Streamlined, Accurate and Fully Supported Payroll Solutions
Payroll Services for Recruiters
Running weekly and monthly payrolls is one of the most demanding parts of operating a recruitment agency. With permanent consultants, temporary workers, differing pay structures, frequently changing rates, commission schemes, benefits and constantly evolving legislation, payroll can quickly absorb valuable management time and create significant compliance risk.
We are your
Payroll advisers, recruitment sector experts
Because recruitment payroll is uniquely complex, agencies often encounter recurring challenges:
• Incorrect or delayed commission calculations which could lead to disputes
• PAYE, NIC or pension errors creating compliance risk
• Miscalculated holiday pay or statutory payments
• Payment delays in paying temps and contractors that could damage relationships
• Over-reliance on manual spreadsheets resulting in avoidable errors and inconsistencies
• Confusion around starters, leavers and mid-period changes
• RTI submissions missed or submitted incorrectly
• Limited visibility of payroll costs and performance incentives.
Our specialist recruitment payroll team eliminates these issues, ensuring your payroll is accurate, compliant and fully aligned with how your agency operates.
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Payroll Advisers Who Understand Recruitment
Our payroll specialists manage the full range of recruitment payroll complexities every day from your in-house consultants to your temporary workers, including varied pay models, commission schemes, benefits, deductions and reimbursements.
We understand the detailed requirements of:
• Permanent and temporary staff
• Commission and bonus structures
• Holiday accruals, AWR and statutory entitlements
• Pensions Auto Enrolment
• PAYE, NIC and benefit-in-kind calculations
• Expense reimbursement processes
• Starters, leavers and mid-period payroll changes
By outsourcing payroll to a recruitment‑focused team, you remain fully compliant with legislation and free from the administrative burden and operational risk of running payroll internally. As a BACS-approved payroll processing bureau, we can run your entire payroll function with minimal input from you. You provide the pay data; we handle everything else.
We provide your Recruitment Agency with
Accurate, Compliant and Fully Managed Payroll
Our fully managed payroll service ensures every aspect of your payroll is processed accurately, submitted on time and fully compliant.
Our payroll outsourcing service includes:
• Payslip production and BACS payments, ensuring your staff and temporary workers are paid correctly and on time
• Accurate calculation of PAYE, NIC and statutory deductions, keeping you compliant every pay period
• Commission and bonus calculations, tailored to your scheme, ensuring accurate and transparent earnings for your consultants
• Processing of statutory payments such as SSP, SMP and SPP
• Pensions Auto Enrolment management, including monthly pension reporting and re-enrolment
• Processing of all starters and leavers, with clean, compliant record updates
• Maintaining accurate holiday accruals for permanent and temporary workers
• RTI submissions filed correctly and on time
• Year-end processing and reporting, including P60 production
• Responding to HMRC queries on your behalf
• Maintaining audit-ready payroll records for complete peace of mind
By handing your payroll to sector specialists, your leadership team can focus on running and growing the business, not chasing paperwork or correcting errors.
Commission Calculations Made Simple
Commission is often the most sensitive part of a recruiter’s earnings, and one of the biggest sources of dispute when not handled accurately.
We build and maintain commission models tailored to your scheme, including:
• Tiered or threshold-based commissions
• Rolling or cumulative targets
• Split-fee arrangements across teams or consultants
• Bonus structures and accelerators
• Clawbacks and adjustments
• GP-based, revenue-based or hybrid models
Your consultants receive clear, accurate commission calculations every pay period, building confidence and minimising disputes.
When to Enlist Our Help
Agencies typically seek our help when payroll becomes too time‑consuming, difficult to manage or error‑prone. Common triggers include overly complex commission schemes, recurring disputes, increasing payroll delays or challenges managing split‑fee arrangements. We also support agencies facing compliance concerns, from Auto Enrolment and P11Ds to general payroll accuracy and HMRC queries.
If you are dealing with payroll errors, commission queries or the growing admin burden of running payroll, we can support you.
Staff Payroll FAQs
Recruitment payroll is uniquely complex due to fluctuating pay structures. Unlike businesses with fixed salaries, agencies must manage temporary worker payroll as well as their in-house team payroll, this means juggling holiday accruals, tiered commission schemes, split-fee arrangements, and high volumes of starters and leavers. Our service is specifically built to handle these specific variables accurately every single week.
We work with your existing commission structure, ensuring it is applied accurately and consistently through payroll. We can also review your scheme, stress test how it operates in practice and make recommendations where needed. Having worked with thousands of commission structures, we understand what works well and where issues can arise. Our team also handles the day-to-day calculation of even the most complex schemes, ensuring commission is processed accurately and transparently each pay period.
Yes. We provide a comprehensive service that covers permanent consultants as well as your temporary and contract workforce. We ensure statutory payments (SSP, SMP, SPP), holiday pay, pension and National Insurance contributions (NICs) are calculated correctly for every worker type, keeping you fully compliant with HMRC.
Absolutely. As a BACS-approved bureau, we can manage the payroll payment process on your behalf. Once you provide the pay data, we process the payroll and submit BACS payment files, ensuring your employees and HMRC are paid accurately and on time. This means your payroll runs with minimal administrative input from your side. All you need is a SUN number from your bank.
Payroll legislation—from Pensions Auto Enrolment to RTI submissions and Benefit-in-Kind rules—is constantly evolving. Our specialists stay ahead of these changes so you don’t have to. We maintain audit-ready records and handle all year-end processing (including P60 production) and HMRC queries on your behalf.
Transparency is the best cure for disputes. We provide clear breakdowns of all commission and bonus calculations. Because we use your specific scheme’s logic to generate these figures, your consultants have full visibility into how their pay was reached, which significantly minimises “payday friction” and saves management time.
Do we sound like your kind of accountants?
Call us, or send us an email to arrange your free Business Review.
There’s no obligation, just a great opportunity for you to find out how we can add value to your business and help you achieve your goals.
