How to save time on payroll admin

Blogs 21 Jul 2021

Hiring your first employee? Managing a team of 20? Our payroll experts from FSB Workplace Pensions and Payroll share how you can save time with payroll admin, manage a growing team, and keep your staff happy.


Taking the leap from working on your own to overseeing a team of employees can be stressful and time-consuming. Even if you’ve employed people for years, you’ll know how much responsibility running your own team brings with it. Employees come and go, new legislations are introduced, and it feels like there is always more paperwork to do. Aside from the day-to-day management of your staff, there are also monthly and annual payroll duties that you need to complete.

Whether your small business has a handful of employees or several departments, staying up to date with the intricacies of payroll can be a tricky and mundane task. Our payroll experts from FSB Workplace Pensions and Payroll have rounded up their top resources to make managing your team easier, and share how you can access additional support with payroll as an FSB member.

Make life easier with our free guide to payroll

Managing your payroll isn’t as simple as paying your employees, making the right deductions, and paying your contributions. From statutory pay and pensions to benefits and student loan thresholds, there’s a lot to consider every time you run payroll.

With our free guide to managing payroll and pensions, written by the experts at FSB Workplace Pensions and Payroll, you'll learn:

✔️ How to pay new staff or your first employee with a handy checklist
✔️ Tips for running payroll and regular jobs to remember
✔️ The records you need to keep
✔️ The contributions you need to make
✔️ If you can pay yourself using PAYE
✔️ Must-have payroll software features

Eight guides to get you started

We’ve made it easier to find advice you can trust with a selection of articles and guides from employment and payroll specialists:

Want to spend more time doing what you love?

With FSB Workplace Pensions and Payroll's bespoke payroll service, exclusively for FSB members, you’ll get more than just software. We help thousands of our members to love payday again by making paying your employees easy. 

✔️ Don’t pay more than you have to. From as little as £5 per month per payslip, we’ve got your workplace pension and payroll covered.
✔️ Rely on the experts. All you need to do is supply us with the information, and we’ll handle the rest.
✔️ More freedom. What would you do with the time you save on payroll admin?

Stay in control of payroll and pensions

FSB Payroll and Pensions is more than just software. Access comprehensive support for small employers including a discounted payroll service and tailored workplace pensions packages.

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