What is the Difference Between a Payroller or a Payroll Service.

Payroller or Payroll Service. What does this mean in the Entertainment Industry?

Payroller is a Labor Provider that supplies stagehand labor; a production company will call a labor provider to supply event labor when bringing their show or event to a town or city in America. The Production company (client) has no reason to deal with the required bureaucracy when needing labor from a state other than its home state. This is when the client calls the local Payroller/Labor provider in the area they are going to. When you call that labor provider in any town in America,

Payroll Service is the sum of all financial records of salaries, wages, bonuses, and deductions for an employee. A Labor provider may handle payroll internally, but there is a good chance they outsource their payroll. A payroll company handles payroll; Payroller handles labor. A payroll company's responsibility is to ensure that all deductions appear on the paychecks. The payroll company added federal and state taxes and withholding requirements to the paycheck. Those numbers are sent to the Payroller before any paychecks can be processed. Most companies outsource their payroll service.  

There are many entertainment payroll companies to outsource to.  ABS, Collective Payroll, Cast & Crew, Entertainment Partners. This is several names that come to mind. At the end of the day, hiring a payroll service simplifies payroll.

Does the labor provide have a CBA with the labor union or are they a non-union organization, the Payroller dispatches the workers, the Payroller supplies the crews, the Payroller supplies all the safety gear, the Payroller fill out all the labor time sheets, the Payroller deals with workers injuries, the Payroller provides pay rates and tracks all hours worked, then sends all this information to the payroll service for a week total, the Payroller has a person on staff whose sole job is dealing with payroll accurarcy before sending any paperwork to the client of payroll service. The payroll company adds all federal and state or extra required taxes to Payrollers numbers, then sends this cost back to the Payroller for authorization to proceed with cutting workers' paychecks. 

WE ARE IN-HOUSE PRODUCTION. WE USE A LABOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CALLED STARS TO SIMPLIFY THIS PROCESS. OUR TRACKING, DISPATCHING, DEPARTMENTS, AND RATES ARE TAKEN CARE OF IN STARS, WHICH SIMPLIFIES WHAT WE SEND TO OUR PAYROLL DEPARTMENT AND TO THE CLIENT.