Paylocity

Paylocity is a cloud human capital management (HCM) platform that combines payroll and core HR with a broad suite of workforce tools, aimed primarily at mid-sized businesses. Its foundation is full-service payroll — running pay, calculating and filing taxes, and handling compliance — integrated with HR data so employee changes flow through automatically. From there it expands into benefits administration, time and attendance, talent management (recruiting, onboarding, performance), and learning.

A distinguishing emphasis is employee experience and engagement. Paylocity includes Community (a social, collaboration, and communication hub), surveys, recognition, and a modern self-service app, plus analytics and dashboards for HR leaders. AI features assist with tasks like drafting job descriptions and surfacing insights. Because modules share one system and database, HR teams get connected data across the employee lifecycle rather than stitching separate payroll, HR, and talent tools together.

Paylocity serves mid-sized organizations (often roughly 50–1,000+ employees) that want an integrated HR and payroll platform with strong engagement features. Pricing is per employee per month (PEPM) and quoted rather than published: core HR/payroll can start around $5 per employee per month, while the fuller HCM suite commonly runs about $22–$33 per employee per month, with add-ons like recruiting priced separately. It competes with ADP, Paychex, UKG, Rippling, Gusto, and BambooHR, differentiating on its employee-experience focus and mid-market fit.