# Justworks

> Pay, benefits and HR platform for employers, with an app for staff

Justworks is a platform for running a company's pay, benefits and HR, with support from people and access to corporate-level benefits. Its mobile app shows employees their pay stubs, earnings and insurance details, and lets them request time off, submit expenses and clock in and out. A shared iPad can serve as the team's time clock.

- **Category:** Payroll
- **Made by:** Justworks, Inc.
- **Website:** https://www.justworks.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Justworks is a paid product, starting at $50 per month, plus $8 per employee (Payroll).

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Payroll | $50 per month, plus $8 per employee | Payroll for US employees with HR tools, expert support and access to time tracking. US-based contractors are $8 a month each. |
| PEO Basic | $79 per employee / month | Justworks becomes the co-employer: payroll, compliance, HR consulting, 24/7 support and 401(k). No base fee. |
| PEO Plus | $124 per employee / month | Everything in PEO Basic plus medical, dental and vision administration, HSA and FSA accounts. Marked popular. No base fee. |
| EOR | $599 per employee / month | Employer of record for hiring full-time staff abroad, with global HR and compliance support. No base fee. |

Read from https://www.justworks.com/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Justworks before buying.

## Key features

- **Pay stubs and earnings:** Employees review payments, share pay stubs and see year-to-date earnings in the app.
- **Benefits at hand:** Insurance details are available and shareable from the app, so staff do not need to carry a card.
- **Time off requests:** Employees request time off in the app, and managers review and approve requests there.
- **Expense reimbursements:** Staff upload receipts when they spend and submit reimbursement requests under the company's rules.
- **Time tracking and Terminal Mode:** Clock in and out, manage breaks and shifts and submit timecards; Terminal Mode turns a shared iPad into a PIN-based time clock.
- **Company calendar and directory:** A shared calendar of pay dates, holidays, time off and birthdays, and a directory of colleagues grouped by department.

## Good for

- Smaller employers that want benefits normally offered by large ones
- Teams that clock in on a shared iPad
- Employers whose staff submit expenses and time off from a phone

## Worth knowing

- Payroll and the PEO plans are for US teams. Staff abroad go on the $599 employer-of-record plan, or are paid as contractors in 60+ countries at $39 each a month.
- Health insurance through the PEO plans needs the co-employer arrangement; on the Payroll plan it is an $8-a-month add-on per benefits-eligible employee.
- Time tracking is $8 a month per employee on every plan, and dedicated HR consulting is $30 per employee.
- The employee app needs an account set up through an employer that uses Justworks.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Justworks is payroll with people behind it, and its PEO is the draw: small teams get the kind of health plans and 401(k) big employers offer. Plain payroll is $90 a month for five people. Time tracking costs extra on every plan, and there's no trial.

- **Value for money: C.** The Payroll plan is $50 a month plus $8 an employee, $90 for five, above the middle of this category. Time tracking is another $8 a person. Its EOR plan, a different kind of service, is $599 a person, $2,995 for five, the same as Deel and Remote.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on record. You pay from the first month.
- **Features: B.** US payroll with HR tools and expert support, a PEO that brings small teams big-company health plans and 401(k), employer of record abroad, and contractors in 60+ countries. Staff handle pay stubs, time off, expenses and timecards in the app.
- **Ease of use: A.** 4.84 from about 5,200 App Store ratings for the app staff use for pay stubs, time off and expenses. A shared iPad can be the team's time clock, with a PIN for each person.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, and an iPad can run as a time clock. No desktop app, and the listing names no integrations.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Justworks' own pages on 17 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Justworks' pricing page turned our reader away on 17 October 2026, so its prices are as the listing has them. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among payroll services

- Justworks's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 18 other payroll services we grade, and level with 9.
- It stands best on ease of use (A, above 9 of 18) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $50 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 11 of the 13 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/payroll

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Justworks you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $600 a year.

- You could make: Time tracking and expense tracking: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.8 out of 5 from 5,181 ratings in the United States, read Oct 17, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1485245462

**Tags:** Payroll, Time tracking, Expense tracking

## Alternatives

- [Gusto](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gusto): Payroll and HR for small businesses, with apps for owners and staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gusto-vs-justworks)
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- [Deel](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deel): Global payroll, contractor payments and employer of record. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deel-vs-justworks)
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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://www.justworks.com/pricing
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/justworks/id1485245462
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clockwork_mobile&gl=US&hl=en

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/justworks
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