Payroll services for marketing agencies
Accurate, on-time payroll every cycle — including the multi-state complexity that comes with remote creative teams — handled by the same firm that keeps your books.
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Payroll is the one thing you cannot get wrong: employees notice immediately, and mistakes are expensive with tax authorities. We process payroll accurately and on time every cycle, manage the filings and withholdings, and keep it all reconciled to your books — so it is one less thing you think about.
Agencies increasingly hire wherever the talent is, which means multi-state payroll, registrations, and compliance most owners never wanted to learn. We handle that complexity, keeping you compliant as your team spreads across state lines.
Connected to the rest of your finance function
Because payroll runs inside the same team that handles your bookkeeping and controllership, it is integrated with QuickBooks and reconciled automatically — no month-end surprises, no disconnect between what you paid and what your P&L shows. Payroll, your single biggest expense, ties cleanly into your reporting.
The reconciliation itself is owned by your fractional controller, who ties each run back to the general ledger as part of the monthly close rather than leaving it as a year-end surprise.
What’s included
- Full payroll processing on your cycle
- Multi-state registration and compliance
- Tax filings, withholdings, and year-end forms
- QuickBooks integration and reconciliation
- Contractor (1099) payments and reporting
- New-hire and termination payroll setup
Who we provide this to
We work exclusively with the industries we come from:
Common questions
Can you handle multi-state payroll for a distributed agency team?
Yes. Remote creative teams routinely trigger payroll obligations in multiple states. We manage the registrations, withholdings, and filings so you stay compliant wherever your people work.
Do you handle both W-2 employees and 1099 contractors?
Yes. Agencies run on a mix of staff and freelancers, so we process W-2 payroll and 1099 contractor payments together, handle year-end forms for both, and keep worker classification clean — the line that gets agencies in trouble when it blurs.
How does payroll connect to the rest of our finances?
Because payroll runs inside the same team that handles your bookkeeping and controllership, it’s integrated with QuickBooks and reconciled automatically. Your single biggest expense ties cleanly into your P&L — no month-end surprises, no gap between what you paid and what your reporting shows.
Can you take over payroll from our current provider?
Yes. We migrate your setup, verify prior filings and state registrations, and run the first cycles carefully to confirm everything ties out — so the handoff is invisible to your team and your people are paid accurately and on time throughout.
Let's talk about your Payroll.
Tell us where things stand today, and we'll show you what senior, agency-specific support looks like — without the full-time cost.
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