PCTY vs PAYC Comparison

Paylocity is a cloud-based human capital management provider offering payroll, compliance, and human resources management solutions. With the addition of expense and IT management modules, Paylocity unifies back-office operations spanning HR, finance, and IT on a single platform and bills customers on a subscription basis. The firm's customer base skews toward the midmarket and is primarily based in the US. As of fiscal 2025, Paylocity has nearly 42,000 customers.

Paycom is a cloud-based human capital management provider offering payroll, compliance, and human resources management solutions. The firm's solutions are available on a unified, modular platform, and customers are billed for access on a subscription basis. Paycom's customer base skews toward the midmarket and is primarily based in North America. As of 2025, the firm manages records for 7.4 million employees across more than 20,000 clients on a parent-company-group basis.