How much does bookkeeping cost in the United States?

Core bookkeeping starts at $350 a month for up to 150 transactions, and growth-stage support for 150–500 transactions a month runs $800. An in-house US bookkeeper costs roughly $1,800–$2,500 a month in salary alone, before benefits, software and holiday cover. You get a written quote within 24 hours of us seeing the file.

Do you handle 1099 filing as part of US bookkeeping?

We keep contractor payments coded and W-9 data collected through the year, so the 31 January 1099-NEC and W-2 run is a report rather than a reconstruction. Preparation and filing itself sits with our Compliance Team or your CPA — deliberately separate from bookkeeping so liability and pricing stay clean.

Will you tell us if we have sales-tax nexus in another state?

Yes. We tag revenue by destination state as it is booked, so you hear about a state's economic nexus threshold — commonly $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions — as you approach it rather than after you have crossed it. Registration and filing are then scoped as a separate compliance engagement.

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Bookkeeping in the United States

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Why US businesses choose Salt

American businesses pay the highest local bookkeeping rates in the world for work that is largely software-driven. What genuinely needs judgement is narrower than most firms admit: revenue coded by destination state, contractor payments captured cleanly enough to survive January, and a close that produces statements a lender or an investor will accept without a caveat.

Two IRS dates depend directly on the books: 31 January for 1099-NEC and W-2, and 15 March or 15 April for the return itself depending on entity type. The obligation that catches people is not federal at all — economic nexus, commonly $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions into a state, creates a sales-tax registration with no physical presence, and the bookkeeping is where it first becomes visible.

United States filing calendar

The deadlines we track against your ledger.

Recurring United States compliance deadlines and the authority each is filed with
Obligation	Frequency	Due	Authority
State sales-tax returnsBusinesses with economic or physical nexus in a state	Monthly	Commonly the 20th of the following month — set by each state and by filing frequency	State DOR
1099-NEC and W-2 to recipients and the IRSAny business paying contractors or employees	Annual	31 January	IRS
Form 1120-S / Form 1065 (S-corp and partnership returns)S-corporations and partnerships on a calendar year	Annual	15 March	IRS
Estimated tax instalments	Quarterly	15 April, 15 June, 15 September, 15 January	IRS

Last reviewed against the source 12 August 2026. These are the standard dates. Extensions through a registered agent, a non-calendar year end, and volume-based filing frequencies all shift them — confirm your own dates with IRS. This is general information, not tax advice.

Bookkeeping deliverables

Weekly bank & credit-card reconciliation
Receipt and document matching
Monthly P&L and Balance Sheet
Chart-of-accounts maintenance
Month-end close on a fixed calendar
Dedicated bookkeeper inside your software

United States software stack

QuickBooks Online

NetSuiteXeroBill.comGustoAvalara

QuickBooks Online is the US default and we work inside your existing file rather than migrating you off it. Where multi-state sales tax is live we connect Avalara or TaxJar so rate determination stops being manual, and Bill.com or Gusto where AP and payroll volume justify it.

What this costs in practice

A worked example, in your currency.

A Delaware-incorporated SaaS company, 4,200 transactions a month, selling into 14 states.

In-house bookkeeper (fully loaded, per month): $5,800
Salt bookkeeping + controller layer: $1,850
Monthly saving: $3,950

Fully loaded cost assumes salary plus payroll taxes, benefits, software seats and management time — not base salary alone.

Standards and authorities

The framework your United States accounts are held to.

We prepare to US GAAP, as codified by the FASB. These are the bodies that set that framework and the authorities you file with — linked so you can verify the standard rather than take our word for it.

Listed for reference. Salt Accounting Group is not stating membership, registration or affiliation with any of these organisations. Where a filing must be lodged by a registered local agent, it is — your agent keeps the lodgement and the professional sign-off.

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