About Us
Our Story
Between 1998 and 2005, CPHR's Principals, entrepreneur Jeff Plakans and payroll veteran Chris Murray teamed up to help Jeff's Dad grow his company, Payrolls Plus, from 50 clients to over 8000. During its run, Payrolls Plus became known amongst its clients for a trademark high level of customer service, taking ownership of its client's issues and holding its customer's hands whenever needed. We were very proud of what we built and what we stood for to our clients. They demonstrated this by their loyalty, not only by staying with us but referring their peers.
After merging with many fellow licensees of the same technology in 2005, Payrolls Plus became Paychoice, at the time one of the largest payroll processors in the U.S. Jeff and Chris both left the company when it was clear that corporate priorities and the focus on customers had changed.
Commonwealth Cash Management
In 2006 Jeff founded Commonwealth Cash Management, a company founded to allow the ownership and management teams of our client companies - from Main Street businesses to closely-held or family-held conglomerates - to gain or regain focus by providing a cost-effective, proven and transparent system of business process outsourcing. This includes bookkeeping, cash management and payment systems, payroll processing, HR transactional and automation solutions, financial planning, HR compliance, risk management, accounting and human resource expertise. By solving our clients' business challenges directly or providing them with resources to do so, we allow them to efficiently return their attention to their core competency - or what made them successful in the first place.
Commonwealth Payroll & HR
In 2008 Commonwealth Payroll & HR grew from CCM, and in 2010 Chris joined the firm. Since that time , we have renewed the original approach that worked so well for us at Payrolls Plus, and combined it with better and more evolved payroll solutions that allow our clients to become more efficient, more conveniently, without giving up the level of customer service that our clients at Payrolls Plus enjoyed. And the approach that made us successful in the first place is regaining momentum, as we have been joined by many of our former clients at Payrolls Plus and from other firms. Call it Payrolls Plus 2.0 - we do!