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Fractional HR, Columbus, Ohio

Fractional HR for Columbus small businesses

Bevel HR runs the people function for Columbus 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.

$1,800/mo
Starting retainer
~25%
Of a full-time HR hire
Days
To start, not months
Who we help in Columbus

Columbus businesses that need real HR, not another tool.

We work with insurance and financial services, logistics and e-commerce, tech, healthcare, and higher education across the Columbus metro. 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.

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HR keeps landing on the founder
Columbus has quietly become a major insurance, logistics, and tech hub, and a lot of its fast-scaling employers are hiring remotely across state lines for the first time, and every offer letter, complaint, and policy question routes straight to the top. That's founder time you can't get back.
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Hiring fast with no system
The team is expanding, but there's no repeatable way to bring someone on. Improvised starts turn into preventable six-month departures.
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Ohio compliance gaps piling up
Ohio is at-will with specific final-pay timing and standard federal overtime, and comparatively few state mandates. The risk for Columbus employers is almost always the remote workforce, hiring into states with paid leave, harassment training, and pay-transparency rules Ohio doesn't have.
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A full-time hire doesn't pencil out
Bringing HR fully in-house costs $70,000–$90,000 a year, and at 10–50 people you'd be paying for hours you don't have work to fill. Fractional matches the cost to the need.

HR compliance in Ohio, what Columbus employers need to know

Ohio is at-will with specific final-pay timing and standard federal overtime, and comparatively few state mandates. The risk for Columbus employers is almost always the remote workforce, hiring into states with paid leave, harassment training, and pay-transparency rules Ohio doesn't have. 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.

Fractional HR in Columbus

Why Columbus businesses bring in fractional HR

Columbus's economy has its own texture, and it drives the HR work. Columbus has quietly become a major insurance, logistics, and tech hub, and a lot of its fast-scaling employers are hiring remotely across state lines for the first time.

From insurance and financial services, logistics and e-commerce, tech, healthcare, and higher education, the businesses we help in Columbus are usually past the point where people work fits on a founder's desk.

On the compliance side, ohio is at-will with specific final-pay timing and standard federal overtime, and comparatively few state mandates. The risk for Columbus employers is almost always the remote workforce, hiring into states with paid leave, harassment training, and pay-transparency rules Ohio doesn't have. We keep that handled in the background so it never becomes the thing that blindsides you.

The Columbus market

What HR actually looks like in Columbus

Columbus has quietly become one of the Midwest's strongest economies: insurance and finance (it is a major insurance hub), Ohio State as an anchor, a fast-growing tech scene, and the Intel semiconductor megaproject under construction nearby that is reshaping the regional labor market.

Ohio follows federal wage law with an inflation-adjusted minimum wage and specific final-pay and wage-statement rules, staying moderate on mandates. For Columbus, the story is growth: the tech scene and the coming semiconductor economy mean fast hiring, remote and out-of-state staff, and the multi-state compliance that follows.

A Columbus company scaling into the tech boom is almost always hiring across state lines before it has the HR to manage it. We keep the multi-state reality straight. See multi-state hiring.

Fractional HR services & pricing

Senior HR for Columbus businesses. A fraction of the cost.

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 →

Foundation
$1,800/mo
6–8 hrs/mo · 1–20 employees

  • Dedicated HR request channel
  • Compliance monitoring & calendar
  • On-call Q&A (up to 2 hrs/mo)
  • New-hire paperwork guidance
  • One policy update per month
  • Monthly People Report
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Embedded
$6,500/mo
22–26 hrs/mo · 40–75 employees

  • Everything in Growth
  • Leadership team attendance
  • People strategy & org design
  • Comp benchmarking
  • Manager coaching
  • HRIS implementation
  • Quarterly board report
  • 4-hr urgent response SLA
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Common questions

Questions from Columbus businesses

How much does fractional HR cost for a Columbus business?

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Bevel HR retainers start at $1,800/month for Columbus businesses with 1–20 employees. Most Columbus clients at 15–40 employees land on the Growth package at $3,500/month, roughly 25% of the ~$70,000–$90,000 fully loaded annual cost of a full-time HR manager.

What Ohio employment laws do Columbus employers need to know?

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Ohio itself is relatively light, at-will, specific final-pay timing, federal overtime. For Columbus companies the exposure is the out-of-state remote hires who carry their own state's stricter rules back into your payroll and policies.

Do you work with Columbus businesses remotely?

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Yes, remote is how we work best. Columbus businesses get a senior HR partner reachable over video, Slack, and email, usually more available than an overloaded internal hire. Distance has never been the constraint; attention is.

How quickly can you start with a Columbus business?

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Within days of a signed agreement. Book a free 30-minute HR Assessment this week; if it's a fit, you'll have a proposal within 24 hours. Week one is your HR Audit, we review your current setup and surface what actually matters in the Columbus metro.

What size Columbus companies do you work with?

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We focus on Columbus businesses with 10–75 employees, the stage where HR is too complex to ignore but a full-time hire doesn't pencil out yet. We commonly work with insurance and financial services, logistics and e-commerce, tech, healthcare, and higher education.
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