Gusto MCP

Overview

Key features

• ●Employee + payroll
• ●Benefits + contractor
• ●Tax filings
• ●Onboarding
• ●API auth

Exposed tools

The MCP-tool names this server exposes. Your agent can invoke any of these when this server is connected.

• get_company
  Retrieve business profile (legal name, entity type, EIN, locations).
• get_employee
  Retrieve full employee profile (name, hire date, dept, pay, time-off).
• list_employees
  List all employees with pagination and filters.
• get_compensation
  Retrieve a pay rate record by UUID.
• get_contractor
  Retrieve full contractor profile.
• list_contractors
  List all 1099 contractors with pagination.
• get_contractor_payment
  Retrieve a contractor payment by UUID.
• list_contractor_payments
  List contractor payments within a date range.
• get_contractor_payment_group
  Retrieve all payments within a batched contractor payment group.
• list_contractor_payment_groups
  List batched contractor payment runs.
• get_payroll
  Retrieve a payroll run (earnings, taxes, deductions, net pay).
• list_payrolls
  List all payroll runs with filtering.
• list_payroll_blockers
  Identify issues preventing a payroll run.
• run_payroll
  Calculate and submit an existing unprocessed payroll.
• get_pay_schedule
  Retrieve a pay schedule by UUID.
• list_pay_schedules
  List configured pay schedules.
• list_pay_schedule_assignments
  Show which employees are assigned to which pay schedules.
• list_pay_periods
  List pay periods with links to payroll runs.
• get_department
  Retrieve a department by UUID.
• list_departments
  List all departments and their assigned employees.
• get_location
  Retrieve a company location by UUID.
• list_locations
  List all physical office or work locations.
• get_job
  Retrieve a job position by UUID.
• list_employee_jobs
  List all positions held by an employee.
• list_job_compensations
  Pay rate history for a job position.
• get_employee_home_address
  Retrieve an employee home address by UUID.
• list_employee_home_addresses
  List all residential addresses on file.
• get_employee_work_address
  Retrieve a work-location assignment by UUID.
• list_employee_work_addresses
  List all work locations assigned to an employee.
• list_employee_employment_history
  Complete work history timeline for an employee.
• list_employee_terminations
  Offboarding records for an employee.
• get_employee_rehire
  Info about an employee brought back after departure.
• list_employee_custom_fields
  Custom field values set for a specific employee.
• list_custom_fields_schema
  Definitions of all custom fields configured for the company.
• list_earning_types
  Earning type categories (regular, OT, bonus, etc).
• get_time_sheet
  Detailed time entries for a timesheet.
• list_time_sheets
  List all timesheets for hourly workers.
• get_token_info
  Info about current API token: scopes and accessible companies.

Best use cases

Integrations

Gusto

QuickBooks

Xero

Bench