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Of your ______ (number) employees, about how many are full-time?
How frequently do you pay your full-time employees?
Do you pay your part-time employees with the same frequency that you pay your full-time employees?
How frequently do you pay your part-timers?
Do you do the payroll in-house, have an outside accountant or bookkeeper do it for you, or do you hire a payroll service company for that purpose?
In your business, who does the payroll?
About how many hours per pay period does it take to make out the payroll, including reviewing time cards or similar data, calculating pay and withholding taxes, preparing the checks, and other associated tasks?
Do you use some type of electronic spreadsheet listing the employees by name, etc., their gross pay, tax deductions, other deductions if applicable, and net pay?
Is your payroll system electronically tied into a larger accounting system?
Do you print the checks instead of making them out manually?
Why do you continue to do your payroll in-house? Is the most important reason because:?
Approximately, how much does the outside accountant or bookkeeper charge you every time he or she does your payroll?
Do you pay him or her a flat fee or an hourly fee to do it?
Do you send your payroll records to the accountant or bookkeeper in electronic or paper form?
Does the accountant or bookkeeper manage the financial transactions for you, such as tax deposits, or do you conduct that part of the process in-house?
Approximately, how much does your payroll services company charge you per month for the service when the company does your payroll?
Do you send your payroll records to the payroll services company in electronic or paper form?
What is the most important reason that you choose to engage a payroll company rather than doing your payroll in-house? Was it because it is:?
How often do you remit payroll taxes to the federal government?
Do you use an Internet banking arrangement that allows you to remit your payroll taxes electronically?
Do you have direct deposit for employee payroll checks, that is, do you give your employees the option of having their paychecks automatically deposited directly into their bank account?
About how many of your employees use direct deposit?
Do you allow employees to make direct deposits to more than one account?
What is the maximum number of accounts that an employee can have his or her money deposited into, or has that issue never arisen?
Can two or more deposits for a single employee be sent to two or more financial institutions?
What is the most important reason that you instituted direct deposit?
Has direct deposit been helpful, a hassle, or inconsequential to your business?
What is the most important reason that you do not have direct deposit? Is it:?
Considering the frequency of employee changes and any administrative issues for you, are W-4 changes one of the most difficult or one of the least difficult government paperwork burdens you have? Is that strongly or not so strongly?
Do you have any employees who claim eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit and submit form W-5 to you?
Do you offer your employees a retirement plan?
Is it a 401(k), a SIMPLE plan, profit-sharing, a SEP plan or something else?
Volume 6, Issue 1, 2006 ISSN - 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr. NFIB Research Foundation