Even the most meticulous and experienced human resources professionals find that handling payroll can be a headache. Slap on potential stiff penalties for tax filing omissions, and now we are suddenly talking about a full-blown, financially-induced migraine.

In addition, the person who handles your payroll system needs to keep up to date on changes in personnel, deadlines, and tax requirements on an ongoing basis.

Payroll outsourcing can be an affordable way to remove this burden. If your employees work varying amounts of hours each week or if you have significant turnover, a payroll service can be a time-saving and cost-effective alternative to internal processing.

Finding the right payroll service can also be helpful if you have to pay payroll taxes for multiple states.

Even if your payroll expenses are quite stable, companies with more than 10 employees may find that the time saved by an outsourcing payroll system easily makes up for the low costs.