Category 03 · Hiring, paying, keeping

Team & Benefits

Payroll, health benefits, retirement and retention. What a benefit costs versus what a raise costs.

1 product reviewed · 5 guides · scored against a published rubric

Reviewed

What can I offer that a bigger competitor cannot?

Scores are out of 100 against five weighted criteria. The badge on each row tells you whether we own it, get paid for it, or get nothing.

Coverage

Missing something in team?

Tell us what you are trying to buy and we will review it. We publish what we find, including when the honest answer is that nothing in the category is worth it.

Independent reviews, calculators and guides for the things small businesses actually pay for. We publish our scoring rubric, we say who pays us on every page, and we tell you when the answer is to buy nothing.

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