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Paychex

PAYXHR TechRochester, United States

Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Rochester, New York, Paychex, Inc. delivers comprehensive human capital management (HCM) solutions. The company primarily serves small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the United States, Europe, and India, addressing their needs in human resources, payroll administration, employee benefits, and insurance. Its diverse service portfolio includes: Payroll Management: Encompassing core payroll processing, payroll tax administration, employee payment facilitation, and ensuring compliance with regulations like new-hire reporting and garnishment processing. Human Resources Solutions: Providing support for employer compliance, HR and employee benefits administration, risk management outsourcing, and even the availability of professionally trained on-site HR representatives. Retirement Services: Offering full administration for retirement plans, which covers implementation, ongoing adherence to government regulations, reporting for both participants and employers, online access capabilities, electronic funds transfers, and other administrative tasks. Cloud-based HR Software: A suite of software products designed for efficient HR administration, including tools for benefits management, time and attendance tracking, digital communication, recruitment, and onboarding processes. Additional Business Services: This category features plan administration outsourcing, state unemployment insurance services, and various support functions for SMBs such as payroll funding and outsourcing (including payroll processing, invoicing, and tax preparation), payment processing solutions, financial wellness programs, and a resource center for small business loans. Insurance Offerings: Providing both property and casualty coverage, which includes workers' compensation, business-owner policies, cybersecurity protection, and commercial auto insurance, alongside health and benefits coverage like medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Paychex primarily distributes its services through its dedicated direct sales team.

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Paychex at a glance

Paychex is a hr tech company headquartered in Rochester, United States, founded in 1971. It is publicly listed (PAYX) with a market capitalisation of $39.4B. Xcout tracks 25 named people at Paychex, including John Gibson Jr. (President, Chief Executive Officer & Director). Xcout recorded 471 job postings from Paychex in the last 90 days, naming tools such as Salesforce, GitHub, HubSpot.

Industry
HR Tech
Headquarters
Rochester, United States
Market cap
$39.4B
Employees
17,600
Ticker
PAYX
Founded
1971
Founder
Tom Golisano
Job postings recorded (90 days)
471
Xcout AI Rank
29/100
Xcout Green Rank
0/100

Paychex leadership

  • John Gibson Jr.President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
  • Robert L. SchraderSenior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  • Ryan Norman BergstromChief Product & Technology Officer
  • Bradley J. SchaufenbuelVice President & Chief Information Security Officer
  • Katy BunnChief Marketing Officer
  • Mason ArgiropoulosChief Human Resources Officer

19 more named people on record for Paychex, with roles, board committees and tenure — see the full roster →

Hiring at Paychex

Xcout recorded 471 job postings from Paychex in the last 90 days, from a hiring record Xcout has kept since June 2026.

Tools named in Paychex's job postings

SalesforceGitHubHubSpotCircleCIADPAlteryxDatabricksDatadog

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Hiring vs the trend

Lagging in AI hiring

Based on 108 job postings in the last 8 weeks (24 Aug – 18 Oct 2026), compared with 265 enterprise industrials companies.

This describes a hiring pattern — how often Paychex’s job postings ask for AI skills, and how that changed against the previous 8 weeks, ranked among its peers. It says nothing about the company’s products or performance.

Signed-in members see the AI-skill share and its change with peer percentiles, role mix, posting momentum and advertised US pay against the market.

Tech stack

AWSAzurePythonGraphQLReactSnowflakeTerraformAnsibleGCPHadoopSpark

Paychex competitors

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Paycom Software, Inc.PAYC · HR TechOklahoma City, United States
74% matchPublic

Paycom Software, Inc., established in 1998 and headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, provides a comprehensive, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution is specifically tailored for small to mid-sized businesses across the United States. It equips organizations with the essential functionality and analytical insights needed to oversee the complete employee journey, from the initial hiring process through to retirement. The robust HCM suite encompasses a wide array of applications across several critical HR domains. For talent acquisition and onboarding, it offers tools such as applicant tracking, candidate management, background checks, seamless onboarding processes, E-Verify compliance, and tax credit services. Time and labor management capabilities include precise time and attendance tracking, flexible scheduling with exchange options, efficient time-off request management, labor allocation, detailed reporting (including push reports), and advanced location-based features like geofencing, geotracking, and their proprietary Microfence Bluetooth technology. Payroll processing is streamlined through applications for improved employee transaction interfaces, comprehensive payroll and tax administration, direct payment options (Paycom Pay), expense management, mileage tracking (with fixed and variable rates), garnishment management, and GL concierge services. Talent development and performance management are supported by employee self-service portals, compensation budgeting, performance review systems, position management, Paycom learning modules, content subscriptions, and "my analytics" for predictive employment reporting. Furthermore, the platform integrates various other crucial functions. These include "Manager On-the-Go" for supervisors to approve time-off and expenses remotely, "Ask Here" for direct employee-to-HR communication, direct data exchange capabilities, and tools for document management and checklists. It also addresses compliance and benefits administration with features for government regulations, benefits enrollment (including carrier integration), COBRA administration, personnel action and performance discussion forms, surveys, and Affordable Care Act applications. A notable offering is "Clue," which provides a secure system for collecting, tracking, and managing employee vaccination and testing data.

Market cap$11.8B
Employees5,770
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  • Weekly hiring history and the mix of roles behind it
  • 1 corporate event with sources — deals, leadership changes, layoffs
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