Gevity Quarterly Dividend Increased by 16.7% to $0.07 Per Share

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of Gevity declared a dividend of $0.07 per common share, payable on April 29, 2005 to shareholders of record on April 15, 2005. This represents a 16.7% increase from the previous quarterly dividend level of $0.06 per common share, and is the second dividend increase in twelve months. Commenting on the dividend increase, Erik Vonk, Gevity's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer stated, "This increase reflects the continued confidence of our board in our prospects for the future."

Gevity further announced that A.D. Frazier, Jr. was elected to its Board of Directors at its meeting on February 16, 2005. Mr. Frazier is the former Chief Operating Officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and retired in March 2004 as President and Chief Operating Officer of Caremark Rx, Inc. Prior to his positions at Caremark, Mr. Frazier was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Stock Exchange. He was previously a global partner of AMVESCAP Plc., a London-based independent global investment management firm and the parent company of INVESCO, Inc. at which he previously held various executive positions. Mr. Frazier also serves as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Goldkist, Inc. and is a member of the Board of Directors of Apache Corp. .

Regarding Mr. Frazier's election, Mr. Vonk stated, "Gevity is very pleased to have the benefit of Mr. Frazier's varied business experience, which further strengthens our Board of Directors." Mr. Frazier will stand for re-election together with the other nominees at the annual meeting of shareholders to be held on May 12, 2005.

About Gevity

Gevity helps clients increase profits, grow sales and improve customer satisfaction through our comprehensive employee management solution. We serve as the insourced human resource department to small- and medium-sized businesses nationwide. Our unique approach integrates three key drivers of business success: workforce alignment, administrative relief and business protection. We deliver our solution through our innovative people, processing and portal approach, combining the resources of our highly skilled human resource consultants and our scalable, Web-enabled technology platform.

A copy of this press release can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.gevity.com/.

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