It's a job - learn what you can and bail. - Anonymous employee Paychex Employee Review

3.0
Aug 17, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

In field OPS you can gain valuable experience in payroll, payroll taxes, payroll software, and customer service. Paychex is a decent place to learn, just not a long term career move for most. Treat your stay as an extended internship and you'll be satisfied. Benefits are reasonable - insurance and retirement options are affordable. Time off is typical two weeks, but goes up after 5 years. Exempt employees get additional sick time for time served with company.

Cons

Pay is very low for the job market. Paychex apparently bases it's wage on the banking industry, when payroll specialists/customer service reps are essentially HR and Accounting consultants. The work doesn't match up to the work load - high turnover is the result. Semi-Annual Bonus is lame - not based on personal performance, but office performance. High turnover and undervalued employees results in poor customer feedback and inability to reach arbitrary corporate goals. Annual reviews / merit increases are minimal - typically 2 - 3 percent. Inadequately managed. Supervisors are expected to be full-on business managers, and actual managers want to delegate and "teach" the supervisors. Interviewing is arduous (often 3 weeks+ with 5+ meetings) and mgmt still hire poorly qualified or poorly motivated candidates. Likely typical large corporate complaints. If you're a "glass half full" person Paychex is probably a good fit. Otherwise, think twice before making the plunge.

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Pros

Nothing is good about working here.

Cons

Nobody is ever held accountable. Pay is awful. Benefits were all moved out of state, so all providers in the area are all out of network. Jobs are being moved to India. The list goes on. Sales is the absolute favorite department in the entire company. Nothing sales can do is ever wrong, even when they give false information to clients and then the support team has to deal with the fallback. Don't get me started on Payroll.... the entire department has gone to the wind. I honestly don't know how this company ever did good with payroll services. The #1 complaint i got from every single client I interacted with was they could never get ahold of their Payroll Specialist. The company's response to this was to start making other departments learn payroll duties. This year they moved insurance benefits to a plan out of Arkansas, which made every provider I was already seeing become out of network. I had my first major medical scare of my adulthood and ended up paying a few grand out of pocket because U of R was out of network. Promotions are non existent. They make you apply and interview for any role you want to move into. There is nothing good about working here, and i would advise anyone to stay away from them.

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