The 9 Best Kansas PEO Companies Reviewed and Compared (2024)

The professional employer organization (PEO) you choose to serve your business can be the difference between a company that supports your company and helps it grow, or one that causes you unnecessary stress and extra work.

The right PEO will handle all your HR tasks, which will free you up to focus on pressing, overdue business tasks.

The wrong PEO will cost you more in the long run. Not only will it cost you more money than it’s worth, it’ll drain your mental energy, leaving you without the mental resources necessary to make sure you steer your company on the right track. 

I assessed more than 900 different PEO services, conducted a thorough investigation of the top 15, then rated the top 9, which led me to identify the best PEO service in Kansas. 

But before I provide you with recommendations, there’s something you should know.

The Best PEO Isn't Always the Right PEO

I’ve spent countless hours analyzing the 900+ PEO companies available in Kansas to find the PEO service with the highest score across several metrics.But the fact that it has the highest score doesn’t mean that it’s the right PEO service for you and your Kansas business. 

• Some PEO companies have more experience with specific industries, so they can offer unique services and benefits geared towards helping business owners in those sectors. 
• Some PEO companies have developed good relationships with health insurance providers, which allows them to offer you more benefits packages at better rates.
• Some PEO companies specialize in compliance and can offer you various products and services intended to make sure you meet state and federal guidelines. 

There’s only one way to make sure you get the right PEO service for your business. You have to identify your business needs, then compare them to the key features of each Kansas PEO service. Doing this ensures that you’re not just getting the best overall PEO service, but the best PEO service for your company according to criteria that matters most to you.

If you’d like a free business analysis to learn more about your needs and circumstances, as well as a customized PEO recommendation for your Kansas business, fill out the form below and submit your information. Within 24 hours, I’ll contact you with your free business analysis and PEO recommendation.

If you just want to learn about which Kansas PEO companies scored the highest, keep reading for my recommendations for the best PEO services in Kansas.

1. Flexible PEO — 9.7/10 (Best Overall PEO)

Flexible is at the top of my list for a reason. It’s an excellent option for any business looking for a Kansas PEO.

Pros

Much the same as the other PEOs on this list, Flexible PEO offers a slew of PEO solutions, such as health insurance and payroll services, HR support, time tracking, and more.

They provide competitive pricing and intuitive software that makes using a PEO service easy. 

One area where they really excel is customer service. I ran three separate customer service tests and found that they responded to emails on average within 46 minutes, and to phone calls within two minutes. That's seriously good!

Not only did I find their customer service team to give lightning-fast responses, but they’re also quite friendly and helpful. They were able to answer my questions efficiently and also seemed to understand my business. This is a big bonus, showing they're not just about one size fits all which can be a challenge with some of the larger PEOs.

Cons

Flexible PEO has a great system and competitive prices, but their prices aren’t always quite as good as other PEOs on this list.

I also encountered a few instances in which I was confused by their system and had to call their customer support team (which is stellar, but of course, the contacts could have been avoided if the system wasn’t confusing in the first place). 

None of these drawbacks should be considered deal-breakers, and their excellent customer support more than makes up for them. However, they are worth a quick mention.

Overall

Flexible PEO is an excellent PEO service that provides all the basic PEO solutions to meet your business needs. In addition, they also offer competitive prices and a stellar customer service team. They offer great software, but they’re not always as competitively priced as PEO Companies, however, it’s well worth the added expense if you value outstanding customer service. 

All PEO companies price their services based on the size of your company and your specific needs. To get a quote for your company, click here. 

2. PEO Companies — 9.3/10 (Best Range of PEO Services)

If you're looking for a stand-out Kansas PEO, then PEO Companies is worth a look. They provide all their services with high levels of efficiency and quality. You’ll never run into problems with them, and that’s extremely rare when it comes to PEO services. 

Pros

PEO Companies all the PEO services that you would expect from a quality PEO:

• Human resources paperwork
• Employee benefits
• Tax withholding
• Compliance assistance
• Tax administration and payroll taxes
• Payroll administration
• 401k
• Employee contracts
• Dental Insurance
• Risk management
• Health insurance
• Workers’ compensation insurance
• Administrative tasks
• Employee benefits administration
• HR services and HR solutions

They also back all of this up with excellent onboarding support and customer service. If you have any questions, their customer support team will contact you through email within 24 hours. If you require a more prompt response, you can call their customer service line. 

PEO Companies is geared toward small businesses but has the technological might to support big businesses, too. This means that no matter where you are in your business journey, they can support your company and meet your business needs.

Cons

The only negative thing that I can say is that they don’t provide any unique services, and it can sometimes be tricky to get set-up correctly however their customer service is great, so don't let that put you off.

• While they offer all the basic PEO services which is enough for most businesses, they don’t cover any of the luxurious services that some other professional employer organizations offer, like employee wellness programs, employee management services, vision insurance, or safety compliance services. 
• While their customer service team can typically answer any question you may have, they don’t go out of their way to provide you with a unique customer service experience. For instance, they won't send you a yearly birthday card. 

Basically, they offer all the services that you would expect from a Kansas PEO company and their overall offering is strong. They should definitely be on the top of your list to research and get a quote.

3. CoAdvantage PEO — 8.7/10 (Best Value PEO)

While CoAdvantage PEO isn’t at the top of my list, they're still a PEO powerhouse and they’ve been in the industry for years, winning awards for their products and services. They might be at #3 but don't overlook them.

Pros

Much the same as PEO Companies, CoAdvantage offers the basic PEO solutions, such as health insurance and payroll services. They provide competitive pricing and good software.

Ranked as one of the fastest growing PEO companies, CoAdvantage is climbing the rankings as a PEO to watch. CoAdvantage is dedicated to improving its service and expanding while ensuring that current clients are a top priority.

CoAdvantage offers some fantastic performance management and hiring tools that put it ahead of the rest of the pack. If CoAdvantage keeps up with the biggest trends in employer needs while maintaining a good overall offering, we can expect them to make further waves in the local PEO market.

Cons

The reason that CoAdvantage is down in third place is that although it has a decent system and competitive prices, their prices just aren’t as good as the others. Pricing is going to be important for most businesses looking for a PEO so keep that in mind wthen making inquiries.

I also found that although their systems were good, they could occasionally be a little tricky to navigate. It wasn't a huge deal for me but coupled with their adequate rather than good customer service, they come in at #3.

Overall

CoAdvantage is an excellent PEO service that provides all the basic PEO solutions to meet your business needs. In addition, they also offer competitive prices and some solid performance management tools you won't see elsewhere.

They don’t have the most intuitive software, and their customer support can be spotty

4. Justworks

Justworks is new to the Kansas PEO world. It was established in 2012, and since then it’s grown to provide PEO services across the nation. 

Like all the other professional employer organizations on my list, Justworks is a full-service option that offers all the services you need, such as payroll management, compliance assistance, various types of insurance, and tools to manage your HR tasks. But it offers one feature that no other Kansas PEO does: transparency. 

Justworks lists its pricing structure publicly on its website for anyone to access. This transparency is a breath of fresh air because the professional employer organization industry is based on obscuring pricing and forcing potential clients to participate in sales calls to receive quotes. 

The reason that Justworks is in the #4 position is due to its young age and inexperience. The age of a PEO is vitally important in the PEO world.

The setup process to get your company established with a Kansas PEO is so lengthy and labor-intensive that most businesses can’t afford to repeat the process over and over again because they’ve chosen a start-up PEO that suddenly goes out of business. 

I recommend that you give Justworks a few years to establish itself on the Kansas PEO market before you trust it enough to give it your business. 

5. Infiniti HR

Infiniti HR is a Kansas professional employer organization that’s found a way to set itself apart from the other PEO companies on the market. 

Infiniti, of course, offers all the services that the other professional employer organizations on this list do, such as a variety of insurance and benefits package options, payroll management, and other services and tools to meet your HR needs and help you manage your employees.

But it really sets itself apart by also offering employee recruitment assistance. If you’ve ever had the privilege of working with a good employee, then you know that their value affects the entire company. So the fact that this Kansas PEO offers assistance to help you find the right employees is a great bonus. 

The drawback to Infiniti is the same as Justworks’: its young age. It’s only a decade old, which isn’t enough to fully establish itself in the Kansas PEO industry and prove that it’s dependable and going to be around for the long haul. So I recommend waiting a few years to allow Infiniti to establish itself before trusting it with your Kansas business. 

6. TriNet

TriNet is the longest-running PEO in the industry. It officially launched in 1988, and since that time it has grown to include 16,000 companies and 330,000 employees under its corporate umbrella. 

Like the other PEOs on my list, it’s a full-service PEO option that will check all the boxes and meet all your basic HR needs. But it seems to rely on its big name and reputation to draw in prospective customers, rather than providing quality services or unique products to draw in customers. 

TriNet will never blow your mind with its customer service, it doesn’t update its services or innovate to solve existing problems, and it won’t work to impress you or gain your business because it knows it’s okay if it doesn’t win your patronage because there’s a never-ending string of customers in line to sign up for its services.

So even though TriNet is a dependable PEO option, it’s never going to exceed industry standards or blow your mind with its services. 

7. Paychex

Another veteran PEO is Paychex, formerly Oasis Outsourcing. For the past 20 years it’s been providing service to small business owners. Oasis was recently acquired by PayChex, and while it operated under the name Oasis for a while, it’s now going by Paychex. 

Paychex offers all the PEO services you need, as well as a number of industry-specific services. Some of the industries it targets include hospitality, education, retail, banking and more. 

But the reason Paychex is so far down my list is its insistence on forcing new customers to sign 12-month contracts. The PEO industry standard is month-to-month contracts, so it seems really unnecessary and weird to immediately try to lock new clients in for a year. 

8. ADP Totalsource

ADP Totalsource is one of the biggest PEO companies on the market. It provides service to businesses in more than 140 different countries, not just the state of Kansas. ADP offers the full range of basic PEO services, as well as a variety of unique industry-specific solutions. 

One of the best features of ADP Totalsource’s services is that its customer service team is available to your employees, not just you as the business owner. This means that if your employees have questions about their benefits, pay, tax rates, or HR issues, they can call ADP Totalsource’s customer service themselves. This cuts out the middleman (you) and means that your employees will no longer have to come to you with these issues and rely on you to make the calls for them, taking one more menial task off your to-do list. 

The reason ADP is in eighth place is that it has the same drawback as TriNet. If you’re a small business partnered with ADP, then you’ll be lost in a sea of other businesses, many of which are probably much larger than yours. This means that your company will never get the support and attention it needs from its PEO to grow and thrive. 

9. Insperity

Insperity was an organization I had high hopes for, but it was ultimately a letdown. 

It’s won awards for its outstanding products and services for the past 30 years, which certainly caught my attention. Then I found out it allows clients to cancel their service at any time (as long as they provide 30 days notice), and I thought I’d found an organization that prides itself on offering superior services and a great customer experience. 

Then I found one aspect of Insperity’s services that changed my mind: health care. 

Of course, if you’re a business owner in Kansas, you already know that health care is a big deal and requires a lot of options to get right. Your employees all have health care needs as unique as they are. So to make sure they get the best possible health care coverage, you need to be able to choose from several insurance and benefits packages. 

But for some reason, Insperity only offers health care packages from one provider. Why? I honestly have no idea. I was never able to find an answer to this in any of my extensive research. It just does. 

This means that if you choose to partner with Insperity, its limited health care options mean that your employees may not get the health care coverage they need. 

The Best PEO for Your Business

There are over 900 different professional employer organizations available for Kansas business owners to choose from, so it can make choosing the right organization for your company a bit overwhelming. 

I’ve spent more than 230 hours over the past six years conducting a thorough investigation of the Kansas PEO industry to identify the best PEOs in Kansas: Vensure, CoAdvantage, and PEO Companies. 

Though these professional employer organization options are great choices for nearly any Kansas business, to find the best Kansas PEO for you, you need a recommendation for your business 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

If you would like to find the right Kansas PEO for your company, simply enter your details below and I will provide a free assessment of your company needs.

The Best PEO Selection Process

I used an extensive selection process to choose the best professional employer organization in Kansas, but before I tell you about that you should know a bit more about me. 

Why You Should Trust Me

The reason you should trust any recommendation I make for an organization is that I know the PEO industry in Kansas better than nearly anyone else. I got my experience and expertise both through owning my own businesses and recommending the best professional employer organization companies for other Kansas business owners. 

My experience started when I launched my online health business. Dealing with all the things I had to learn as a first-time business owner (such as building websites, writing articles, and managing my employees) was overwhelming. I didn’t have any time to deal with all the HR tasks and paperwork that were piling up and taking up so much of my time every day. 

I initially hired a staffing agency to take some of the work off of my plate, but it wasn’t enough to solve all my HR problems. This eventually resulted in me partnering with a great Kansas professional employer organization. 

After dealing with all the headaches that came from the HR needs of my online health business, I decided to take a break in between closing it and opening my next business—a cafe. To say that an online health business and a cafe in Kansas were drastically different would be a massive understatement. 

But no matter how different the two businesses were, I still encountered one common problem with them: HR woes. This time I was armed with the experience of my prior business, so I set off researching the professional employer organization industry to find the best Kansas PEO. I combed through websites for information, read online reviews, and impatiently sat through lengthy pitches from sales teams when I merely wanted simple answers to basic questions. It was a lot of work and information to process. But all of my hard work paid off and I found a great professional employer organization to partner with. 

It wasn’t long before I determined that I don’t have the right personality for the hospitality industry, so I closed my cafe and took another break to consider my next move. The answer came to me when my friends and acquaintances from my online health business and cafe started asking me for advice about how to get help with their back-end operations. 

I made a lot of recommendations for different professional employer organization companies, which drove more people to me asking for recommendations. I eventually began to write down my recommendations. Since then, I’ve helped more than 1,200 small business owners in Kansas find the right PEOs to provide the kind of support necessary to grow their companies, which has given me more experience in the field than nearly anyone else. 

How I Selected the Best PEO

This is the four-stage investigative process I used to whittle down a list of more than 900 different Kansas professional employer organization companies down to a short list of the best contenders. 

Stage 1: Reviews

I conducted a thorough analysis of online reviews during the first stage of my investigative process. 

Usually, if a Kansas professional employer organization has been in business for a year or more, it’s accumulated a great deal of online feedback from its customers. I used this feedback to find out which companies were worthy of further investigation and which ones I could quickly eliminate. 

Using popular online review websites, I combed through reviews to find out which Kansas professional employer organization companies didn’t live up to industry standards in terms of products and services, customer support, and price, and then used this information to eliminate the weakest links. 

Stage 2: Offering Analysis

Unfortunately, the professional employer organization industry isn’t one-size-fits-all. The types of products and services offered vary widely from PEO to PEO. 

During the second stage of my investigation, I researched both the services offered by each Kansas professional employer organization and the prices it charged for them. This allowed me to remove any Kansas PEO that didn’t offer a full range of basic services or charged overly expensive rates for its services. 

Stage 3: Speaking With Real Customers

Online reviews are a good starting point to learn about a Kansas professional employer organization, but they’re limited in two ways. 

The first limitation is that customers usually only leave reviews if they’ve had either an outstandingly good or a bafflingly bad experience with a company. This means that online reviews are extremely polarized, with half of them singing the company’s praises and the other half violently condemning it. Because of this, it’s difficult to get an accurate idea of what it’s like to work with a company if you base your opinions solely on online reviews. 

The second limitation is space. Most popular online review sites limit customer reviews to 200 characters or less, which is inadequate space for customers to leave enough information to form a strong opinion about a professional employer organization. 

I decided to get around these limitations by speaking directly to real customers. I did this by reaching out to existing acquaintances and friends, customers I’d made PEO recommendations to, and visitors to my site. This allowed me to ask the customers extensive questions, and gave them a chance to provide lengthy and detailed responses. This information was enough to fill in the gaps and help me form a picture of what it’s like to work with each of the Kansas PEO providers on my list. 

Stage 4: Speaking With Their Sales Teams

The last stage involved speaking to sales and customer service teams to find out how the companies handled criticism and negative feedback. This information is important to determine what it’s like to work with a professional employer organization on a long-term basis. Does it constantly seek to grow and innovate, or is it stubbornly stuck in its ways? Does it own up to its failures, or does it try to pin the blame on its customers? The way that each Kansas PEO company reacted to this less-than-positive feedback was quite telling, and it really separated the A-list players from the rest. 

Ranking Factors

These are the five rating factors I used to find the best PEO.

Factor 1: Offerings

The first rating factor is offerings, that is, what exactly you’ll get out of each PEO. 

It doesn’t make any sense to partner with a professional employer organization seeking specific benefits or features if that Kansas PEO doesn’t actually supply those benefits or features. So to ensure that you don’t wind up with a PEO that offers incomplete or substandard services, I created a comprehensive spreadsheet with each Kansas PEO’s services and its prices and then ranked them all accordingly. 

Factor 2: Price

The second factor was, of course, price. 

Kansas PEOs charge a wide range of prices for various products and services. This disparity is so great that it’s not uncommon for two different Kansas professional employer organization companies to provide the same services but charge drastically different prices for them. What’s even more frustrating is that most professional employer organization providers don’t provide their price information unless you participate in a sales call. So, I chose to rate each Kansas PEO based on its prices. 

Factor 3: Ease of Sign-Up

The third factor I considered was how easy it was to sign up with each Kansas professional employer organization. 

Some Kansas PEOs require you to fill out loads of forms and spend weeks looking for seemingly insignificant bits of information, while other Kansas PEOs obtain a lot of the information they need about your business from government websites, which takes a lot of work out of the onboarding process for you and makes the process go more quickly. 

Factor 4: Ease of Use

The fourth rating factor I used was the ease of use of each Kansas PEO’s system. 

It’s obvious to me that some Kansas professional employer organization providers have spent millions of dollars and loads of time to update their servers and provide their clients with productive, user-friendly interfaces. Other PEOs just add new features to already outdated systems and then write huge user manuals in an attempt to explain their complicated systems. 

Of course, it’s far preferable to choose a professional employer organization with an automated, user-friendly system. So, to make sure that you don’t choose a Kanasa professional employer organization with an outdated, confusing system, I rated each PEO company according to how easy its system is to use. 

Factor 5: Customer Service

The last factor I chose to rate each Kansas professional employer organization on is its customer service. 

It doesn’t matter how streamlined and user friendly a company’s system is, you’ll still eventually run across a technical issue or have a question about its services. And it’s during these times that a PEO’s customer service quality really counts. 

Some PEOs make you wait on hold forever before you’re finally connected to an agent, only for that agent to be unskilled, untrained, and unable to answer your questions or help you in any way, other than making a promise to escalate your concern to management (which usually doesn’t happen). Then there are other Kansas PEOs who answer your call lightning quick and resolve your problems within a matter of minutes, which allows you to get back to your workday. 

The Best PEO for Your Business

Of course, Vensure is the best PEO option for many Kansas businesses. But it’s not possible for me to make a proper PEO recommendation for your business unless I have in-depth details about it. 

Before I can make a good PEO recommendation for your business, I need to know things like what industry your business is in, how big your company is, how many employees you have, the type of benefits you’d like to offer your employees, and more. 

If you’d like a free business analysis to find out about the needs and circumstances of your business, as well as a free PEO recommendation tailored to your business, then fill out the form below. 

Within 24 hours, I’ll contact you with your free custom business analysis and PEO recommendation. 

Since you’re here learning about business services, it’s a good time to learn about registered agent services, as well. A registered agent is a person or business entity that receives mail, legal documents, and service of process on behalf of your company during regular business hours. For more information about registered agents, check out my article about the best Kansas registered agent services. 

Click here for more information on the 9 best Kansas PEO companies. 

It’s also a good time to choose the structure of your business. You have several options available to you, including corporation, sole proprietorship and limited liability company (LLC). For more information about LLC formation, read my How to Start a Kansas LLC article. 

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