Payroll that runs itself with a human you can call.
Full-service payroll for Georgia small businesses, integrated with your accounting and tax planning.
Payroll Services
Who this is for
Any Georgia small business with employees — from the first hire to fifty-plus. We work especially well with trades and home services, restaurants, healthcare practices, and any business where payroll has to interact with tips, prevailing wages, multiple pay rates, or job costing.
What it usually costs
Payroll service generally starts around $125 to $200 per month for a small team and scales with employee count and complexity (multi-state, job costing, tipped employees, certified payroll, etc.). We’ll quote your exact monthly fee in the Solution Meeting.
What’s included
Payroll processing
Weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly payroll. Direct deposit. Pay stubs. Time-off tracking. The kind of dependable payroll your team should never have to think about.
Payroll tax filings
Federal, Georgia, and any other states you operate in. Filed and paid on time. W-2s, W-3s, and 941s handled.
New hire reporting
State new-hire reporting taken care of automatically when you onboard someone new.
1099 contractors
Pay your 1099 contractors through the same system. Year-end 1099s prepared and filed.
Multi-state payroll
If you have remote employees, employees who travel, or crews working in other states, we handle the state registrations, withholding, and unemployment in each one.
Benefits and retirement deductions
Health insurance, HSAs, 401(k)s, Simple IRAs, garnishments, child support — set up correctly and reflected on every paycheck.
A real human you can reach
Payroll questions go to a person, not a queue. If something looks off, we look at it the same day.
Which payroll platform do you use?
We work in a handful of modern cloud platforms, depending on what fits your business best. We’ll recommend the right one in the Solutions Meeting. You won’t end up on something we don’t support.
Can SDA take over payroll from my current provider?
Yes, and we’ve done it dozens of times. We handle the platform migration, the year-to-date import, the tax-agency switchovers, and the first run together with you so nothing slips.
What if I pay people in multiple states?
We handle multi-state payroll regularly. Each new state means a few setup steps (state tax registration, unemployment account, sometimes local taxes), and we run that process for you.
Can you pay 1099 contractors through payroll?
Yes. They’re paid out of the same platform, and we generate 1099s at year-end.
What happens if a tax notice shows up for payroll?
Send it to us. We resolve payroll notices the same way we resolve income tax notices — respond on your behalf, document the fix, and explain what happened.
Do you offer HR support?
We’re not an HR firm, but the platforms we use include HR tools (onboarding paperwork, e-signature, basic policy templates). For deeper HR needs we have strong referral partners in Georgia.