Payroll for your dental practice, simplified.

Gusto streamlines your business, giving you back the time and peace of mind to build the trusted, local practice you’ve always envisioned. Let us take care of complex HR and payroll tasks so you can focus on what matters most: caring for your patients, your team, and your community.

More time for patients, less on paperwork

Designed for busy practitioners, our easy-to-use platform automates the tough stuff so you can focus on building your practice and caring for patients.

Build your dental dream team

We make it easy to offer competitive benefits that fit every budget, helping you retain skilled hygienists, assistants, and front office staff.

Compliance confidence for your practice

With automated tax filings and support for labor law adherence, we dial down the stress for time-constrained dentist-owners and office managers.

Dentist payroll software

Payroll software that ‘gets’ your practice.

Paying your team shouldn’t feel like pulling teeth. With integrated time tracking, shift scheduling, and clock-in kiosks that sync to payroll, you can pay both salaried and hourly team members in minutes. Plus, we’re built to handle complex pay structures including production bonuses, hygiene revenue splits, lab fee deductions, per diem pay, and clinical time clock overrides. Boost your chair-time while knowing payroll is accurate and on time, every time.

Reduce turnover

Give your team something to smile about.

With people-first hiring and onboarding, alongside robust custom benefits packages, you can attract the talent you need to keep your practice humming without breaking the bank. Gusto offers more than 9,000 plans across 30+ carriers with added perks like HSAs & FSAs, 401(k)s, commuter benefits, free financial planning tools, and more—all fully integrated with no extra fees. Get new team members onboarded in minutes with benefits built to keep them around.

Built-in compliance

Take the complexity out of compliance.

Stay on top of evolving wage and labor laws with state-specific compliance updates, while automating key compliance tasks like ACA and EEO-1 reporting. Your team can complete mandatory trainings like HIPAA and sexual harassment from our built-in LMS. And of course, all your federal, state, and local taxes are taken care of every time you run payroll. Got a compliance question? Our team of certified HR pros are just a chat, email, or phone call away.

Flexible growth

You built a practice, we’ll help you scale it.

Gusto is designed to grow with you every step of the way. You can easily hire hygienists, front office staff, and specialist 1099 contractors without the pile of paperwork. Employees can self-manage benefits, PTO, and more—plus, with nearly 150 integrations and custom APIs, we help you leverage the technology you need to grow without adding complexity. Spending less time on admin and more time caring for your community? Now that’s something to smile about.

Frequently Asked Questions

A cloud-based payroll and HR system has several advantages for dental practices, including instant and remote access to data, less paperwork, reducing errors from manual calculations, easy integration with other platforms, and cost-effectiveness.

Absolutely. We understand dentist payroll, and we make it easy to process daily production bonuses, hygiene revenue splits, lab fee deductions, per diem pay, 1099 contractor compensation, and clinical time-clock overrides.

We sure do! Our state-specific compliance updates will help you keep up with changing wage and labor laws, and we automate key compliance tasks like ACA and EEO-1 reporting. Our integrated Learning Management System also makes it easy to keep your team up to date with mandatory trainings such as HIPAA and sexual harassment training. And we offer secure document storage for every employee to keep all your compliance paperwork in one place.

We work with your existing HR system and migrate their data over ourselves, so switching is headache-free. A full 90% of small business customers reported that switching to and setting up Gusto was easy. Why not get the first few steps out of the way today?

We offer a selection of over 9,000 healthcare plans, plus numerous financial benefits, such as low-cost workers’ compensation, commuter benefits, 401(k)s and more. Not to mention the benefit of having it all integrated within one, user-friendly platform. Read about our whole suite of small business benefits.

Feel free to use the chat box in the bottom right corner of your screen. We also have a Help Center with answers, resources, and ways to get in touch with our team directly.

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