Compare PEOs on Data, Not Marketing Copy
Independent, sourced comparison of US professional employer organizations — pricing structure, certification, state registration and contract terms, with every field linked to its primary source.
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Start where the decision actually gets made
Nobody chooses a PEO by reading a definition. They choose by working out whether a PEO beats what they do today, what it will really cost once the administrative fee is separated from the insurance, and which providers can legally operate where their people are.
- What a PEO costs — how the fee is structured, what gets bundled
into it, and the questions that force an unbundled quote out of a sales team.
- Estimate your own numbers — arithmetic on the rate
you were quoted, with an explicit list of what it cannot tell you.
- Is it a PEO you need? — four questions that separate
a PEO from an EOR, an ASO, or just a better payroll service.
- PEO laws by state — registration, bonding and payroll-tax
rules, published free, with sources.
What we publish, and what we refuse to publish
Every factual field on this site carries a link to the record it came from and the date we checked it. Where we have not verified something, the page says "Not verified" instead of showing a confident guess.
That sounds like a small thing. It is the entire difference between this site and the listicles currently ranking above it, most of which cannot tell you where a single number came from.
We also gate our own scale. Provider, comparison and state pages are generated from a structured dataset, and a generated page stays out of search indexes until it has real sourced data, a differentiating element, and a named human sign-off. You can still read the drafts — they say what is missing.
Independence, stated plainly
Peolet is not a PEO. We do not co-employ anyone, run payroll, or place insurance. We are paid a flat, rate-carded fee by providers when we introduce a qualified buyer who agreed to be contacted — the same fee for every provider, no bidding, no commission on what you eventually buy.Providers cannot pay for a ranking, a score, or a place on a list. The full commercial model is here, and the scoring rubric is here.
Understand the arrangement before you price it
- What a PEO is, and who it is genuinely wrong for
- Co-employment, explained without the diagram nobody reads
- PEO vs EOR · PEO vs ASO ·
When you are ready to talk to providers
Six questions, and you choose which providers may contact you before anything is sent. We shortlist on whether a provider can actually serve your headcount and your states — sending you to one that cannot costs us money, which is the only kind of alignment worth relying on.