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PEO research that reads like a friend who did the homework

Learn what a PEO costs, how co-employment works, and how to compare options for your headcount, industry, and states.

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The core guides

What Is a PEO? Co-Employment, Costs, and Responsibilities

What a PEO does, what co-employment does and does not mean legally, how tax and benefit structures vary, and what employers should verify.

4 min read

How Much Does a PEO Cost? Compare Quotes Without Bad Math

A source-conscious guide to PEO pricing: how to unbundle a proposal, normalize percentage and PEPM fees, test benefits claims, and find contract costs.

5 min read

How to Choose a PEO

A documented PEO selection process: verify the serving entity, normalize quotes, test benefits and service, review tax treatment, and read the contract.

5 min read

Leaving a PEO

A PEO exit plan covering transition dates, CPEO wage-base treatment, state unemployment, benefits replacement, data extraction, and contract notice.

5 min read

PEO Health Insurance

What sits behind a PEO benefits offer: master arrangements, client-specific policies, fully insured vs self-funded, MEWA rules, and the documents to request.

4 min read

PEO Payroll Taxes

How federal employment taxes work inside a PEO: common-law employer rules, Section 3504 agents, CPEO liability, Forms 940, 941, Schedule R, and Form 8973.

4 min read

PEO Wage-Base Restart

How Social Security and FUTA wage bases behave when a company enters or leaves a PEO midyear, including CPEO successor rules and an employee-level worksheet.

9 min read

Comparisons

Compare a PEO with payroll software, an ASO, an EOR, a benefits broker, and other options.