Our mission
Make payroll and HCM infrastructure simpler, more connected, and more valuable for the partners who build on it and the people it pays.
Since 2018: more than $35 billion in payroll and taxes paid on the platform.
About Worklio
Worklio builds the white-label, embedded payroll and HCM infrastructure that PEOs, ASOs, payroll service bureaus, staffing firms, and software platforms offer under their own brand. Partners keep the customer relationship. We run the platform underneath it.
Payroll is not merely a calculation. It is trust delivered on time. Worklio was built by operators with decades of experience in multi-tenant payroll infrastructure, tax compliance, and large-scale SaaS delivery, and the platform has processed more than $35 billion in payroll and taxes since going live in 2018. Our standard is simple: careful enough to be trusted with payday, and fast enough to matter.
Make payroll and HCM infrastructure simpler, more connected, and more valuable for the partners who build on it and the people it pays.
Since 2018: more than $35 billion in payroll and taxes paid on the platform.
Become the most trusted employment operating system, delivered under our partners' brands and powering businesses and people through one connected platform.
White-label by design: partners keep the customer relationship, we run the platform underneath it.
Remote-first. Connected by purpose. We work across offices, countries, and time zones. Clear communication and strong ownership keep us one company, so partners deal with one accountable Worklio team, wherever the work happens.
At Worklio, we build tools that make your work life easier. Our technology simplifies workflows, cuts manual steps, and helps teams get more done.
We back our customers and our partners alike, helping them run more productive operations and reach better outcomes together.
Work with us. Build something real, solve hard problems, and help partners grow their businesses. At Worklio, the work matters.
Explore careers at WorklioWith over 20 years of experience, we have been developing sophisticated software technology used by millions of people and processing billions of transactions.
2002
Our core team’s roots go back to 2002, building sophisticated, high-scale software. That experience laid the foundation for everything Worklio would become.
2014
Worklio began with one idea: bring payroll, HR, benefits, insurance, time, and workforce management into one connected experience. The market taught us quickly that payroll was not another feature. It was the core connecting compliance, benefits, and workforce data.
2017
Worklio LLC was established to build that infrastructure for the organizations that serve employers, many of them running on aging systems: PEOs, ASOs, payroll service bureaus, and staffing firms. Payroll came first. The complete platform followed on that foundation.
2018
The platform launched with its first reseller and beta partners in 2018, marking the beginning of live operations, real-world learning, and rapid product expansion.
2019
DecisionHR, a Florida PEO with 27,000 worksite employees, brought its payroll and HR operations onto Worklio and proved the platform at PEO scale.
2020
The infrastructure ran API-first, building out the endpoints behind embedded payroll and partner integrations. In January, Worklio announced a full compliance audit had verified its ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications.
2021
FrankCrum chose Worklio as its embedded API payroll provider: headless payroll infrastructure behind its own platform, for 4,000 client companies and 70,000 worksite employees. The annual ISO supervisory audit re-verified security and quality management.
2022
Worklio announced its SOC 2 Type 2 report in January. In September it launched its embedded payroll infrastructure, with FrankCrum as the first embedded, headless, API payroll consumer. The payroll API already counted more than 1,300 endpoints.
2023
ISO 27018 certification for personal data in the cloud was added in April, and a comprehensive supervisory audit was completed in December.
2026
Founder Robert Österlund published Payroll Unlocked, a 388-page operator’s manual. The API gained time and attendance, rebuilt benefits, general ledger, and W-4 domains.
Unlike many successful tech companies, Worklio has not sought venture capital. This may make us appear unconventional. To date, the founders have invested approximately $20 million in the company, and we have bootstrapped our growth. That keeps complete ownership and control with the founders and employees: Worklio is 100% founder and employee‑owned.
As a provider of payroll services, we recognize our pivotal role in ensuring our customers' employees are paid accurately and on time. We operate under a fiduciary duty to prioritize this responsibility.
Great companies are built by exceptional people, and ours keep our operations compliant and our standards high. We could grow faster by seeking outside funding. We have chosen to bootstrap instead, because a payroll partner should not be one funding round or one acquisition away from changing direction. We build for the long term: products, partner relationships, and a company designed to last.
PEOs, ASOs, payroll service bureaus, accountants, staffing firms, and vertical SaaS platforms run payroll and HCM on Worklio infrastructure under their own brands.
We are in it for the long run: reliable operations, compliant growth, and long-term value for partners.
Worklio leadership team
Founder & CEO
Two decades of operating experience, first funding payroll as an employer, then building the systems. Author of Payroll Unlocked (2026).
President
Responsible for Worklio’s US corporate leadership and administration.
CTO
Has built high-scale software with the founder since 2002 and shaped the platform’s architecture.
COO
Twenty-seven years of payroll operations leadership at national payroll providers. Owns implementation, payroll operations, and service delivery for partners.
President, Benefits & Insurance
Leads Worklio Insurance Services, licensed in all 50 states and DC. Twenty-five years across finance, insurance, and technology, including health funds covering 55,000+ lives.
President, Tax & Payroll
Founded Employee Based Systems and built its payroll and HCM platform from the ground up. Thirty years of payroll and payroll tax software.
Our leadership team owns what partners depend on: payroll and tax, benefits and insurance, technology, and operations. One accountable Worklio team runs the infrastructure, moves the money, and files the taxes.
Implementation starts with a sandbox and a scoped rollout plan, so your team is building from the first day.
Scope, owners, and dates are written down. Partners go live fast without skipping the steps that protect payday.
Migrations run the old and the new payroll side by side and pass a go-live gate before cutover.
After cutover, one Worklio team stays accountable for the platform, the money movement, and the tax filings.
8 AM to 8 PM ET
Payroll operations experts on the line
99.9%
Availability target, monitored 24x7
SOC 2 Type 2
Controls behind every release and run
100+ years
HCM, insurance, and payroll experience across the leadership team
Volume and coverage figures as of July 2026. Certifications and the SOC 2 Type 2 report are maintained through recurring independent audits.
2018
Live payroll in all 50 states since 2018
100% Own Technology
Infrastructure built from the ground up, no legacy code
2022
Embedded payroll infrastructure launched; FrankCrum the first embedded API partner
50 states
Payroll available in all 50 states
SMB to enterprise
From one employee to partners with 70,000 worksite employees
$35+ Billion
Payroll and taxes paid on the platform, cumulative as of July 2026
Audited Financials
By leading firm CohnReznick
ISO & SOC Compliant
SOC 2 Type 2 controls; certified ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and ISO 27018
Worklio California Office
2603 Camino Ramon, Suite 200
San Ramon, CA 94583
Corporate leadership and administration
Worklio Florida Office
801 Brickell Ave, FL 8
Miami, FL 33131
Payroll and tax operations, customer operations, and support
Worklio LLC is a Florida company with offices in San Ramon and Miami. Payroll runs for employers in all 50 states. Customer data is hosted on Microsoft Azureand stored in the United States. Payroll operations support is available 8 AM to 8 PM ET. Contact our offices.
Each certification and the SOC 2 Type 2 report are renewed through recurring independent audits. Outside firms run penetration tests, scans, and threat detection on an ongoing basis.
SOC 2 Type 2
Security, availability, and confidentiality trust services criteria
ISO 27001
Information security management
ISO 27018
Personal data in the cloud
ISO 9001
Quality management
The controls behind these badges are on our Security page.
Worklio was not created to be just another software company. We are building technology, services, and relationships that employers, employees, partners, and entrepreneurs can depend on.
We notice, decide, act, follow through, and improve what we touch.
Payroll and workforce technology carry real responsibility. Accuracy, reliability, and integrity come first.
We learn it deeply, use it, question it, support it, sell it, and make it better.
Technology, regulations, markets, and customer expectations change. Curiosity keeps us relevant.
Small, consistent improvements compound into exceptional products and companies.
Share knowledge, communicate openly, respect colleagues, and leave ego at the door.
Avoid unnecessary bureaucracy. Focus on outcomes. Make responsible decisions at the right speed.
Safeguard customer information, company systems, commitments, and our reputation.
Create products, relationships, careers, and a company designed to last.
We move with purpose, protect trust, help one another succeed, and build for the long term.
Worklio is a Microsoft Solutions Partner, a designation renewed in 2025. The infrastructure runs on Microsoft Azure with customer data hosted and stored in the United States, backups in multiple secure US locations, and a 99.9% availability target monitored around the clock.
How we run on Azure
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