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      Paychex

      Engaged Employer

      Paychex reviews

      3.1

      48% would recommend to a friend

      (3,873 total reviews)
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      John Gibson

      49% approve of CEO

      47% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Compensation and benefits

      2.8

      Senior management

      Paychex has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,873 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Paychex employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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      Reviews by job title

      4K reviews
      2.0
      Apr 7, 2014

      Payroll

      Payroll specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Generous time-off policy given. Good collaborative culture. Everyone helps everyone else.

      Cons

      Career development and advancement opportunities are based on favoritism as opposed to proven accomplishments and review standards. Besides having experienced it first hand, I had seen many hard working peers looked over. Pay is very poor and often times subjective.

      3.0
      Apr 7, 2014

      just okay

      Sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      nice people, liked accounting community,

      Cons

      lots of cold calling, territory changes, so much competion

      4.0
      Mar 28, 2014

      Enjoyable Work Environment... with Major Employee Retention Flaw

      Risk management departments
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      *Great co-workers *Opportunity to grow within company, if you are willing to put in the time and bounce around departments *Excellent Training Program *Tuition Reimbursement and culture to push employees to use it - they will work with you on your hours and availability based on class schedule! *Excellent Benefits package (outside of pay) *Again, wonderful co-workers - cannot say that enough... they really made coming to work easy Even though I left because of the cons below, Paychex is still a good company to start your working career with. I would not have my current position without them. However, with that said - I might have stayed if they fixed some of the cons below:

      Cons

      *Outdated and clunky processes, systems and tools *Absent SLT with no downward flow/visibility of upcoming strategic plans and/or initiatives *Extremely low pay compared to industry standards *Direct management does not aid with career path and development plan within company *Stock grants, although a nice idea - are worthless as you can only cash in on the difference made in the stocks uptick *In a world where mobility is prevalent and required, Paychex still has desktop computing for a majority of their workforce - laptops would have been nice to aid in work-life-balance - especially during "Year End Mode" at Christmas and New Years

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