The smart choice for education payroll & HR.
Simplify your school finances with Gusto’s all-in-one payroll & HR. Fully integrated functionality saves you hours each month, all while reducing errors and keeping you compliant. Spend less time on paperwork and more time on what matters most—educating the future.
How Gusto worksCreate account
Streamlined from A to Z
Save hours on admin when payroll, HR, compliance, and benefits are fully integrated in one easy-to-use platform.
Better benefits, happier team
Gusto’s custom-built benefits packages give you the power to attract brighter talent while keeping your team happy and healthy.
Compliance made easy
Secure document storage, built-in compliance, and employee self-service mean a single source of truth for all your sensitive data.
“We love Gusto! Not only on the admin side, but also our educators find it very easy to use. Everything is at our fingertips with Gusto. And when we need help, their customer support is top notch and always available”
School payroll software
Payroll that’s easy to use and seriously smart.
Faculty or staff, salaried or by the hour, Gusto makes it easy to get the whole school paid accurately and on time. All federal, state, and local taxes are automatically calculated, filed, and paid—and time tracking, PTO, and benefits deductions are built right in. Employees can easily clock in and out, and admin can approve timesheets in just a few clicks.
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People-first HR
Empower admin and educators with intuitive HR.
Give a warm welcome to new hires with people-first hiring and onboarding, and keep veteran staff on track with powerful performance management and professional development tools. Our employee self-service portal allows team members to access paystubs and benefits, review and accept school policies, and easily track absences and leave requests, while AI-powered reporting lets admin stay on top of critical data.
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Better benefits
Keep your best and brightest with custom-built benefits.
Benefits are a must-have in the education industry. But Gusto makes it easier to attract and retain talent with custom no-cost, low-cost, and premium packages. We’ve got traditional medical and dental, sure, but add on free financial planning tools, commuter benefits, wellness packages, workers’ comp, and more.
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Built-in compliance
Running a school is hard enough. Let us lighten the load.
Gusto helps take the complexity out of compliance with built-in minimum wage, overtime, ACA and COBRA, as well as new-hire tax registration in all 50 states. Create custom handbooks, stay on top of certifications, and even run background checks on new hires from within Gusto. Our secure platform gives you a single source of truth for everything from tax docs to performance plans, saving time and reducing room for error across the board.
Frequently Asked Questions
Education payroll software is any system that’s built to handle the unique needs of private and public sector education when it comes to managing and paying your team. School HR software should be able to track employee data, manage time off, sick leave, and PTO, let employees access their paystubs, benefits, and more, all while making it easy to get everyone paid accurately and on time each pay period.
Employee Management Software helps manage the responsibilities of human Yes, our school payroll system is designed to accommodate the diverse employment types within the education sector, including full-time, part-time, and substitute teachers, as well as both salaried and hourly employees. We have unlimited pay rates and schedules, so you can easily pay your entire faculty and staff in just a few clicks. Easily approve timesheets for hourly workers, and use Payroll on AutoPilot® to set it and forget it for salaried team members. Whether core faculty or bus driver, vice principal or teaching assistant—we’ve got you covered.
Our software is regularly updated to comply with the latest local, state, and federal educational payroll regulations. It automatically applies relevant tax rates, deduction rules, and benefit entitlements, helping to ensure your school’s payroll stays compliant. We have compliance checklists to keep you on track, and if you’ve got a complex compliance question, you can always reach out to our team of certified HR professionals.
Yes, employees can securely access their payroll information including paystubs, tax forms, and benefits details through our user-friendly online portal. This self-service feature enhances transparency, empowers employees, and reduces administrative workload for school HR services.
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