Paylocity reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(3,221 total reviews)
avatar

Toby Williams

48% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Paylocity has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,221 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Paylocity employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

3K reviews
3.0
Oct 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The casual work environment and offsite meetings are pretty cool. And it's Monday thru Friday, no weekends!

Cons

It is an extremely stressful job and there is not a lot of support. The training is a basic overview of the system and the actual payroll questions are not easy. I feel like there should more in depth training or they should look for people that have a degree or extensive experience in payroll. We're dealing with people's payrolls and most of the time we're just guessing as to what should be done. You can ask 3 different people the same question and get 3 different answers. The majority of the clients were over promised during the sales step and there are many problems coming out of implementation. The account managers pay for those two things and clients love to escalate all the way up to the Steve's. That is not a good feeling when you are doing everything you can to help. You have an assigned client list and one account manager can have over 200 clients. The majority of clients prefer email, but you are required to stay available in the phone queue 80% of the time. it is impossible to reach that number while trying to keep up with the emails. Most items require research and that cannot be done when you are constantly being interrupted by the phone. Project time is assigned, but usually for 30 minutes at a time. That is not enough time when you have an inbox full of issues to be resolved. It's just a matter of time before the escalations start coming in. You leave every day feeling defeated and stupid.

avatar
Paylocity Response
11y
First, thank you for the feedback. We constantly work to improve our culture and our employee experience. We have added an additional 3 weeks of training providing our employees around 9 weeks of initial training to learn not only the products but to spend time shadowing our more tenured employees. We actually went into this year-end overstaffed, and responded to our employee needs by increasing our headcount all around! Paylocity and Client Services are not for everyone. The work is demanding and our clients have very high expectations! We work hard to paint a very realistic picture of the job during our phone screen and your interview is with multiple managers and members of the team to help answer any questions. We are committed to doing everything possible to continue to make Paylocity the great place it is!!
5.0
Oct 8, 2014

Awesome culture and great work/life balance!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I came to Paylocity after hearing about the awesome culture, great opportunities, and the truly talented people that we were working here. Paylocity is truly committed to employee satisfaction and maintaining a work/life balance. The motto here has always been "happy employees, mean happy clients" and it is absolutely true. Promoting employees from within and creating career advancement opportunities is a standard here. If you are contributing value to your team; that will never go unnoticed and you are truly valued as an employee. Very casual office environment with game rooms, a market on-site, casual dress, and really good food trucks that come by almost every day. It's definitely been the best career jump that I could have made, and it's no wonder why it is ranked one of the top places to work in Illinois year after year.

Cons

Location can be an issue for some people since it is located in the suburbs. Depending on the department that you are in, there are work from home options a few days per week. I live in the suburbs, so I like the location! We are a growth company and finding enough talent to support all of the awesome product lines that our Product Development teams are developing.

Viewing 3139 - 3141 of 3,221 Reviews

Glassdoor has 3,277 Paylocity reviews submitted anonymously by Paylocity employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Paylocity is right for you.