Free payroll and HR tools that give you a straight answer.
These free payroll and HR tools are here for the moments when you need a number, a draft or a benchmark and don’t have time to build it yourself. Use them as often as you like. Nothing is locked behind a paywall.
7,500+ organizations trust Netchex
Start with what’s live today
Three tools you can open right now. Each one solves a job HR and payroll teams usually do by hand or put off.
Free Employee Handbook Builder
Answer a few questions, pick the policies you want, and download a state-specific draft as a Word file. It gives you a real starting point, not a blank page.
Build Your HandbookPeople & Payroll Readiness Score (PPRS™)
A free, five-minute assessment that benchmarks your payroll, HR and compliance against your industry, then shows what the gaps could be costing you.
Get Your ScoreCompensation Benchmarking Tool
Compare what you pay against market data for your industry, so you can see where your rates stand and keep the people who keep your business running.
Get Your BenchmarkMore free calculators are on the way
We’re building these now. Every one will be free, and each will appear on this page the day it goes live.
Salary Benchmarking
Look up typical pay for a single role in your area before you write the job post or make the offer.
Paycheck Calculator
Enter hours, pay rate and location to estimate take-home pay after taxes and deductions.
Payroll Switch Cost Calculator
Estimate the time and money involved in changing payroll providers, so you can plan the move before you commit to it.
Tip Pooling Calculator
Work out how a tip pool splits across your team, in a format you can check before it goes into payroll.
Overtime Calculator by State
See what overtime looks like for your state’s rules, including where the state goes beyond the federal standard.
And we’re just getting started
We’ll keep building new free calculators and tools, and keep improving the ones already here.
Built to be useful first.
We run payroll and HR for more than 7,500 organizations. We know which questions come up every week, so we turned the answers into tools anyone can use.
Free, with no paywall
Every tool is free to use. No trial clock, no locked results, no surprise at the end.
Built from real questions
Each tool answers something employers ask us all the time, from handbook drafts to overtime rules.
Honest about what they are
Results are planning estimates. We’ll always point you back to your own records and your advisor for the final call.
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