Managed IT for a small business in Rockland, Westchester, or Bergen starts at $995 a month, with most 10 to 15 person offices landing between $1,000 and $2,800. The county doesn’t move the price. The size of your team and your environment does.
We get asked this in almost every first call, usually somewhere around minute three, right after “how fast do you respond.” Fair question. Nobody wants to sit through a forty-minute discovery call just to find out the number is outside their budget. So here it is, up front, before the sales pitch. No forms. No gated PDF.
The Real Number: $995 to $2,800 a Month
VJNetworks’ managed IT plans start at $995 a month, flat. For a business with ten to fifteen employees, typical engagements run $1,000 to $2,800 a month depending on environment complexity, number of servers, and compliance requirements. That’s not a teaser rate that jumps once you sign. It’s the actual range our current clients pay, month after month, invoice after invoice, without the mystery line items that turn up on somebody else’s bill six weeks in.
A Corsica Technologies pricing guide puts the broader New York metro market at $100 to $300 per user per month for fully managed small-business IT, depending on service depth. We price inside that range, not above it. A CompTIA survey of small and midsize businesses found that firms already using a managed provider spend somewhere between $10,000 and $49,000 a year in total IT costs, depending on headcount and complexity. Ours land on the lower half of that, mostly because we don’t nickel-and-dime every ticket.
Nobody publishes an exact number for your specific setup, and anyone who does before seeing your environment is guessing. Pure guessing. What we can tell you is the floor, the typical range, and what pushes you toward one end or the other.
What Drives the Price
| Team Size | Typical Monthly Range | What Pushes It Higher |
|---|---|---|
| 5 to 9 employees | Starting at $995/month | Single site, standard Microsoft 365 environment, nothing unusual |
| 10 to 15 employees | $1,000 to $2,800/month | Server count, compliance needs like HIPAA or tax-season data handling, a second location |
| 15 to 60 employees | Scales from the same market band | Multiple sites, deeper compliance, specialized software. We’ll give you a real number, not a guess |
Three things move that number more than anything else. Servers on site instead of cloud. Regulated data, healthcare records, tax files, financial accounts. And how many places you’re running IT across. That’s it. Everything else is a rounding error by comparison.
No, Bergen Doesn’t Cost More Than Rockland
Here’s a question we get from Bergen County owners specifically, usually phrased carefully, like they expect a “New Jersey tax.” There isn’t one. None. Our pricing tracks two things only, team size and environment complexity. Not which side of the state line you’re on. A Bergen County business with fifteen employees pays the same as a comparable Rockland business with fifteen employees. Same for Westchester.
We’ve covered all three counties from one Rockland base since 2004. That’s not a sales line. It’s just how the math works when you’re not paying rent on three separate offices to justify three separate rate cards, each one marked up to cover overhead the other two are already carrying.
What’s Actually Included
One monthly number. No hourly surprises, no ticket meter running in the background. Here’s what that covers:
- 24/7 monitoring and response, with a 15-minute reply standard, whether it’s Tuesday morning or a Friday afternoon before a long weekend
- Help desk support for your whole team, not just whoever remembered to renew a support contract
- Patch management and security updates, applied on a schedule instead of whenever someone gets around to it
- Backup management, including actual restore testing, not just a green checkmark that says the job ran
- Cybersecurity monitoring layered on top, not sold as a separate line item later
What’s not included, and we say this upfront rather than let you find out later: after-hours emergency work for non-managed situations, major projects like office buildouts or full infrastructure migrations, hardware itself, and software licensing beyond what falls under the managed contract. We’ll spell all of it out before anyone signs anything.
The Alternative to a Flat Number
Some owners look at $995 to $2,800 a month and think about handling it in-house instead, or sticking with hourly break-fix support. Both are real options. Fair enough. Neither is free the way it looks on paper.
A solo IT hire runs a loaded cost well past $100,000 a year once you count salary, benefits, and the training curve, and you’re still exposed the day that person is out sick or takes another job. Hourly break-fix support looks cheaper by the invoice and gets expensive fast the first time something breaks badly enough to need a weekend, an emergency vendor call, and a Monday morning spent explaining to clients why the phones didn’t work. The bill for reactive work always lands bigger than the bill for prevention. It just lands later, which is exactly why it’s easy to underestimate going in.
Getting an Exact Number
Ask for a number, not a range. That’s the whole philosophy. Not a brochure. Not a range with three asterisks. A twenty-minute conversation about your headcount, your servers, and what you’re required to protect gets you an actual figure, not a guess dressed up as one. If you’ve already started comparing providers, our guide on evaluating an MSP before you sign anything covers what transparent pricing should actually look like in a contract.
The Pricing Questions We Get Every Week
Is $995 a month really the floor, or does everyone end up paying more?
Do you charge extra for after-hours emergencies?
What happens if our headcount grows mid-contract?
Is switching from our current provider going to cost extra on top of the monthly fee?
Why does compliance change the price so much?
The number is $995 to $2,800 a month for most businesses our size, and the county line doesn’t change it, whether you’re running a ten-person office in Congers, a fifteen-person practice in White Plains, or a growing team in Hackensack. If you want the actual figure for your setup instead of a range, that’s a twenty-minute call, not a sales process.