About Gusto
What is Gusto?
Gusto is the people platform for small and growing businesses. In the company's own framing, "we're on a mission to grow the small business economy" — and it does that by handling "the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers." That single platform brings together payroll, benefits administration, hiring and onboarding, and compliance for employers who would otherwise juggle several disconnected tools.
Gusto now supports "more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide," and explicitly aims to be "a workplace that reflects the people we serve." For the owners on the platform, the pitch is consolidation: run payroll, offer health insurance and retirement plans, and manage HR from one connected system rather than stitching point solutions together.
Where will I work?
Gusto operates a remote-first model with "physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City." Its job descriptions reference "teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York," and note that pay for remote roles "will vary based on our geographical pay approach" — so the company hires across US locations (and, for some roles, Toronto) while anchoring in-person collaboration in those three hubs. Employees based in the hub cities collaborate in person there, while remote employees are placed on location-based pay bands published in each posting.
What is the Gusto team like?
Gusto frames itself around the small businesses it serves and is deliberate about ownership: "all full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success." Compensation is built with "a strong emphasis on equity-based compensation (ownership in Gusto)," and the company publishes a "Total Rewards" philosophy page describing how pay and benefits are set. Teams span product, engineering, customer care (including dedicated benefits-enrollment, benefits-onboarding, and payroll specialists), sales and business development, accountant-partner programs, compliance, and operations — a structure that mirrors the payroll, benefits, and HR product surface the company sells.
Work-Life Balance
Gusto offers unlimited paid time off, and pairs it with a remote-first culture that lets people work from many US locations. Because the company itself sells payroll and benefits software, internal compensation is handled with unusual transparency — cash compensation ranges are published directly in job postings (for example, "$20.51/hr—23.08/hr in Denver and most remote locations"), and a public Total Rewards page lays out the philosophy behind pay, benefits, and equity. Some customer-facing roles do flag that peak periods "require additional weekend overtime and blackout periods for paid time off," so candidates know the rhythm of those specific teams up front.
Perks and Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage
- Generous parental leave
- Equity (RSUs) for all full-time employees — "everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success"
- Transparent salaries — cash compensation ranges published in every job posting; public Total Rewards philosophy
- Professional development stipend