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Top 25 Payroll recruiting firms based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 228 payroll recruiting firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 3,746 professional contacts across them, including 952 with verified work emails. Sydney is the largest hub.
This list covers payroll recruiting firms headquartered in Australia, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest payroll recruiting firms based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,447 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established as Australia’s first firm of organisational psychologists, Chandler Macleod has become the market leading provider of fully-integrated human resource services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tanda helps you manage and pay staff for the time they work - quickly and compliantly.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cornerstone HR (CHR) has offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth specialising in temporary labour hire & recruitment solutions across various industry sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Horner raises the bar in recruitment and HR, providing tailored support for organisations Australia-wide in a broad range of blue- and white-collar industries and government.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Omni Recruit is a privately owned recruitment agency providing a range of temporary and permanent staffing solutions for clients across a wide range of industries including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At CG Recruitment, we believe in the power of people to shape businesses, industries, and futures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Expect the unexpected.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exciting news: we are now part of Employment Hero!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shoolin is a leading provider of Recruitment, Payroll, Immigration, and IT professional services across the APAC region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Altara provides quality recruitment, labour hire and employment management services and advice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PayGroup is a leading provider of payroll and human capital management (HCM) solutions and employer of record delivering mission-critical services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MBC Recruitment is a well-established recruitment agency that manages permanent, temporary and contract assignments throughout regional and metropolitan NSW, and South-East QLD.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What if you could tap into one group for all your workforce management needs?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SDP Solutions is a contractor management company, who specialise in streamlined and innovative contingent workforce solutions and outsourced back office payroll and accounting…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We help businesses build a dedicated team of qualified experts without the worry of Office Expenses, HR, Recruiting and Payroll.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Recruit, onboard & manage employees, AI Analytics, L&D, compliance, single-touch & automation payroll, time & attendance, rostering, performance management + so much more!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The HB Group is the market leader in the provision of Recruitment, Labour Hire, Human Resources, Payroll Services, Business Services and Training needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empowering People, Empowering Business As an experienced staffing and recruitment partner, Casual Hands delivers a managed workforce that translates beyond the provision of labour.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At the heart of what we do is our determination to find high performing people for quality employers, the best temporary assignments for outstanding candidates and the right role…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Located on Sydney's Northern Beaches, we provide tailored, cost effective and legislatively compliant HR solutions!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “easyA is a leading recruitment agency specialising in permanent and contingent recruitment as well as payroll services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Top End Consulting was first established in August 2009 with a small office in Darwin CBD and three staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Canex Resources is a proud Australian Workforce Solutions company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Built around People, Focused on Futures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Backam Group, we specialise in providing businesses with immediate access to skilled, reliable staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: payroll recruiting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names payroll recruiting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of payroll recruiting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name payroll recruiting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Payroll recruiting firms based in Australia at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Australia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Australia, over 228 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among payroll recruiting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Australia whose own description of what they do matches “payroll recruiting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names payroll recruiting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among payroll recruiting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 952 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names payroll recruiting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many payroll recruiting firms are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 228 payroll recruiting firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Chandler Macleod, headquartered in Sydney, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most payroll recruiting firms?
Sydney leads with 49 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (37) and Brisbane (17).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 952 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 228 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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