Pleo pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Rydoo pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BrightPay price information(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BrightPay UK pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- PayFit pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Paychex payroll package comparison(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Paychex HR packages(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Patriot Software pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ClockShark pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- G2 HR software categories(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The median published figure in the HR Payroll Software Pricing Index is 6 USD across 14 sources' own pages in USD (range 2 to 10 USD; 20 sources publish a figure), read 12 October 2026.
20 of the 52 named sources read in full publish a figure; 32 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, category hris: median 10 USD across 3 sources, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, category hris: median 4.12 EUR across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, category payroll: median 6 USD across 6 sources, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, category payroll: median 2.40 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, category scheduling: median 3.75 USD across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, category time: median 4.99 EUR across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, category expense: median 5 USD across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, category expense: median 8 EUR across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, category leave: median 2 USD across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, pricing model base + PEPM: median 3 USD across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
HR Payroll Software Pricing Index, pricing model flat band: median 12 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 6 USD across 11).
Cite as: "EOR Compass HR Payroll Software Pricing Index", updated 2026-10-19, https://eorcompass.com/datasets/hr-payroll-software-pricing-index/.
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