Patriot Payroll Pricing Overview

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Basic Payroll

Starting at $17.00

Per Month

$17/mo + $4 per employee or 1099 contractor. For USA business owners with 1-500 employees. You run payroll and handle your own taxes.

Full-Service Payroll

Starting at $37.00

Per Month

$37/mo + $5 per employee or 1099 contractor. For USA business owners with 1-500 employees. You run payroll, but let us handle the payroll tax filings.

Free USA-based Setup & Support

Free Direct Deposit or Printable Checks

No Tax Tables to Download

Print W-2's (no forms needed)

Free Employee Portal

Deposit and File Federal Payroll Taxes

Deposit and File State Payroll Taxes

Deposit and File Local Payroll Taxes (no extra charge)

End-of-the-year Filing Completed for You

Easily Customize Deductions and Contributions

Time-off Accruals

Free Accounting Integration

Free Workers' Comp Integration

Guaranteed Accurate Payroll Calculations

Guaranteed Accurate Payroll Tax Filings

Free 401(k) Integration

Patriot's payroll is fast, simple, and affordable. Customers save hundreds each year—without sacrificing quality.

Basic Payroll: $17/month + $4 per employee/1099 contractor

Full Service Payroll: $37/month + $4 per employee/1099 contractor

Patriot Payroll has 2 pricing editions, from $17 to $37. A free trial of Patriot Payroll is also available. Look at different pricing editions below and see what edition and features meet your budget and needs.

Pricing information for Patriot Payroll is supplied by the software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase Patriot Payroll must be conducted with the seller.

Your cost is based on the number of employees/1099 contractors you run payroll for in a given month. Pay monthly as you go, and cancel at any time without penalty!

Pricing information was last updated on March 04, 2025

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Gusto Simple Plan	Starting at $49.00Per Month	For small businesses or s-corps needing basic payroll. Full-service single-state payroll including W-2s and 1099s Basic support Employee profiles and self-service Basic hiring and onboarding tools Gusto-brokered health insurance administration Employee financial benefits Payroll and time-off reports Custom admin permissions Basic PTO policies and holiday pay Integrations for accounting, time tracking, expense management, and more Show More
QuickBooks Desktop Pro QuickBooks Premier 2017	$499.95	Skip the high cost networking with QuickBooks Plus Hosting Service powered by Right Networks. One-time payment 60-day money-back guarantee
OnPay Simple, Transparent Pricing	Starting at $49.00	Our monthly simple, transparent pricing is just $49 plus $6 per person each month — the best value among premium payroll providers. No hidden fees. Price includes: Unlimited monthly pay runs Tax filings and payments (including W-2s) A full set of HR tools Integrations with QuickBooks, Xero, and more Free migration from your old provider

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Pricing information for the above various Patriot Payroll alternatives is supplied by the respective software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase any of these products must be conducted with the seller.

Patriot Payroll Pricing Reviews

(2)

Corey L.

Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/30/2023

"Look nowhere else!"

5/5

What do you like best about Patriot Payroll?

Patriot Payroll is easy, affordable, and highly functional. Direct deposit and automatic tax filing really round out the offerings and make our life so much easier! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Patriot Payroll?

Some additional integrations would be nice. Our scheduling/time tracking app doesn't integrate, so we must manually enter hours. Fortunately, it's easy... but it is time-consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/29/2025

"Does not know what they are doing!"

0/5

What do you like best about Patriot Payroll?

Pricing is attractive,

They promise nice employee features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Patriot Payroll?

In our experience as a company providing payroll services to our customers, Patriot was an attractive option switching from Intuit, but as the process continued, Patriot continued to throw up hurdle after hurdle in front of all of our clients as we attempted to switch from Intuit over to Patriot. Even after we provided person letters from the owners with copies of their driver's licenses and Patriot was able to validate the existence of their businesses, even then Patriot refused to validate our clients with lots of excuses around every corner.

Patriot uses a hands-off style of support with least-effort approach. you'll get an email from a support person that says one thing, you'll call and get a different answer, and every suggestion includes self-help alternatives instead of real answers.

It just isn't worth the aggravation they create. There's no consistency of support, & even after providing every single piece of requested information they required just to get started, none of our companies could be "validated" through their insane system of roadblocks popping up at every turn, and we've been doing accounting for 30 years.

We're shutting it down; and their failure is causing us to compensate our customers for the time we bill for getting Patriot Payroll setup. They have an accountant's program, but it is an abject failure in every single sense.

My advice, if you're an accountant, just don't ever go there. Ever. We gave them everything they asked for for 3 months planning the switch-over to patriot & they could not get over simple company validation. They just don't appear to be capable of sorting even the basic stuff out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.