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Winner of G2 awards, including top 50 small business products

Why Companies Choose
Paychex vs. Paylocity

Paychex brings service, analytics, and mobile convenience that outperforms Paylocity.

Protect Your Team With Benefits Made for Growing Businesses

Paychex offers retirement or health insurance services to help streamline benefits administration.

Paylocity does not offer retirement or health insurance.

An employee looking at her 401(k) balance

Work With HR Experts Who Truly Understand Your Needs

Paychex offers bundled HR and payroll solutions, providing personalized guidance and expertise to help businesses optimize their HR and payroll processes.

Paylocity’s services are software-focused, with limited personalized or proactive support, leaving clients to navigate challenges alone with limited support.

A Paychex HR consultant advising a client

Make Smarter Decisions With Custom Reports and Predictive Analytics

Paychex allows easily customizable reports and advanced analytics tools, including predictive and prescriptive insights.

Paylocity relies on prebuilt report templates and lacks advanced analytics.

Using Paychex Flex for analytics and reporting

Take HR off Your Plate With Expert PEO Solutions

Paychex provides a full-service PEO option for HR outsourcing and business growth support.

Paylocity does not offer a PEO model.

The benefits of using a PEO for HR
person showing the mobile app from his smartphone

Mobile App and Payroll Features

Paychex’s mobile app lets employers process payroll, manage schedules, and more — from anywhere.

Paylocity’s app is employee-focused and does not support payroll processing for employers.

Integrate With Familiar Tools

Paychex Flex® seamlessly connects with dozens of software solutions for accounting, recruitment, HR, and more, enabling you to share data and collaborate within the systems you already know and trust.

Paychex Flex integrates with companies like Xero, Indeed, Intuit Quickbooks and Jirav

What Paychex Customers Have To Say

See how Paychex customers feel about their experience.1

One Stop Shop For All Things Payroll

“Ease of use, detailed or summary reports at your fingertips. If you need customer support, they are there for you.”

- Seagrove B.

Paychex Advantages

“Paychex covers our needs from Payroll to 401K and much more in between. We have a rep there that is more than happy to answer and/or take care of all our questions. Every question is addressed on the same day when it is possible. I use Paychex daily and love the support we get."

- Verified User in Human Resources

Easy and Quick!

“Easy to enter the information and to review immediately after it is done.”

- Verified User in Accounting

Our Specialists Are Ready To Guide You Through the HR Options and Find the Perfect Fit for Your Business

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World's Most Ethical Companies Award 2025
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Customer Satisfaction - IDC SaaS Award
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America’s Most Innovative Companies
Best Small Business-focused solution from HR Tech 2024 award
Best Small Business-Focused Solution
Top HR Product award
Top HR Product
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