Fully accredited and secure payroll services
Education Payroll Services
Specialist payroll services built for education
A cloud-based and fully compliant payroll outsourcing service built to simplify the complexities of education payroll. Driven by extensive experience working with 300+ colleges, schools, academies, and MATs.
CIPP Payroll Service Provider
of the Year 2025
Managed payroll services tailored to education
Sector specialists
We work with hundreds of education institutions; from primary schools, to multi-academy trusts and universities, across the UK. They trust us with their requirements, and so can you.
Built for your unique needs
We’ve built education-specific functionality into the payroll technology we use, from position management and reporting, to pensions.
Personalised, holistic support
Our CIPP-qualified support team who deliver our payroll services understand your challenges, and offer the highest quality of holistic and technical support when you need it most.
The software is just so usable, you build the system so the data is in the way which you want it! Anything in the system is reportable and you can design the reports yourself. There really is nothing like it on the market!
HR Officer
At a glance...
Cintra education payroll services
Education features
Our managed payroll services rely on our award-winning payroll software, Cintra People, which includes features such as MCR, MDC and iConnect, easy back-dating of pro rata payments, automated maternity pay schedules, and more.
HMRC compliant
As CIPP-qualified payrollers, everything we do is HMRC, GDPR and BACs compliant, keeping you up to date with legislative changes to helping to ease your compliance burden.
Advanced data security
Data security is of utmost importance within your school or college. That's why Cintra's cloud-based payroll platform is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified, along with our BACS and CIPP PAS accredited.
Fully integrated
We can sync your payroll with any back-office systems, and ensure a secure flow of HR data so that everything is accurate, consistent and maintained.
Data-driven
We can easily maintain TPA and LGPS banded contributions and accurately backdate pay, tax, NI, and pensions, all within the Cintra People payroll platform.
Pension administration service
We know how difficult it can be to keep on top of pension requirements in education. Our full pension administration service eases the burden across both Teachers' Schemes, LGPS, and private pensions.
Make running your payroll a breeze with fully managed payroll services from Cintra
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Manage pay structures and spine points with ease
Multiple roles? Multiple pay structures? Multiple pensions? Our education payroll software has post-specific features allowing you to manage multiple spine points, roles and salaries.
- Multiple pay scales and spine points
- Multiple contracts and roles per employee
- Multiple pensions
- Date-driven
- Automated calculations and deductions
- Automated payslip, P60 and P45 creation and delivery
We'd love to hear from you
Our education payroll outsourcing experts are on hand to discuss your unique challenges, and show you our services and software in action.
