The Service
What's running behind the scenes
- Payroll processed on your cadence, weekly, bi-weekly, or semi-monthly, through Payworks or Wagepoint.
- Source deductions (CPP, EI, federal and provincial income tax) calculated and remitted to the CRA on schedule, every time.
- Employee onboarding and offboarding paperwork, including Records of Employment (ROEs).
- Year-end T4 and T4A preparation and filing, reconciled against your books before they go out.
- Vacation pay, overtime and statutory holiday pay calculated correctly by province.
- A direct line to your payroll administrator when an employee has a pay question, not a call centre.
Pricing Strategy
A base retainer, plus a per-employee fee
Payroll scales with headcount, so we price it the same way, a flat monthly base that covers remittances and compliance, plus a small per-cheque fee that grows only as your team does.
Base Retainer
Monthly Platform & Compliance Fee
$100-$150
Covers CRA remittance management, T4/T4A prep and platform administration
Per Employee
Per Pay-Cheque Processing Fee
$5-$10 / cheque
Scales cleanly whether you run 3 employees or 30
Worked example
A 9-employee retail business running bi-weekly payroll: a $125/month base retainer plus 9 employees × 2 pay periods/month × $7/cheque ≈ $126/month in per-employee fees, a fully managed payroll function for roughly $251/month, versus the cost of running it in-house.
Why It's High-Margin, Not High-Risk
Automation does the arithmetic. We own the compliance.
Platforms like Payworks and Wagepoint handle the calculation engine, tax tables, statutory holiday rules, vacation accrual. Our job is making sure the inputs are right, the remittances land on time, and the year-end slips match your books to the dollar.
Bundled Savings
Pairs naturally with bookkeeping
Payroll data flows directly into your monthly reconciliation, which is why it's included at no extra platform fee inside every Virtual Finance Department bundle from The Scale Package upward.
See bundled packages →Never miss a remittance deadline again.
Tell us your headcount and pay schedule, we'll quote your all-in monthly payroll cost same-day.