Paychex reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(5,991 total reviews)
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John Gibson

47% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Paychex has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 5,991 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Feb 22, 2017

I would give them half a star if I could.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

None. This USED to be a good company to work for. It's not anymore. Paychex doesn't care about their employees at all. My particular office has had AT LEAST 14 (that I can think of off the top of my head) Payroll Specialists quit in the last 6 months and we've had 2 supervisors step down. Work load continues to go up with no match in pay. Clients are becoming increasingly nasty, and some of that has to do with constant employee churn. Those of us still working there are expected to put up with the abuse with a smile.

Cons

Everything. Don't work for Paychex. It's not worth it. You will be over worked and under paid. You will be verbally abused by clients while managers act like you could have done something different to have had the call go differently.

2.0
Feb 17, 2017

Core Payroll sale represention

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great entry-level sales training program, expense allotment, prospect lists, great implementation team.

Cons

no base salary increase, constant management turnover, poor mileage reimbursement, corporate policies enforced by local management only when convenient, territory restrictions, poor service structure, billing and service disconnect.

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Paychex Response
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Thank you for bringing your concerns to our attention. We would like to learn more so we can look into the issues you mentioned. Would you be willing to discuss further. If so, you can email Jody Stolt, Director of National Talent Acquisition at jstolt@paychex.com.
2.0
Jan 19, 2017

Heed the warnings on Glassdoor.com

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Pros

Occasional lunches and casual days; decent benefits; the overworked mentors are very helpful as are most of the supervisors and coworkers; the very likable and personable senior managers at the location; if you want to do the job, you will learn how to enter and process payrolls.

Cons

Lower pay than industry standard. Not being able to take time off during busy times of year. Being placed into a training program that is presented as superior, but only prepares you for the most basic of duties. Before training is even complete, being given too many clients at once who are desperate for assistance with questions you don't know how to answer because they haven't had a payroll specialist in months and have been neglected (but that you don't know how to help because all you were taught was how to enter payroll). Lack of an attendance policy resulting in many team members calling in several times a month, resulting in extra work for you EVERY SINGLE DAY. Not long after training (and way before you have a foothold with your own workload), being thrown into the telephone queue without even being told so you can help everyone else's clients. Having to apologize to aforementioned clients because you're (A) their third specialist in the past six months due to high turnover or (B) the client of another staff member who won't call them back, who has spoken with a specific supervisor (The only one I ever had a complaint about, and I had several in the few months I was there) who also won't call them back although they've been "researching" a complicated issue for six months.

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