How much does Payroll Guru make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Payroll Guru earns approximately $3.4K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.

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Who makes Payroll Guru?

Payroll Guru is published by Payrollguru, Inc. on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.

What is Payroll Guru's BU Score?

Payroll Guru has a BU Score of 48/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Payroll Guru

Quality Score

Emerging

Payroll Guru

Name: Payroll Guru — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Payroll Guru revenue, Payroll Guru app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Business revenue, Android app revenue

Medium confidence

3.2 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Payroll Guru is an Android app from Payrollguru, Inc. in the Business category, currently rated 3.2★ across 191 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 48: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Business app, that means early traction worth watching. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$3.4K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$3.0K – $10.7K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$2.8K – $24.8K

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost

$115K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $85K – $155K

$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build

📈Pays back in ~2.8y at current MRR

Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.

Where the money goes

🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship)	+$28K
📱5 unique screens × $4.5K	+$22K
⚙Business complexity ×1.50	+$25K
🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$41K

Total estimate$115K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value

$40K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $30K – $50K · 12× MRR multiple

💸~0.3× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.

How the multiple was built

📺Ad-supported base	15× MRR
⭐★ rating < 3.5 (weak)	-18%
🏷Business category multiple	+10%
⭐Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple12× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

12K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

2.6K

Daily active

780

Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.

How we sized it

📲Business engagement	~65 installs / rating
🔁Business D30 retention	22%
📍DAU / MAU stickiness	0.30

DAU / MAU30% sticky

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$3.4K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$2.9K – $6.8K

12 months

$3.0K – $10.7K

24 months

$2.8K – $24.8K

Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.2

Product Quality

4.2

Revenue Strength

3.5

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

3.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

8.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $8K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.0★ across 183 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — no material risk signals detected.

🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $61K-$109K. Portfolio play ($31K/mo combined) commands premium.

Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.

Range:

💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL

Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.

🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Paid app ($4.99)METRIC		+$2,800
Below-average rating (3.2★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (15y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Early-stage install base (191 ratings)METRIC		+$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Payroll Guru
Developer: Payrollguru, Inc.
Bundle ID: com.payrollguru.paycheckcalculator.full
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Business
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.payrollguru.mobi
Tagline: Not found
Description: Not found
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $3.4K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

Founder data not yet collected for this app.

Funding

Funding data not yet collected for this app.

Press & Links

Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.

Contacts & Socials

Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.

📈Ratings growth191 ratings+23% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.

📝 About this app

*** Payrollguru app updated for year 2024 payroll taxes! ***

Payroll Guru calculates net paycheck amount from gross wages for Salaried and Hourly paid employees. 

For Salary calculation just enter Gross Pay amount, and put nothing into rate and hours fields. For Hourly enter hourly rate, hours, overtime and double time if applicable.

The application will calculate payroll taxes for the current date and tax year. 

Application features 8 deductions that can be set as pre-tax of post-tax deductions.Each deduction can be customized to be a fixed $ amount or a % of the pay amount.… View full description on the official store →

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