Payroll that runs without your attention

“I’m drowning in payroll and back-office admin.” We hear it often, and it is rarely about the paychecks themselves. It is the filing calendar living in your head, the rule changes you read about too late, and the evening you lose every quarter. We take that off your plate. Across our clients we have processed more than $40 million in payroll.

What “handled” means

Payroll is set up, automated, and watched by us. It runs on schedule without your personal attention, and the filings go out on time. You stay informed without being involved. For a longer look at what this means in practice for Glendale and La Crescenta employers, read what “handled” actually means.

What’s included

• Payroll on schedule. Pay runs go out when they are supposed to, without you having to remember them.
• Filings on a calendar. Federal Forms 941 (quarterly) and 940 (annual), and California Forms DE 9 and DE 9C, are prepared and filed on the dates they are due, not from memory.
• Year-end forms. W-2s for employees and 1099s for contractors. New for 2026, overtime must now be reported on W-2s in box 12, code TT; see what changed.
• New hires set up. When you bring someone on, tell us and they are added correctly from the first paycheck.
• California changes tracked. Minimum wage and SDI changes are watched so your payroll reflects them when they take effect. We write about them in The Ledger: California payroll in 2026 and the July 2026 minimum wage.

Why it belongs with the books

Payroll is only as reliable as the records behind it. When one office keeps your books, runs payroll, and prepares the return, wages, withholdings, and filings agree with each other, and you have one place to look instead of five systems that do not talk. See how that works in our bookkeeping service and our tax service.

Getting started is simple. In the first conversation we ask how payroll runs today, who is on it, and what keeps going wrong. Then we take over the cycle and you stay informed, not involved.

Restaurants and grocery stores

Some industries make payroll harder than it looks. For restaurants, that means tip and wage reporting done the way the IRS expects. Our write-up, tip reporting without the headache, shows what that involves. For grocery stores and markets, it means department payroll, so labor lands in the department it belongs to and the margins you look at are real ones.

Common questions

Will I still have to run payroll myself?

No. Payroll runs on schedule without your personal attention. We set it up, automate it, and watch it.

Who keeps track of the filing deadlines?

We do. Filings are handled on a calendar, not from memory, and that includes the federal and California returns listed above. You can see the year’s dates yourself in our free California tax deadline calendar.

What happens when California changes a rule?

We track minimum wage and SDI changes so that you do not have to. When a change affects La Crescenta or Glendale employers, we cover it in The Ledger and your payroll follows it.