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Running payroll for a small business: pay schedules, payroll records and employer basics.
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Small Business PayrollHow to Do Payroll for a Small Business
How to do payroll for a small business: set up, hiring paperwork, one paycheck from gross to net, what an employee really costs, and every deadline.
Small Business PayrollWhat Is a Payroll Register? With a Free Template
What a payroll register records, a four-person pay run filled in, the employer taxes it leaves out, how to use the totals, and a free Excel template.
Small Business PayrollEmployment Verification Letter: What to Include, With a Template
What an employment verification letter includes, a free template and Word download, a filled-in example, when to share pay, and the state laws that require one.
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Small Business PayrollHow to Do Payroll for a Small Business
How to do payroll for a small business: set up, hiring paperwork, one paycheck from gross to net, what an employee really costs, and every deadline.
Small Business PayrollWhat Is a Payroll Register? With a Free Template
What a payroll register records, a four-person pay run filled in, the employer taxes it leaves out, how to use the totals, and a free Excel template.
Small Business PayrollEmployment Verification Letter: What to Include, With a Template
What an employment verification letter includes, a free template and Word download, a filled-in example, when to share pay, and the state laws that require one.
Small Business PayrollSalary to Hourly: How to Work Out Your Hourly Rate
Divide the salary by the hours worked in a year. Common salaries as hourly rates, your real rate when weeks run long, and the rate a contractor would need.
Small Business PayrollHourly to Salary: How to Convert, With a Table
Multiply the hourly rate by weekly hours and 52 weeks. A table of common rates, what unpaid weeks and overtime change, and how to weigh a salaried offer.
Small Business PayrollHow to Calculate Overtime Pay (With Examples)
The overtime formula worked five ways: a 46-hour week, a bonus, two pay rates, a biweekly period and a salary, plus the new overtime deduction.
Small Business PayrollBiweekly vs semimonthly pay: what is the difference?
Biweekly pays 26 times a year, semimonthly 24. See one salary on both schedules, why hourly checks swing, overtime timing and which to choose.
Small Business PayrollIRS mileage rate 2026: what changed on July 1
The 2026 IRS mileage rate changed on July 1. See every 2026 rate, which rate applies to which miles, a worked example and the reimbursement rules.
Small Business PayrollHow many pay periods are in a year? (2026 and 2027)
How many pay periods are in a year: 52 weekly, 26 biweekly, 24 semimonthly, 12 monthly, plus which 2026 and 2027 schedules get 53 or 27.