Joesph,

I have looked into the in house payroll programs and, for those who are not mathematically challenged or afriad of screwing up state and federal taxes, they are probably very user-friendly. But, as I am one of those as formerly described, I have chosen to stick with a payroll service...Paychex. I have a computer-based Time Clock "It's About Time"; but there are several others out there some of which are free and which I may look at to replace my current one. This keeps up with each employee's hours. At the end of the pay period, we call the worked hours into Paychex. They then calculate all the taxes and also keep up with each employees' PTO (based on the rate we assign and what the employee uses that pay period). They mail me the checks with a month and year-to-date pay/PTO stub and I sign them. They also keep up with all the quarterly taxes and provide the end-of-year W2s, nicely printed out and ready for distribution. I pay about $70/month for the service. I have trimmed a lot of my overhead elsewhere by doing things in house but have continued with Paychex.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "