Bevel HR runs the people function for Boston companies with 10–75 employees, compliance, onboarding, payroll, and employee relations, so founders can get back to the business. Senior HR and people & culture support, starting at $1,800/month.
We work with biotech and life sciences, universities and edtech, healthcare systems, venture-backed startups, and professional services across Greater Boston. If you have 10–75 employees and HR keeps landing on the founder or ops lead, that's exactly who Bevel HR is built for.
Massachusetts runs Paid Family and Medical Leave with employer contributions, has earned sick time, strict independent-contractor classification (the toughest ABC test in the nation), the Wage Act with treble-damages exposure for late or missed pay, and a Pay Transparency law phasing in. For Boston employers, misclassification and Wage Act mistakes are the costliest errors. If you're also hiring remotely across state lines, the complexity compounds fast. We track state-specific requirements for every client so you're never blindsided by a rule you didn't know applied. See our multi-state hiring and HR compliance services.
In Greater Boston, the employers that come to us tend to share a pattern: boston's biotech and university ecosystems hire dense, credentialed teams fast, and Massachusetts has one of the most employer-unforgiving rulebooks in the country.
Our Boston clients span biotech and life sciences, universities and edtech, healthcare systems, venture-backed startups, and professional services, and the common thread is growth arriving faster than HR infrastructure.
Massachusetts runs Paid Family and Medical Leave with employer contributions, has earned sick time, strict independent-contractor classification (the toughest ABC test in the nation), the Wage Act with treble-damages exposure for late or missed pay, and a Pay Transparency law phasing in. For Boston employers, misclassification and Wage Act mistakes are the costliest errors. That's the kind of exposure we close quietly, before it turns into a claim.
Boston is biotech, higher education, healthcare, and financial services, stacked densely. The Kendall Square and Seaport clusters hold one of the world's deepest life-sciences economies, the hospital systems are enormous employers, and the universities seed a constant stream of startups that scale quickly and hire technical talent at a premium.
Massachusetts is a strict employment-law state. It has a strong paid family and medical leave program (PFML), earned sick time, a high minimum wage, pay-transparency requirements phasing in, and some of the most employee-protective wage rules in the country, including treble damages for wage violations that make mistakes genuinely expensive.
For a Boston company, the treble-damages exposure alone makes wage-and-hour accuracy non-negotiable, and the biotech hiring pace makes it easy to slip. We keep Massachusetts compliance airtight so a payroll error does not triple. More on compliance.
Monthly retainers that flex with your company. Minimum 3-month engagement, cancel anytime after. Fully remote, we can start the same week you sign. Full pricing & comparison →
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