What is Paycom?
Paycom is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software provider that helps organizations manage payroll and HR in one place. Built on a single database, Paycom automates the employee life cycle — from hiring to payroll to time and labor — while reducing the manual work created by disconnected tools.
Paycom at a glance
| Key Fact | Details |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1998 |
| Public company | Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: PAYC) |
| Clients | More than 39,000 clients |
| Global reach | Over 190 countries with Global HCM™ |
| Headquarters | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Paycom at a glance
| Key Fact | Details |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1998 |
| Public company | Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: PAYC) |
| Clients | More than 39,000 clients |
| Global reach | Over 190 countries with Global HCM™ |
| Headquarters | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
What does Paycom do?
Paycom provides an HCM software that connects payroll and HR processes through a single database. This design supports automation across core areas like talent acquisition, payroll, talent management, time and labor management and HR management.
What that looks like in practice
Hiring
Candidate and new-hire information populates systemwide to reduce reentry.
Payroll
Payroll self-starts using live employee data, identifies errors and guides employees to fix them before submission.
Time and labor
Approved time flows into payroll automatically to reduce manual entry.
Who is Paycom for?
Paycom supports organizations across company sizes, industries and roles — including HR, finance, IT decision-makers, executives and operational leaders.
Paycom is fit for organizations that need:
- payroll and HR data in one software to reduce manual work and improve accuracy
- support for complexity such as multistate operations, growth and increasing compliance needs
What makes Paycom different?
What makes Paycom different?
A single database built to support automation
Paycom’s single database is designed to reduce the work created by separate HR and payroll systems.
Why that matters:
- Multiple systems require duplicate data entry, increasing the chance of errors.
- Disconnected workflows can lead to rework after payroll runs when issues surface late.
- More systems can increase training and support overhead through added handoffs and logins.
Built and improved as one platform
Paycom’s growth is built on a single database and ongoing enhancements rather than separate, stitched-together systems.
What outcomes do organizations report?
90% less
labor needed to process payroll
85% reduction
in time spent correcting payroll errors
OVER 2,600
hours saved by HR and accounting annually
Total Economic Impact™ study conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Paycom, June 2023. Results are for a composite organization representative of interviewed clients.
Paycom by the numbers
OVER 39,000
clients
MORE THAN 190
countries with Global HCM™
OVER 25
years of innovation
Information current as of Dec. 31, 2025.
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn more about Paycom
Paycom is an HCM platform, with HR, time and labor, talent management and compliance built around payroll in the same database.
Paycom is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Paycom supports small, medium and enterprise-sized companies across the education, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, retail and transportation industries and more.
Paycom supports management of domestic and international workforces across over 190 countries with Global HCM (information current as of Dec. 31, 2025).