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About Insperity

Insperity specializes in full-service human resources solutions for businesses that have between five and 5,000 employees. Individual solutions are also available, and companies can get help with recruiting, insurance, retirement, expense reporting and general HR consulting. Insperity serves thousands of businesses across the nation.

Pros
  • Helps outsource HR responsibilities
  • Offers insurance services
  • Highly rated user interface
Cons
  • Cost isn’t straightforward
  • Primarily offers UHC and regional choices

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Santa Cruz, CA
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Their support is really good. Their customer service reaches out to check in to make sure that we have everything we need. Their service has been very helpful. It frees up other p...

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Cumming, GA
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I find my interaction with Insperity staff to be productive, pleasant and professional… Their systems are excellent. Insperity fills the important payroll, compliance and HR roles...

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What is Insperity?

Insperity is a professional employer organization (PEO) that helps small and medium-size businesses with HR and admin services. If you’re a business owner, you can outsource tasks related to employee scheduling, benefits and payroll to Insperity. You’ll sign a co-employment contract and determine which tasks to assign to the PEO; from this point, both you and Insperity will be considered employers of your team. Note that Insperity doesn’t replace your HR team.

What does Insperity do?

Insperity offers a variety of HR and admin services:

  • Expense reporting
  • Full-service HR
  • HR consulting
  • Insurance services
  • Organizational charting
  • Payroll and human capital management
  • Performance management support
  • Recruiting services
  • Retirement 401(k)
  • Time and attendance software

Insperity works with you to provide HR solutions that fit your business as you scale. It can help reduce risks associated with administrative tasks, such as tax and reporting mistakes, I-9 issues and employee complaints, by providing worker’s compensation, payroll processing and HR assistance. It also offers hiring services, drug testing and other management help so you can focus on different aspects of your business.

Insperity pricing

Because its service model is tailored to your needs, the Insperity website doesn’t list prices; however, it charges on a per-employee basis instead of by payroll percentage, which means your cost won’t fluctuate month to month.

Insperity claims it can help you save time and money with these practices:

  • Improving hiring methods, which decreases turnover
  • Actively encouraging employees
  • Planning future strategies
  • Providing recruitment support
  • Offering performance management assistance
  • Providing strategic HR support and planning

Insperity FAQ

Who owns Insperity?

Paul Sarvadi owns Insperity. He is the chairman, CEO and co-founder of the company. Insperity has been publicly traded since 1997.

Is Insperity a PEO?

Yes, Insperity is a professional employer organization. It provides an outsourcing option for time-consuming HR tasks.

Where is Insperity available?

Insperity has over 90 locations across 33 states and in Washington, D.C.

Does Insperity offer HR solutions for small businesses?

Insperity is specifically geared toward small and medium-size businesses that need help with daunting HR tasks. It can take on payroll, benefits, employee training and other administrative responsibilities.

Is Insperity worth it?

Overall, Insperity offers small business owners a way to streamline their companies and help them grow. By outsourcing HR and admin tasks to a PEO like Insperity, you can direct your focus elsewhere within your business. Insperity doesn’t publish pricing information, but you can get in touch with the company to see if its services are within your budget.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed March 12, 2026

    Dealing with these people is as enjoyable as a root canal without painkillers. 2 years of emails and phone calls to get something as basic as a form mailed to my residence and this appears to be impossible. If you need to reach them via phone good luck. After having to give SS#, DOB, address just to be connected to a person the chances of speaking to that person are slim. The most likely scenario is the receptionist will contact the person you wish to speak with, that person will relay a message to the receptionist who in turn relays back to you. Forget direct communication. My personal experience has been these people are a joke of a company with little to no knowledge of how or what actual customer experience actually entails. I realize this is just my opinion based on my experiences but they are nevertheless MY experiences.

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    Hi Jeff, we appreciate your honest feedback. It has been shared with the appropriate teams as we work to make continual improvements. If you would like to discuss this further, please email us at Contact@insperity.com.

    Customer ServiceCoverageTechPriceRefunds & PayoutsStaffBillingFollow-Through

    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2026

    I am submitting this review and complaint to document a deeply concerning experience with Insperity that resulted in billing disputes, material misrepresentations, and—most critically—the withholding of payroll and compliance records required for a state audit. This review is factual, not retaliatory, and intended to inform other business owners evaluating PEO services.

    We began paying Insperity in July after being promised a September rollout. That rollout did not occur. Payroll access was not provided until the end of October, employee benefits were not fully implemented until after Christmas, and retirement services were not established until January 2026. These delays caused significant operational disruption, financial loss, and contributed to the loss of a foreman.

    Throughout this period, Insperity required and accepted advance payments. Due to delays and mismanagement, we effectively double paid for services, yet no refunds were issued. The medical insurance rollout was mishandled and resulted in costs more than double the quoted amount. Despite withholding funds from employee paychecks, Insperity has not paid Q4 unemployment insurance to date. We continue to receive invoices as though our account is still active, despite terminating the relationship. After termination, Insperity retroactively claimed our account was paid in arrears, contradicting our payment records and prior communications.

    Most concerning, Insperity is refusing to release payroll and compliance reports unless a disputed invoice is paid, even though those records were generated during periods already paid for and are required for a state audit. These records are client-owned and legally required. Withholding them places our business at regulatory risk. Insperity failed to deliver core services as promised, mishandled payroll and benefits, caused financial harm, and is now withholding legally required records. This constitutes a breach of contract and a serious failure to uphold their obligations as a PEO.

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    Hi Brandon. We take all feedback very seriously and are disappointed to hear about your experience as our client. We'd like to speak with you further to see how we can help. Please e-mail us at contact@insperity.com so we can discuss the particulars of your situation.

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      CoverageTechSales & MarketingPriceStaffTransparency

      Reviewed Nov. 16, 2025

      If I could give them zero stars I would. They fired my small business as a client out of the blue after 4 years saying we “no longer meet their risk tolerance”. Zero workers comp claims, zero HR complaints, very low usage of their services. My company is growing, with excellent financial performance, and very little employee turnover. No explanation. Just dropped. Left us scrambling shopping for group health, dental, vision, EPLI, workers comp insurance, switching 401k accounts, migrating payroll ABs what little services they are still willing to provide at the 11th hour. Our sales rep was very apologetic and always helpful, but the overall company is terrible and I will now tell the many business owners I know to avoid them at all costs. At a minimum, don’t ever trust that they will renew their contract with you. Be proactive well before renewal time to avoid the awful situation they left us in.

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      We appreciate your honest feedback. It has been shared with the appropriate teams as we work to make continual improvements. If you would like to discuss this further, please email us at Contact@insperity.com.

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      Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaff

      Reviewed July 8, 2025

      We used Insperity. I got laid off without being reimbursed for over a year's worth of trade work. The agent who was supposed to handle it did a horrible job by postponing meetings and being consistently tardy to her phone calls and appointments. She is as unable to answer if it was lawful for my termination without being made whole. I've reached out to insperity numerous times about this but they won't call me back. We're talking 3-4 months and potentially 10s of thousands of dollars. I will be handing it off to an attorney because insperity refuses to fulfill their legal obligations. Stay far away from this company..

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      Reviewed Dec. 16, 2024

      We switched from another PEO to Insperity in Sept of 2022. The onboarding process was so difficult that three weeks before the switch date, I told them just to stop the whole process. My sales guy talked me off the ledge saying that the hard part was over. 97% of the process was now complete. Just hang in there. So, I did. It was the worst business decision I've made in years. Three months into the payroll service, I was preparing to do my taxes and realized that they had my business classified wrong. (Had me as a sole proprietor versus employee of an S-Corp.) So, they hadn't been taking any payroll taxes out of my paychecks. When I asked them to correct the problem, they said that they couldn't fix any past paycheck problems and claimed it was my fault for filling out one of the many many many onboarding documents incorrectly.

      In addition, I was told that the service was a flat $159/employee per month. They promote "total transparency." But in fact, the reports that they generate about the fees collected are dozens of pages long. The monthly fee is broken down into a number of different columns. And those columns are mixed into a bunch of separate columns for benefits, taxes, etc. And none of the reports matched the debits being taken out of my bank account each pay period. I had no idea what I was actually paying for.

      After a year and a half, I had to have someone from Insperity decipher all the columns. It turned out that the $159/mo was actually $165/mo that went up to $175/mo after 12 months. (They claim they sent me details in one of the 10,000 emails they sent me. They probably did, but I hired them because I don't have time to do the HR stuff myself.) The kicker, though, was that they were also charging me an extra $39/mo for a fee that they called a co-risk employment fee. Again, this was probably something disclosed in the thousands of documents, but I've looked through everything and can't find any disclosure about that extra fee.

      The person walking me through the document couldn't explain it either. She tried to tell me that there are always additional fees that were unaccounted for, and that the extra monthly debit from my bank account was some type of benefit to me to keep my company from having to fork over a huge payment for something that never got paid. I asked for an example. She said, "Let's say that one of your employees got cancer. And they paid fees to the hospital and the insurance covered fee to the hospital. But some fees that the hospital wanted were still unpaid. That co-risk was used to pay the hospital for those extra fees that no one else were willing to pay." My response was, "What?!" She replied back saying that maybe that wasn't the best example. But she'd do some research and give me a better example. (She still hasn't.)

      The point is that unless you have an accountant and an attorney on staff, Don't sign any agreements with Insperity. I'm in the process of switching back to the old PEO, and I just got word that there is an extra $1000 fee to terminate one of my benefits. When I asked about it, the person responding sent a 13-page document I signed during the onboarding (again one of many many many docs) that had in a section called "Optional Service Fees (Upon Request by Customer)" a $1000 fee to terminate. I really don't know how the people working for this company sleep at night.

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      Customer ServicePriceStaffHonesty & Transparency

      Reviewed Oct. 7, 2024

      I took a moment to look at all the 1 star reviews and they are pretty on point. Sounds like we have all been treated the same. Salesmen selling how great Insperity will be but once they get you onboard (which took around 3 months for me!!) They just turn and burn. Salesmen both told me they would send me some business but it was just a lie to get me past their incompetent team who onboarded my company. Tax people screwed up my 941 and then blamed my last payroll company and when we double checked then they pointed the finger at me for not giving them the right information which also was what did it for me.

      They became unresponsive and our payroll specialist was anything but cold and I just didn't feel like I was a valued customer anymore. So, I decided to enter all of my payroll information that took them four weeks to do into Quickbooks online payroll and decided to cut down my costs to 1/4-1/5 of what I was getting charged by Insperity. Just a joke. My Director of Finance and I were just commenting back and forth and he just asked me: "Name one group over there where you would say did a decent job. They’re all lousy." I agree. And when Gwen asked why I was cancelling their service and I responded, just like always--no reply. They don't care. Go elsewhere!

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      Response from Insperity

      Hi Tim. We take all feedback very seriously and are disappointed to hear about your experience as our client. We'd like to speak with you further to see how we can help. Please e-mail us at social@insperity.com so we can discuss the particulars of your situation.

      Coverage

      Reviewed July 17, 2024

      We switched from Insperity PEO (WO) side to Non PEO (WX) Insperity due to changes in our workers comp insurance. We decided to keep with Insperity since I thought it was going to be an easy transfer as they stated it would be. It has been nothing but a headache and now all of our support team that's supposed to be there for you after implementation is unresponsive. I'm sitting here tying to process a payroll and can't because I get a hold of anyone for a question. I saw on Yelp that they have 44 reviews all with 1 star and the same complaint I have. The Insperity PEO company was great because you a dedicate contact to answer all your questions. The Non PEO Insperity leaves you in the dust!

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      Response from Insperity

      Hi, Connie. We take all feedback very seriously and are disappointed to hear about your experience as our client. We'd like to speak with you further to see how we can help. Please e-mail us at social@insperity.com so we can discuss the particulars of your situation.

      CoverageStaff

      Reviewed June 13, 2024

      As an employee of a company who used Insperity I would seriously warn buyers to be aware of how they treat people. Their failure to communicate during an employment verification process left me without insurance. They kept changing the requirements and not telling me where I could find forms they sent which were next to impossible to find on the portal. Employers, if you want your employees to twist in the wind with Insperity's incompetence, have at it. If you want a company that takes care of your employees, look elsewhere.

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      Staff

      Reviewed May 23, 2024

      We use all of the HR solutions with Insperity and they do a great job and there's always somebody available. We have a rep assigned for each thing -- payroll specialist, HR specialist, and they're very easy to work with and easy to get ahold of.

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      Customer ServiceCoverageStaff

      Reviewed May 22, 2024

      I always have good interactions with the customer support of Insperity. They have always given me what I need. Everything's been good. We utilize the 401 investment with them and the online time submission. It's nice not having to worry about doing all the taxes myself and all the health insurance for my payroll. And that really helps me out and saves me time. They get everything handled and they're always on time. My rep always either calls me back if she doesn't pick the phone up, or emails me back whenever I need to. She helps us a lot. I've recommended Insperity to other people.

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