Award Winning Payroll Specialist
And the only one you'll deal with.
When you work with Payroll Consult, you work with Karyn Campbell directly. No account managers. No junior consultants who check with someone senior. Just one person who has spent her career getting NZ payroll right.
🏆 NZ Payroll Partner of the Year 2025
Karyn's Story - Why I Started Payroll Consult
Most payroll problems I see have the same root cause: someone was given a login and told to figure it out.
That's how payroll gets passed down in small and medium NZ businesses. One person inherits it from another, a few processes get documented (if you're lucky), and the cycle continues. The Holidays Act is complex, the software has settings no one fully understands, and the questions that come up don't have obvious answers.
For years, I witnessed businesses that have had this problem. I saw the same errors repeated — leave calculations on the wrong rate, final pays missing entitlements, software configured incorrectly from day one. And I saw the consequences: back-pay obligations, employment disputes, IRD queries that could have been avoided with basic expertise.
I started Payroll Consult because I wanted to be the person NZ businesses could call when those questions came up. Not a helpdesk. Not a junior consultant working from a script. Someone who genuinely knows this legislation — and can explain it in plain English.
That's what Payroll Consult has been from day one. And it's what it still is.
— Karyn Campbell, Founder, Payroll Consult
Credentials & Recognition
Why Clients Trust Karyn
✓ 🏆 NZ Payroll Partner of the Year 2025
The highest recognition in the NZ payroll industry, awarded for demonstrated expertise, client outcomes, and contribution to payroll compliance standards. This isn't a marketing claim — it's an independent industry award.
✓ Holidays Act 2003 Specialist
The Holidays Act is the source of most payroll compliance failures in NZ. Karyn has spent years working through its requirements — OWP vs AWE calculations, relevant daily pay, alternative holiday entitlements, and the edge cases that catch most payroll staff out.
✓ Certified Across All Major NZ Platforms
✓ iPayroll
✓ PayHero
✓ Crystal Payroll
✓ Smartly
✓ Employment Hero
✓ Sole Practitioner — By Design
Payroll Consult is deliberately a sole practice. Every audit, every migration, every training session, every support query is handled by Karyn personally. This ensures every client gets consistent, high-quality expertise — not whoever happens to be available.
How Karyn Works
Plain English, Always Payroll legislation is technical. Karyn's job is to make it understandable. You'll never receive a report full of jargon or a response that leaves you more confused than when you started.
No Unnecessary Complexity Some consultants make problems sound bigger than they are. Karyn's approach is the opposite: identify what's actually wrong, tell you clearly, and give you the most practical path to fix it. If your payroll is fine, you'll hear that too.
Responsive and Accessible When you're a support client, you get direct access to Karyn — not a ticketing system. Email responses typically within one business day. For urgent matters, we agree a priority process at onboarding.
Confidential and Trustworthy Every engagement is handled with strict confidentiality. Karyn doesn't share client data with third parties. Payroll data is sensitive — it's treated that way.
Genuinely Invested Karyn has built a business on the back of good outcomes for clients, and her reputation depends on the quality of her work. That's a stronger incentive than a satisfaction survey.
Wellington-Based, NZ-Wide Based in Wellington, working with businesses across all of New Zealand. Most work is done remotely via Zoom and screen sharing. In-person delivery available in Wellington.
Want to Know More? Let's Talk.
A 15-minute call is enough for Karyn to understand your payroll situation and tell you whether she can help. No obligation, no sales script.
