Choosing the right professional employer organization (PEO) in Nevada is important because if you get it right, the organization will support your company and help it grow.
The right PEO will take care of all your HR tasks and paperwork, leaving you less overworked and free to tackle all the overdue tasks in your inbox.
The wrong PEO will be costly. Not only will it be unnecessarily expensive, it’ll frustrate you to no end, leaving you without the financial or mental resources necessary to manage your company and keep it on the right track.
I assessed more than 900 different professional employer organizations in Nevada, thoroughly investigating the top 15, then rating the best 9, and it led me to identify the best PEO in Nevada.
But before I give you my recommendation for the best PEO, you should know something.
The Best PEO Isn't Always the Right PEO
I spent countless hours assessing over 900 professional employer organizations to discover the Nevada PEO that achieved the highest score across a variety of rating factors. But I also learned that just because a PEO has the highest overall score doesn’t mean that it’s automatically the perfect PEO for your company.
- Some PEOs have substantial experience with certain industries and provide unique industry-specific services, benefits, and support to meet their needs.
- Some PEOs have worked hard to develop good relationships with insurance providers and can offer a variety of health insurance and benefits packages for your employees.
- Some PEOs specialize in the compliance industry and provide a variety of services to ensure that your business meets all state and federal compliance regulations.
There’s only one way to make sure you choose the best PEO for your Nevada company. You have to compare the key features of each Nevada PEO against the unique needs of your business. That’s the only way to make sure you’re not just getting the best PEO with the highest overall score, but the perfect PEO for your Nevada business according to metrics that are important to you.
If you’d like a free business analysis to find out about the needs of your business, as well as a free Nevada PEO recommendation, enter your information in the form below. Once you’ve submitted your information, I’ll contact you within 24 hours with your free Nevada PEO recommendation and business analysis.
If you’d rather just learn which PEO scored the highest on my list, here are my recommendations for the best PEO in Nevada.
1. Flexible PEO – 9.6/10 (Best Overall PEO)
Flexible pushes PEO Companies down into second place for one key reason – customer service. They do everything well but customer service is where they truly exceed expectations.
Pros
Flexible PEO provides a complete array of services. Health insurance, benefits packages, benefits administration, payroll processing, compliance assistance, risk mitigation, workers’ compensation, and more are all available.
They provide good value pricing and a user-friendly interface for getting started with their system.
The one area they really excelled in was customer service.
In the three different customer service tests I conducted, the average response time to customer service emails was 46 minutes, and the average wait time to talk with a customer service representative on the phone was less than 2 minutes.
Their assistance was not only prompt but also extremely efficient. They were able to address my problems without transferring me to another agent (and making me repeat my problem again) or involving a manager.
While they haven’t yet sent me a birthday card, it’s the only thing their customer service could have done to enhance their service and my customer satisfaction.
Cons
Flexible's system is simple to use and their cost is reasonable.
There were however times when their system was a little confusing, and I had to call their excellent customer service to figure out how to navigate it. Flexible's costs are excellent for their services, however, the three bids I got for three fake companies were all roughly 10% more than PEO Companies.
Most people wouldn’t consider these deal breakers, but it meant they didn't earn a 10/10 rating.
Overall
Flexible is a fantastic professional employer organization that checks a lot of boxes. They provide a complete range of goods and services at affordable prices, as well as spectacular customer service. Their system isn’t the most user-friendly, and they’re somewhat more costly than PEO Companies, but they’re still my top choice.
As with any professional employer organization, their cost is dependent on your requirements and size, so fill in your information here to receive a detailed quote: Flexible PEO.
2. PEO Companies — 9/10 (Best Range of Options)
PEO Companies is another good choice for a Nevada professional employer organization, but it didn't quite make the top spot on this list.
Pros
Just like the other Nevada professional employer organizations on my list, PEO Companies offers a full range of services. This means that you’ll get health insurance, as well as other insurance options, employee management tools, risk management, benefits packages for your employees, payroll management, workers’ compensation, and compliance assistance to ensure that your Nevada company meets all the guidelines and regulations in your state.
It was somewhat easy to get set up in its system, and I found its customer support team to be competent enough to answer all the questions I had for them and respond in a decent amount of time.
The main advantage of PEO Companies is its price. I got three separate quotes for my three fictitious businesses, and all three quotes were in the top three best quotes I got from PEO companies in Nevada, with the quote for my small business coming in first place. I also included every other option that other Nevada PEO companies provided, which really highlighted the value of PEO Companies' great prices.
Cons
Of course, PEO Companies prices make it an excellent value, but there are a few drawbacks to its Nevada professional employer organization services.
It was easy to get up with its system, but once I tried to navigate around in it to complete some fairly routine tasks, I ran into difficulty.
I called the customer service team to assist me with these issues, and while they were able to guide me through my problems and respond in a reasonable amount of time, the customer service paled in comparison to Flexible’s stellar customer service.
So PEO Companies' services are good, but there’s nothing it’s great at.
Overall
PEO Companies is a trusty Nevada PEO with dependable customer service and outstanding prices. Its system is a bit confusing and it will surely make anyone without strong technological skills want to rip their hair out at times, and its customer service team isn’t the best when compared to other Nevada PEO companies. But despite these drawbacks, PEO Companies still provides the best rates of any Nevada professional employer organization.
PEO Companies' pricing depends on factors like the size of your Nevada business, your business industry, and the types of benefits you want to offer your employees. To request a quote, click here: PEO Companies.
3. CoAdvantage PEO — 7.90/10 (Best Value PEO )
Sure, CoAdvantage is in third place on my list, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a good Nevada professional employer organization. In fact, it only missed out on first place by a small percentage, and it does surpass Vensure in one area.
Pros
CoAdvantage PEO offers a full range of basic PEO services, much like Vensure. This means that it’ll provide health insurance, dental insurance, employee management resources, payroll management, risk management, benefits packages for your employees, workers’ compensation, and compliance assistance to ensure you meet state and federal regulations.
It’s fairly easy to get set up in its system, and it offers competitive prices.
But it really stood out in one area: customer service.
I ran three different customer service tests, and I found that its average response time for emails was 46 minutes. On customer service calls, the average wait time to speak to a customer service agent was only 2 minutes.
CoAdvantage’s customer service wasn’t just fast, it was also quite helpful. Each time I called the customer service team they were able to answer my questions or solve my problem without me having to call back, transferring me to other agents (requiring me to repeatedly explain my issue to multiple people), or involving a manager.
CoAdvantage didn’t add any personal touches, like sending me a birthday card, but that’s the only thing I feel it could have done to improve my customer service experience.
Cons
The reason that CoAdvantage isn’t in my #1 spot is because while it has an easy-to-use system and competitive prices, it was surpassed by Vensure in both areas.
It was reasonably easy to get set up in CoAdvantage’s system, but once I was set up in it I found I had some navigational issues, and I had to call the excellent customer service team to get help with them. And though it has decent prices, all three of the quotes I got from them were about 10% more than Vensure’s quotes.
Of course these aren’t usually complete deal breakers for many Nevada business owners—especially for business owners who put a lot of importance on good customer service—but they were enough to move it down the list.
Overall
CoAdvantage is a great Nevada PEO because it will check all the boxes and meet all of your HR needs. It provides a full suite of PEO services, offers reasonable rates, and backs it up with industry-leading customer support. It’s a little more expensive than Vensure, and its system isn’t the easiest PEO system I’ve encountered, but if you place a lot of value on your PEO’s customer service quality, then these drawbacks don’t matter much.
CoAdvantage’s prices are based on a number of factors, like your business industry, the size of your Nevada business, how many employees you have, and the types of benefits you want to offer your employees. If you’d like to request a quote from CoAdvantage, click here: CoAdvantage.
4. Justworks
Justworks is new to the Nevada PEO industry. It was founded as recently as 2012, but it’s grown and is currently expanding to serve small businesses across the United States, not just the state of Nevada.
Like the other Nevada PEO companies on my list, Justworks offers a full range of professional employer organization services, such as health insurance and benefits packages for your employees, workers’ compensation, HR solutions and paperwork, compliance assistance to ensure your company meets state and federal regulations and guidelines, payroll, and other services to help you manage your employees and keep insurance costs down.
The main advantage of Justworks is its transparency. It lists its pricing structure publicly on its website for anyone to access. The entire Nevada PEO industry seems to hide price structures and force clients to participate in sales calls to find out about prices, which is sneaky. So in an industry where prices are kept from customers as much as possible, transparency is a major plus.
The reason Justworks came in at #4 is because of its youth. The age of a company is a major factor in the Nevada professional employer organization industry.
It takes a long time and a lot of work to complete the setup process with a professional employer organization in Nevada, and most businesses can’t afford to go through the process repeatedly simply because they chose a start-up PEO and it ceased operations suddenly. That’s why it’s best to choose a PEO that has a decades-long history of serving businesses in Nevada.
I recommend that you give Justworks a few years to establish itself in the professional employer organization industry in Nevada before you trust it with your business.
If you’d like to know more about its services or request a quote, click here: Justworks.
5. Infiniti HR
Infiniti HR is an interesting Nevada PEO option because it has successfully found a way to make its services stand out from other Nevada professional employer organizations.
It offers the basic PEO options that the other Nevada professional employer organization companies on my list provide, like various types of insurance and benefits packages for your employees, payroll services, workers’ compensation, and other services to meet your HR needs and reduce healthcare costs for your company.
But the most unique service that Infiniti HR offers is employee recruitment. If your experience as a Nevada business owner is anything like everyone else’s, then you’ll know that one employee can positively impact the entire company, and the value of a good employee is immeasurable. That’s why Infiniti HR’s employee recruitment services are so attractive to Nevada business owners.
Infiniti HR’s drawback is the same as Justworks’: its age. Infiniti lacks decades of experience or a long history in the Nevada professional employer organization industry. And because of that I recommend giving it some time to establish itself and develop a history of serving businesses in the state of Nevada before you partner up with them.
Click here to request a quote: Infiniti HR.
6. TriNet
TriNet is the oldest professional employer organization in the nationwide PEO industry, not just in the state of Nevada. It was established in 1988, and since then it has created more than 16,000 companies and has over 330,000 employees under its corporate umbrella.
As with all the Nevada professional employer organizations on my list of best PEO services, TriNet offers every service you need, such as various types of insurance and employee benefits, workers’ compensation, payroll, and other resources to help you manage your employees.
But the major drawback of TriNet is that it uses its reputation and big name to draw in clients, rather than actually supplying superior PEO services and products to draw clients in.
TriNet’s customer support isn’t anything to write home about. It never seems to innovate and create new services or improve existing services to solve known problems, and it definitely won’t try to impress potential clients or gain their business. This is because TriNet knows that it’s going to gain new clients one way or another because of its reputation, so whether or not it gains your business is inconsequential to its overall bottom line.
Because of this, TriNet is a trustworthy and decent PEO choice, but it’ll never impress or exceed the expectations of any Nevada business owner with its services.
Click here to learn more about TriNet and request a quote: TriNet.
7. PayChex
PayChex is another professional employer organization that has been in the industry for a long time. Originally, the PEO company had been called Oasis Outsourcing, but PayChex recently acquired it, and now new customers sign up with PayChex, while existing customers are allowed to maintain their Oasis accounts.
PayChex offers all the standard professional employer organization service options that Nevada business owners expect, like insurance and employee benefits, payroll processing, workers’ compensation, and other tools and resources to help manage employees and reduce health care costs for your company. It also offers industry-specific PEO services that target education, retail, hospitality, banking, and other industries.
The reason PayChex got such a low score is due to its policy of only supplying clients with 12-month contracts.
Nearly all PEO companies in Nevada give their clients month-to-month contracts, so the fact that Paychex only allows 12-month contracts for potential customers is both unorthodox and excessive, so it lost points for that.
Click here to request a quote for your business: PayChex.
8. ADP Totalsource
ADP is a huge name in the PEO world. Not only does it serve business owners in the state of Nevada, but it has grown to serve more than 140 different countries the world over.
It provides all the standard PEO services that Nevada state business owners have come to expect from professional employer organizations, such as insurance and employee benefits packages, payroll processing, workers’ compensation, and other services to aid in managing your workers and minimize insurance costs. On top of the basic PEO services it offers, it also provides industry-specific PEO services.
ADP has one feature that sets it apart from other Nevada PEO companies. Its customer service isn’t limited to you, the business owner. If any of your workers have questions about payroll, benefits, insurance, or any HR-related inquiry, they can call ADP’s customer service and get answers to their questions. This is a huge bonus to Nevada state businesses because it removes one more task from the business owner’s already congested to-do list so they can focus on other important tasks to ensure the company thrives.
The drawback of ADP’s service is the same as TriNet’s. With these big PEO companies, your Nevada state company will get lost in a sea of large companies that make up your PEO’s extensive client list. This means that your Nevada state company will never receive the level of attention and support from its PEO company that it needs to really grow.
If you’d like to learn more about ADP and request a quote, click here: ADP Totalsource.
9. Insperity
I had high hopes for Insperity, but this Nevada state PEO company ultimately disappointed me.
Like all the other PEO companies on my list, Insperity offers a slew of basic PEO services, such as insurance and employee benefits packages, payroll administration, workers’ compensation, compliance notifications to keep your company compliant with state and federal regulations, and other resources to aid in managing your workers and keep company insurance costs low.
I was initially intrigued when I found out that Insperity had a 30-year history of winning awards for its Nevada PEO services, as well as for its customer support. Then I found out that it allows customers to cancel their service at any time (as long as you give them 30 days’ notice), and I was pretty sure I’d found a Nevada state PEO company that was committed to delivering a superior product to its customers.
But as I continued my research, I found one area that changed my mind about Insperity: health care.
Every business owner in the state of Nevada is aware that health insurance is highly important. Your workers have health needs that are as unique as they are. This means that you need lots of insurance and employee benefits package options to ensure your workers receive the coverage they need.
But Insperity only provides insurance and employee benefits packages from one provider. Why? I don’t have answers for you about that because I couldn’t find any reasonable answer in any of my research. It’s just what it does.
This means that if you choose Insperity as your Nevada state PEO company, it’s very likely your workers won’t receive the insurance coverage they need.
If you’d like to request a quote for your business from Insperity, click here: Insperity.
The Best PEO for Your Business
There are over 900 different PEO companies available to Nevada state business owners, which can make choosing the best PEO for your company quite difficult.
I spent more than 230 hours over the past six years analyzing the Nevada state PEO industry, and my research allowed me to identify the top three PEO companies in the state: Vensure, CoAdvantage, and PEO Companies.
While these are the best PEO companies for nearly any Nevada business, to ensure that you find a PEO that’s the best choice for your company, you need a personalized recommendation based on the following factors:
- The number of employees on your payroll
- What you want the PEO to help with (payroll, HR compliance, workers’ compensation insurance, etc.)
- Employee benefits you want to offer to your team (such as health insurance and workers’ compensation insurance)
- How much you can afford to spend on employee benefits
- The location of your small business
- The location where you conduct your business (if outside the office)
- How much customer support you will need
- Your technological capabilities
- How large you plan to scale
- Your industry
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The Best PEO Selection Process
I used a rigorous process to choose the best PEO companies in Nevada. But before I tell you about my process, you should know a bit about me.
Why You Should Trust Me
There’s a reason you can trust any recommendation I make about a Nevada PEO company. Through a combination of using PEO companies for my own businesses and making PEO company recommendations for other Nevada business owners, I’ve earned more experience and knowledge about the PEO industry than nearly anyone else.
I first started learning about the Nevada PEO industry when I started my online health company. I was busy learning all the various things that new online business owners need to learn to succeed, like building websites, writing articles, and managing my workers. I didn’t have the time or energy necessary to focus on all the HR tasks, paperwork, payroll, and employee benefit issues that were taking up so much of my time.
I initially hired a staffing agency to help manage my workers, but that wasn’t enough to help with all of my issues, like payroll and employee benefits concerns, and limiting insurance costs. Eventually, I partnered with an excellent Nevada professional employer organization, and it took care of all of my needs.
I closed this business and decided to take some time off before I started my next business venture: a cafe! It’s quite an understatement to say that running an online health company is quite different from running a cafe.
But even though the two companies were drastically different, I noticed one common problem: HR woes. Armed with my experience from my first business, I began researching Nevada PEO companies to find the best choice for my business. I studied websites, extensively read online reviews, and sat impatiently through long-winded pitches from sales teams, when all I wanted was to ask a simple question. It was a ton of work and a lot of information to process. But all this information eventually led me to choose the best PEO to support my Nevada company and help it grow.
I found out rather quickly that I don’t have the right personality for the hospitality industry, so I closed my cafe. Again, I took some time off to consider my next career move. It just so happened that the answer came to me in an unexpected way. My friends and acquaintances from both my online health company and my cafe approached me to ask for advice about how to handle their back-end operations (like payroll processing, insurance, benefit packages, etc.).
I made lots of recommendations to Nevada business owners, which led more and more people to come to me for recommendations. At some point, I began to write my PEO recommendations down. Since I started, I’ve now helped more than 1,200 people find the right PEO to support their companies. That’s why I’m confident I can help your Nevada business, too. Through this process I’ve gained more knowledge and experience in the Nevada PEO industry than nearly anyone else on the planet.
How I Selected the Best PEO
I used a four-stage investigation process, which helped narrow down a list of over 900 different Nevada PEO companies to a short list of potential competitors.
Stage 1: Reviews
I read through online reviews as the first stage of my investigation.
Nearly any PEO company that’s been in business for over a year should have accumulated a great deal of online reviews and feedback from customers. I use this feedback to find out which PEOs were worth my time to continue investigating them, and which I could eliminate at this early stage.
I studied online reviews to find out whether a PEO’s services, prices, and customer service met the basic industry requirements, and if they didn’t I quickly eliminated it.
Stage 2: Offering Analysis
The PEO industry isn’t all the same. There are a number of companies that supply different products and services, and they do so at different price points.
That’s why the second stage of my investigation was comparing different services and price points so that I could determine whether a PEO’s services were substandard, or if it charged exorbitant fees for basic services.
Stage 3: Speaking With Real Customers
You can get a good general understanding of a PEO’s services from online reviews. But online reviews have a couple of big drawbacks.
The first drawback is that customers are limited on space. Most online review sites limit reviews to 200 characters or less. This simply isn’t enough space to allow customers to describe the quality of a PEO’s services.
The second is that customers typically won’t even leave an online review unless they’ve either had a really good or a truly horrible experience with the company. This means that you shouldn’t base your opinion about a PEO company solely on online customer reviews because half of them will be glowing, while the other half will be scathing.
To get around these drawbacks, I chose to speak directly to customers. I did this by reaching out to my friends and acquaintances I knew who had used PEOs, customers to whom I’d made recommendations, and visitors to my website. I asked these customers detailed questions about the quality of each PEO’s services, and they gave me thorough responses.
Speaking directly to customers this way gave me a clear picture about what it’s like to work with each organization on my list.
Stage 4: Speaking With Their Sales Teams
The last stage was an important one.
I took all the problems, negative feedback and bad reviews I’d discovered during the other stages of my investigation and called up each PEO’s sales or customer service teams to ask them about it. The information I gathered during this stage allowed me to learn what it’s like to work with a business long term. Does it make frequent changes in an attempt to grow and innovate, or is it stubbornly stuck in its ways? Does it quickly accept ownership of its failures, or does it attempt to point the finger at its customers instead? The answers to these questions separated the best PEO companies from the rest.
Ranking Factors
I used five factors to rate each PEO and identify the best PEO.
Factor 1: Offerings
Each PEO’s product offerings were the first factor I considered.
There’s no reason to partner with a PEO company expecting specific benefit packages or services (like payroll administration) if it doesn't offer the products and services you need. So, to make sure you choose a PEO that covers all your needs, I rated each PEO according to the services it provides.
Factor 2: Price
Another important factor I considered was price.
Not only do the services offered by different PEOs vary greatly, so does price. To make matters worse, they all hide their pricing information behind sales calls, which is a sneaky and inconvenient sales tactic. So to make sure you’re not paying too much for mediocre services, the second factor I evaluated the PEOs on was their prices.
Factor 3: Ease of Sign-Up
The third factor I used to assess a PEO’s value was how easy its sign-up process is.
Some PEOs require you to go searching everywhere for weeks for trivial pieces of information, while others get the majority of the information they need about your business from government websites, which cuts back on the work you have to do.
To ensure that you don’t end up with a PEO that wastes time during the sign-up process, I evaluated the ease of each PEO’s sign-up process.
Factor 4: Ease of Use
The fourth factor I rated was how easy each PEO’s system is to use.
It was apparent to me during my research that some PEOs have spent millions of dollars and put a lot of work into their systems to make sure that customers are provided with a user-friendly experience. Then there are other companies that just add on new features to an already outdated system whose servers are on their last legs, and then just write a huge user manual to try to explain their navigation system, which is becoming more complicated with each new feature.
Obviously, it’s preferable to choose a PEO with a user-friendly, easy-to-navigate system, rather than an outdated and confusing system, so I chose to rate each PEO according to how easy its system is to use.
Factor 5: Customer Service
No matter how streamlined a PEO’s sign-up process is or how user friendly its system is, you’ll eventually run into a problem or have questions about its service. It’s during these instances that good customer service is crucial.
Some PEOs keep you on hold for hours until you’re eventually connected to an underpaid, untrained, uninterested agent who can’t answer your questions or solve your problem but promises to escalate it to management (which they never do). Then there are other PEOs who will answer your call with lightning speed and solve your problem without having to transfer you to other agents or involve management, which means that you have more time to get your work done and go about your day.
The Best PEO for Your Business
Vensure is the best choice for most businesses in most instances, but I can’t accurately make a PEO recommendation for your business without learning more about your business and the particular circumstances you face.
Some of the information I need to make a recommendation for your business includes your business industry, the size of your company, how many employees you have, the types of benefit packages you want to offer your employees, and more.
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Meanwhile, since you’re here learning about PEOs, it’s a good time to learn about other business services that can benefit your company, like registered agents. A registered agent is a person or business that accepts mail, legal documents, and service of process on behalf of your business. For more information about registered agents, read my Best Nevada Registered Agents article.
It’s a good time to choose your business structure, as well. There are several business options to choose from, including a sole proprietorship, corporation, or limited liability company (LLC). If you’d like to know more about LLC formation, click here to read my article about how to start a Nevada LLC.
If you’re interested in forming an LLC, but want to find an easier way to get through the formation process, then you should consider an LLC formation service. To learn more about LLC formation services, read my Best LLC Services in Nevada article.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to use a PEO?
The price of a PEO can vary widely depending on a number of different factors. This can include the PEO you choose, the services you use, the employee benefits you offer, and the number of employees you have. But on average, $1,000–$2,000 per employee per month is a good base number to start with.
How does a PEO charge?
There are two different fee structures used by PEO service providers: flat fee or percentage of payroll.
A flat fee structure charges you a set amount per employee. This is a good option for any business that requires a high level of certainty around their monthly billing.
A percentage of payroll structure is where the PEO charges you a percentage of the wages you pay your employees per month. This is a good option for employers in low-wage industries.
How long does it take to get set up with a PEO?
The setup process for any small business with PEO service providers takes time. They need lots of paperwork from your end and then need to file plenty more with government authorities to get you up and running.
This process can take anywhere between three and six weeks but on average, it usually takes four weeks.
Does it cost to change PEOs?
There are no specific exit fees associated with any of the PEOs we’ve recommended in this article, but due to the extensive setup process, every PEO charges a setup fee. This means that if you decide to leave your PEO for a new PEO, you won’t be charged anything to leave but you will have to pay the setup fee with the new PEO.