Paylocity
All-in-one US cloud HCM for payroll, HR and spend
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 3 independent review sources
- 8,292 third-party reviews counted
- 1 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 1
- 7 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Paylocity ranks #7
Paylocity ranks #7 of 9 payroll & eor with a TOP SCORE of 46.
The category leader scores 70, a gap of 24 points.
That is 6 points below the category average of 52.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 71; its weakest is Web Authority at 23.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
46 → 43 ↓3.0
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.4/5 | 88 | 6.2k | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| Capterra ↗ | 4.3/5 | 86 | 1.9k | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| Trustpilot ↗ | 1.3/5 | 26 | 125 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 17% | 0% | 0% | 4.0 | 12 | 31 Aug 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | 12 | 31 Aug 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Vendr31 Aug 2026
- OutSail31 Aug 2026
- Software Finder31 Aug 2026
- Capterra31 Aug 2026
- Trustpilot31 Aug 2026
- Glassdoor31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Paylocity is a cloud human capital management platform that unifies payroll, core HR, benefits, time and labor, talent, spend management and IT provisioning on a single employee record. It is sold to US employers segmented as small (1-99), midsize (100-499) and enterprise (500+), plus accountant and broker partner channels. Buyer satisfaction among HR/finance administrators is high (4.4/5 on G2 from 6,243 reviews), while pricing is quote-based and not published on the homepage.
- Category
- Payroll & EOR
- Headquarters
- Schaumburg, Illinois, United States
- Products
- Payroll and tax filing, Core HR / single employee record, Time & attendance and workforce management, Benefits administration, Applicant tracking and onboarding, Performance management and corporate LMS, Expense management, AP automation, corporate cards and procurement, Identity & access management / IT provisioning
- Markets
- SMB, Midmarket, Enterprise, Accountants, Benefit brokers
- Countries
- United States
- Integrations
- 105 listed integrations (per G2 product listing)
- Pricing
- Not published · free tier: None pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- Paylocity Holding Corporation is a publicly traded US company (NASDAQ: PCTY) headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, and performs payroll tax calculation and filing on clients' behalf. SOC 2 / ISO certification status, money-transmitter licensing, benefits insurance-brokerage licensing and any regulatory actions were not verified in this session and remain an open gap.
- Official website
- https://www.paylocity.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Head to head
Category context
- This platform46
- Category leader70
- Category average52
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