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Hire an accounts payable specialist

Hiring an accounts payable specialist? Three things to know.

What it costs, how long it takes, and what changes when you fill the seat with us. The numbers come from the 17 AP, AR and payroll postings we read.

The cost
$76,800
a year, for an accounts payable specialist, at the $57,494 median of the 13 AP, AR and payroll postings that listed pay, once you add payroll taxes and benefits.
With usA named accounts payable specialist plus software agents. As the agents take more of the work, you pay for fewer hours. Quoted on the call.
The wait
About 90 days
is the median time to fill an accounting role. Until then the work lands on someone who already has a job.
With usNamed candidates for your posting, free to interview, and your pick working within the month.
What changes
On your schedule
a payment run ready for approval, with every bill entered and coded.
With usAgents read bills from the inbox and prepare the run. Your AP specialist checks each one, and nothing pays out until a person approves.
Get candidates for this seat
  • Free to interview
  • First month money-back
  • Six-month replacement
  • Month to month
What the posting asks for

What an accounts payable specialist posting usually asks for, line by line.

We read 17 US AP, AR and payroll postings in full. These are the duties they named most, and who takes each one when we fill the seat.

17 AP, AR and payroll postings read2 years: median experience asked, where stated16 of 17 were full time
What the posting asks forPostings that askWho takes it with us
Bills: enter, code, pay
9 of 17
agents
Agents read bills from the inbox, enter and code them. Nothing pays out until a person approves.
Bank and card reconciliation
8 of 17
agents
Agents match the lines. Your person clears what is left.
Journal entries and general ledger
7 of 17
agentsperson
Agents draft the routine ones. Your person reviews and posts them.
Month-end close
6 of 17
agentsperson
Agents make sure every bill for the month is in. Your person signs off the payables side.
Audit prep
6 of 17
agentsperson
Agents gather the invoices and approvals. Your person answers the questions.
Vendor setup and vendor questions
4 of 17
person
Your person sets up vendors, checks their details and answers their calls.
1099 preparation
1 of 17
agentsperson
Agents keep vendor totals current all year. Your person prepares the 1099s.

A posting counts if it names the duty anywhere in its text. From our September 2026 read of real US postings (AP, AR and payroll postings counted together). Your own posting is sorted the same way on the first call.

Who does what

Agents do the routine. Your AP specialist checks it.

The accounts payable specialist seat's month, as one checklist. The agents tick their lines first. Your AP specialist checks every one of them, then does the work that needs a person.

Square: done by software agents Round: done or checked by your AP specialist
5 of 5lines done by agents
10 of 10checked or done by your AP specialist
The payables month · accounts payable specialist seatin your own software
TaskAgentsYour AP specialist
Done by agents, checked by your AP specialist
Bills read from the inbox and entereddonechecked
Coding to vendor and accountdonechecked
Duplicate and mismatch flagsdonechecked
Payment runs prepared for approvaldonechecked
Vendor statements matcheddonechecked
Done by your AP specialist
Approvals and payment release·done
Exceptions and disputes·done
Vendor questions and onboarding·done
1099s at year end·done
Cash timing with you·done
Every bill in, nothing paid without a personevery line checked by a person

What you get, every month

The same list every month, checked by your person before it reaches you. The hours report shows the routine share moving to the agents over time.

On your schedule
A payment run prepared for approval. Nothing pays out until a person releases it.
Every weekday
Bills entered and coded as they arrive, with duplicates and mismatches flagged.
Every month
Vendor statements matched, and an accounts payable aging that is current.
At year end
1099s prepared from vendor totals kept current all year.
Every month
An hours report: what the agents did and what your AP specialist did, task by task.
What the seat costs

What an accounts payable specialist really costs you.

$57,494 is the median pay in the 13 AP, AR and payroll postings we read that listed pay. Posted pay is where the cost starts. Every employer pays two more lines on top: payroll taxes and benefits, at the federal average for companies under 50 staff.

That is $19,300 a year the posting never shows.

An illustration from public averages, not a quote. Each line is rounded to the nearest $100. Same method as our seat cost calculator, where you can put in the pay you posted. What loaded cost means

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SEATone year, loaded
Base paymedian of 13 postings with pay, rounded$57,500
Payroll taxes10.7%+ $6,100
Benefits and insurance23.0%+ $13,200
A YEAR$76,800
$6,400a month
$36.92an hour
+34%over pay
Before you meet them

Four checks, every candidate.

Every accounts payable specialist we put forward has been through all four before their resume reaches you.

Qualified

Years in the systems your post names, plus the degree or certificate it asks for.

Skilled

A timed test on sample books: a bank reconciliation and a month-end close.

Clear

A recorded call and a written answer, in plain English, that you can watch before the interview.

Checked

References and identity, done before the resume reaches you.

How hiring works

From your posting to an accounts payable specialist at work, inside the month.

Step 1

Send us the posting

The link, or paste the task list. We sort every duty on it, line by line like the list above: what software does from day one, what needs a person, and whether anything really needs the building.

Step 2

Meet named candidates

Named accounts payable specialists with real resumes, each already working alongside our agents and through the four checks. Interviewing is free.

Step 3

Pick one, and pick a way

Hire them onto your payroll, or take them as a dedicated person we employ. Either way the agents come set up for the software your posting names.

Step 4

First close by the 10th

Week 1 is access and procedures, week 2 is guided work against your current process, week 3 onward is full production. The first 30 days, in detail

If it goes wrong

Nothing here is hard to walk back.

A wrong hire costs you a quarter and a severance conversation. Every route below is reversible on purpose.

First month · both ways

The person is wrong for us

Try them with the agents for a month. If it does not feel right, we buy back every hour they and the agents worked.

Six months · hire

They leave or do not work out

A placement is guaranteed for six months: a replacement from our network, or the fee back as credit. Your pick.

You keep the person · hire

The software is not worth it

Then we leave and you keep the person. The hire is yours, on your payroll, directed by you.

Month to month · both ways

We want out

Your books live in your own software the whole time, so leaving is a handover, not a rescue.

Software

In your software, as it is today.

The agents connect to your accounting system with a user or key you create and can switch off. No switch required.

QuickBooks OnlineXeroOracle NetSuiteSage IntacctMicrosoft Dynamics 365Odoo
Where an accounts payable specialist's work often starts, also connected
BILLBILLBills in, approvals queued, payments prepared for release.
RampRampBills and card receipts coded as they post.
ExpensifyExpensifyExpense reports matched to the card lines.
ProcoreProcoreSubcontractor commitments and costs brought into the books.
BuildiumBuildiumVendor bills for each property entered and coded.

Your person also works in anything else you give them a login to, like your bank portal and your purchasing tools. The agents do not connect to those; they work on what those systems export. All 15 systems the agents connect to

Accounts payable questions

Who presses pay?

A person. The agents prepare the payment run; your person and whoever you name approve and release it. Nothing pays out without a person.

We use BILL or Ramp.

Good: both are in the software we work in. The agents work inside them alongside your accounting system.

Do the agents catch duplicate bills?

They flag duplicates and bills that do not match what was ordered or what the vendor billed before. Your person decides what happens to each one.

Can we limit what the agents can touch?

Yes. The access is a user or key you create, with the permissions you set, and you can switch it off in one click. Anything that moves money waits for a person to approve it.

What if the person is wrong for us?

Try them with the agents for a month. If it does not feel right, we buy back every hour they and the agents worked, and your other applicants are still there. After that, a placement is guaranteed for six months: a replacement from our network, or the fee back as credit against the agents fee. Your choice.

How fast can you start?

Within the month. Week 1 is access and procedures, week 2 is guided work against your current process, week 3 onward is full production. We never promise a start inside a week, because a careful handover takes longer than that.

Who is doing the work?

The person you pick, plus the people who check their work. Each one signs in with a second code on top of a password and works only inside your own software, and your data is encrypted when it moves and when it is stored.

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  2. What each would cost youFor your seat, against what the posting costs you today.
  3. What the agents takeFrom your own posting, task by task.