Pricing

Priced against the size of the problem.

Two ways to work with PayQuery: your firm runs matters on the platform, or PayQuery runs the engagement for you. Engagement fees scale with employee-years — the unit that actually predicts reconstruction effort — never with hours.

Where we're at: PayQuery is working with a small number of founding firms while we validate the platform against real matters. The numbers below show how pricing is shaped — every engagement still starts with a conversation, not a self-serve checkout, while we're at this stage.

Run it yourself

Founding-client pricing

For payroll consultants, accountants and employment lawyers running wage remediation for their own clients. Every tier gets the full engine — nothing is held back. Shown as a guide to how pricing is shaped for early firms; talk to us to confirm it for yours.

Per matter

$3,000

one matter · 90 days · indicative

Full forensic engine
One firm workspace
Standard report

Fits the one-off. Running 2+ matters a quarter? Practitioner pays for itself.

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Practitioner

$2,000/mo

or $20,000/yr — 2 months free · indicative

Up to 3 concurrent matters
Your branding on reports
All verified awards + updates
Email support

Fits the independent consultant with a steady remediation pipeline.

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Firm

$5,000/mo

billed annually · indicative

Unlimited matters
Team seats with maker/checker sign-off
White-label reports
Priority award verification requests

Fits bureaus and firms where remediation is a practice line, not a project.

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All tiers, one engine. The same verification gates, clause citations and audit trail on every plan — tiers change capacity and branding, never rigour. Prices ex GST and indicative while we're onboarding founding firms; confirmed when we talk.

Coverage

Awards & enterprise agreements

You never pay for coverage — you pay for verification speed. The award library grows free for every subscriber; enterprise agreements are client-specific documents, so verifying one is priced per instrument.

      Verified award library — every seeded modern award, clause-cited and
        updated at each annual wage review. New awards join the library free for all subscribers.
      Included
    

      Priority award verification — need an award we haven't seeded? We verify
        it against the Fair Work documents and it jumps the queue. One fee, then it's in the library
        for everyone — you're paying for the verification labour, never for the award.
      $4,000 one-off
    

      Enterprise agreement — self-serve — upload the EA, extraction assists,
        and your firm reviews and approves every rule before anything is priced. You own the
        verification; the platform enforces that nothing unapproved touches a figure.
      Included
    

      Enterprise agreement — verified onboarding — we do the extraction,
        clause-by-clause verification and rate anchoring; you approve the result. Priced per
        instrument, by complexity.
      from $3,500
    

EAs are build-once-use-once by definition — that's why they carry a fee each time while awards don't. In a direct engagement, instrument verification is already inside the quote.

Or we run it for you

Direct engagements — quoted, not metered

PayQuery quantifies the exposure and hands you the defensible figure: rule verification for your instrument, shift-by-shift reconstruction, reconciliation against what was actually paid, and a clause-cited remediation report. The estimate below shows how a quote is built.

Indicative engagement estimate$—

Employees

Claim period (years)

Data condition

Indicative estimate — final quote confirmed after data-quality triage

Estimates are indicative only and exclude GST. Every engagement is quoted after a look at the actual data — the number above is the shape of the quote, not a contract.

The sanity rule: the fee is always checked against found liability. A five-figure fee against six figures of quantified, clause-cited exposure defends itself — and if your matter turns out small, we'll say so and point you at the per-matter plan instead.

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Deliberately not offered

What this pricing refuses to do

No hourly billing. The recalculation takes seconds; hourly rates would price against the product's own point.
No per-seat pricing. Maker/checker separation is the governance story — charging per reviewer punishes doing it properly.
No freemium tier. A liability tool used free generates support load and no signal — for either of us.
No per-award charges. Coverage is the product — the library grows free for everyone. Priority verification is the only thing with a price, and it's paid once, ever, per award.