SurePayroll Sees Steady Optimism at Small Businesses

Online payroll provider SurePayroll Inc. is seeing strong optimism among its small business clients about the economy. The March 2014 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard and survey indicates that 87 percent of small businesses expect a strong or steady end to the first quarter. In addition, optimism about the small business economy remains high at 69 percent, according to the survey, almost unchanged from the beginning of the year. Those results come despite month over month hiring being slightly down at 0.1 percent and the average paycheck slipping 0.3 percent. However, three times as many survey respondents expect to finish the first quarter in better condition than last year.