Managed Payroll Services
With our payroll outsourcing model, you can focus on your business
Partner with Ceridian to free up time and resources
Ceridian’s Managed Services model uniquely combines decades of experience, seasoned payroll expertise, and award-winning technology to deliver industry-leading payroll administration. We augment your HR and Finance teams so you can focus more on strategic initiatives and less on navigating payroll processing.
Managed payroll services that fit your business
Our tiers offer choice and flexibility for every stage of your growth journey.
Standard
Lean on Ceridian’s payroll professionals to help augment your HR and payroll teams and manage key payroll processes on your behalf.
Select
Help free your teams from day-to-day payroll with comprehensive services and add-ons to set your HR teams and talent strategies up for success.
Signature
Let Ceridian become an extension of your team. Outsource payroll to an industry leader so you can focus on strategic initiatives.
Payroll outsourcing experts dedicated to you

Refocus on your core business
Offload payroll processing to Ceridian for support so that your HR teams can get back to championing your most important resource – your people.
Experts in managed payroll services
Ceridian’s tenured staff complement your teams with their skills and experience in compliance, payroll, and tax filing.
Experience leads to best practices
For over two decades, Ceridian has honed its payroll outsourcing methodology and led with payroll technology innovations.
Risk mitigation

Compliance leadership
Ceridian scored highest in two Use Cases in the 2021 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises.

Dedicated resources
Our compliance experts monitor changing laws for potential impacts to our payroll solutions, helping us respond proactively.

Innovative technology
Applicable configuration options can be built into the Dayforce rules engine to address multi-jurisidictional pay and tax updates.
Elevate your payroll experience
Increased accuracy and efficiency
89% of companies track payroll error rate as a KPI1
- Continuous calculation of payroll helps provide data accuracy and less rework
- Dayforce bridges the gap between pay and time, helping to reduce the risk of integration failure points
- Integrated payment services facilitate secure money movement

Scalability
Our Managed Services model is designed to scale as you do.
- Partner providers undergo Ceridian-driven due diligence
- Feet-on-the-ground expertise backed by global scale
- Support pods in all time zones for operations anytime, anywhere
- Unified data transmissions in Dayforce for simplified reporting

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