Payroll Companies & Payroll Services in Pittsburgh, PA

Overview

Padgett Pittsburgh is an independently owned office in the national Padgett network of business advisors, based on Cochran Road in Pittsburgh. It works mainly with small and mid-sized companies in the Pittsburgh area. Its clients are owners who would rather hand bookkeeping, tax work and employee pay to an outside team than handle those tasks themselves.

Payroll is one of four core service lines at the office. The others are tax, accounting and advisory work, and the firm presents all four as connected offerings rather than standalone products.

Payroll services

The office covers the full cycle of paying staff. Its work includes calculating gross-to-net pay, applying deductions and withholdings, and keeping pay dates on schedule. On the tax side, it prepares and submits payroll tax returns at every level of government, including the year-end forms employers owe. It also handles worker paperwork and can answer questions from employees, so the owner does not have to relay them.

• Payroll processing with paper checks or direct deposit
• Federal, state and municipal payroll tax filings
• W-2 and 1099 preparation
• Direct deposit enrollment for staff
• Payroll for part-time staff, independent contractors and workers in multiple states
• Additional HR services offered through ADP

The office runs payroll on the ADP platform, which connects with clients' other accounting tools, and local staff provide hands-on support. The same office can also keep the books and prepare tax returns. That means payroll data feeds into the rest of a client's financial records, which the firm describes as a way to cut errors and duplicated effort.

Pricing is quoted individually after an initial consultation and depends on headcount and complexity. The firm says it serves employers ranging from a couple of workers to a couple hundred.

Beyond payroll

Clients can combine payroll with business and individual tax preparation and planning, monthly accounting, and consulting on budgets, forecasts and cash flow. The office states that it can represent clients before the IRS when disputes arise. The Pittsburgh practice is also structured differently from many providers.

It operates as two cooperating small businesses, the Padgett tax and accounting practice and an affiliated law firm, so clients with legal questions have a direct route to counsel. The website also offers a free employee compensation calculator for estimating the full cost of a hire, with taxes and benefits factored in.

Industries and background

The firm lists experience with the following industries:

• Real estate
• Professional services
• Restaurants and food service
• Retail
• Construction
• Farming
• Healthcare
• Law firms

For food service clients, it notes familiarity with tip reporting and other payroll issues common to bars and restaurants.

Adam Kassab opened the Pittsburgh office in 2014. It belongs to the national Padgett system operated by SmallBizPros, Inc., whose leadership includes CEO Jeff Phillips and president Roger Harris. The network cites more than five decades of business experience. Each Padgett location is independently owned, so the Pittsburgh team offers a local, personal relationship backed by the resources of a larger national organization.