Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale runs two economies at once. Restaurants and independent retail downtown, consultancies and contractors everywhere else. What those two need from a bookkeeper has almost nothing in common.
Two business communities
Restaurants, bars and independent retail around Murphy Avenue.
Consultancies, contractors and small technical firms.
Most businesses sit clearly in one of these. If you’re somewhere in between, say so on the call and we’ll work it out.
Minimum wage
Sunnyvale sets its own minimum wage, above the California rate and on its own adjustment schedule. It applies to anyone working in the city, whatever your business is or where it’s registered: a part-time server and a junior consultant are covered by the same number.
If you employ people here, that’s a rate that has to be right every pay run, and it’s one of the things we track as part of running payroll.
Visit us
Our office is on South Bascom Avenue in Campbell, about ten minutes from Sunnyvale. Most clients never need to come in, but there’s somewhere to go if you’d rather sit down with someone.
Yes. Sunnyvale sets a city rate above California’s, and it adjusts on its own schedule. If you employ people here that’s the rate that applies, and it’s part of what we track when we run your payroll.
Mostly bookkeeping and 1099 tracking rather than full payroll. We’d also look at whether anyone you’re treating as a contractor would be classed as an employee under California’s test. That’s an expensive thing to get wrong.
Yes: reporting, distribution and the payroll treatment that goes with them. Tips are one of the main reasons restaurant payroll is a different job to ordinary payroll.
Usually. Plenty of clients keep what they have and hand us the running of it. If the system itself is the problem we’ll say so, but we won’t move you just to move you.
No. Smaller businesses are often where it matters most, because there’s nobody internal to catch things. We’ll tell you honestly if you don’t need us yet.
Nearby, we also work with businesses in these cities.
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Tell us which half of the city you’re in and what’s not working. We’ll tell you what it takes to fix it.
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