Payroll

After a significant setback in September hiring at small businesses, the jobs situation appeared to be stabilizing in October, according to payroll figures from CBIZ.

Payroll giant ADP reported that hiring in the financial activities sector increased by 9,000 in October.

Payroll giant ADP is partnering with Moody’s Analytics and Moody’s influential chief economist Mark Zandi on producing its monthly ADP National Employment Report.

Paychex Inc. has launched the Paychex Report Center, a new resource designed to allow businesses, their accounting professionals, and employees to better manage payroll, benefits, and human resources data.

ADP has made several enhancements to its electronic invoice solution, which include advanced coding capabilities and improved document routing and management designed to help streamline the accounts payable process for medium to large-size businesses.

CBIZ found a decline in small business employment in September among its payroll clients, following an increase in August.

The service sector was largely responsible for an increase of 144,000 of the 162,000 jobs added in September, beating analyst expectations, according to the latest monthly national employment report from payroll giant ADP.

Payroll service provider SurePayroll found that month-over-month hiring declined 0.2 percent in September, according to its SurePayroll Scorecard, while year-over-year hiring fell 1.5 percent.

CBIZ reported a rebound in small business employment in August among its payroll clients following a decrease in July.

The unemployment rate dipped two-tenths of a percentage point to 8.1 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, even though employers only added a disappointing 96,000 jobs to the nonfarm payroll employment numbers.

Employment in the private sector increased by 201,000 from July to August, according to payroll giant ADP’s National Employment Report, beating analyst expectations.

Intuit reported Wednesday that small businesses with fewer than 20 employees created 30,000 new jobs in August, but overall saw revenue declines.

Payroll service provider SurePayroll reported Friday that optimism among small business owners declined slightly in August, with 60 percent of the small business owners it surveyed feeling optimistic about the economy, compared to 62 percent last month, with both hiring and average paycheck size declining as well.

Thomson Reuters announced that it will be holding two Payroll Summits to show accounting firms how offering payroll processing to their clients can add to their profits.

Employment in the private sector increased by 163,000 in July, with gains in businesses of all sizes, according to payroll giant ADP.

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Intuit reported Tuesday that small businesses added 35,000 new jobs in July, but revenue and the number of hours worked declined.

The average paycheck size at small businesses declined 0.2 percent in July, according to payroll provider SurePayroll.

Cloud-based accounting provider Xero has released a general ledger integration with the Run Powered by ADP cloud-based payroll platform for small-business owners.

Intuit has made available Snap Payroll, a free mobile app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that handles paycheck calculations for small businesses.