Paycom Software, Inc. (PAYC)
Payroll and HR software maker, one pattern. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 61 of the 155 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
25%
End of 2028
69%
Employees, annual report
5,770
Leading staffing pattern
Software Publishers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now25%
- End of 202755%
- End of 202869%
- End of 203075%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 25%
- Becomes checking a model's work 58%
- Handed over with lighter checks 10%
Paycom’s 5,770 employees build, sell and support a cloud payroll and human capital software platform, read as one software pattern.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 25% now, 55% at the end of 2027, 69% at the end of 2028, 75% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 75% desk work, 23% people work and 2% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 25% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 58% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
5,770 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; its demographic table covers U.S.-based employees only.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed 5,770 people, substantially all of whom are full-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Software Publishers | 100% | By description (c): a cloud human capital management and payroll software platform with its sales force and service teams, recurring revenue 99%, software publishing; no count by function. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 5,770 employees, substantially all full-time, down from 7,306 a year earlier; an intensively trained sales force; 43.3% female among U.S. employees.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Software Publishers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Microsoft (MSFT, 223,000 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
- Oracle (ORCL, 141,000 employees)26% now, 69% by 2028
- Salesforce, Inc. (CRM, 83,334 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
- Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER, 34,000 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
- DoorDash, Inc. (DASH, 31,400 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
- Adobe Inc. (ADBE, 31,360 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
- ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW, 29,187 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
- Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS, 28,000 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
43 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 43 times: IWant, its AI engine giving employees access to their HR data by voice or text, and AI across the platform.
- “Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others, the following: the possibility of security vulnerabilities, cyber-attacks and network disruptions, including breaches of data security and privacy leaks, data loss, and business interruptions; changes in laws, government...”
- “Our industry-first AI engine, IWant, provides instant and accurate access to employee data without requiring the user to navigate or learn our software.”
- “For example, IWant provides employees access to their HR data easily through voice-to-text functionality or typing a question, and our AI engine immediately provides the answer or directs users to the appropriate location to interact with their information.”
- “We intend to continue extending the functionality and range of our solution in the future, and we are incorporating and leveraging AI and automation across our full solution.”
- “Enhancing the value of our comprehensive product suite is IWant, our industry-first command driven AI engine empowering users to navigate and access their information within our single database.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20212median 0
- Fiscal 20226median 0
- Fiscal 202316median 1
- Fiscal 202421median 4
- Fiscal 202543median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 5,770 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 7,306 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 7,308 | 2024-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,349 | 2023-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 5,385 | 2022-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,218 | 2021-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 3,765 | 2020-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 3,050 | 2019-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 2,548 | 2018-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,075 | 2017-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 1,461 | 2016-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 1,021 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The headcount series falls from 7,306 to 5,770 in a year; the filing’s human capital section does not say why.
- No count by function; one software pattern by description.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-059372, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Paycom Software, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 25% now and 69% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Paycom Software, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Paycom Software, Inc. employ?
- 5,770 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Paycom Software, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Software Publishers; by those patterns the work is about 75% desk work, 23% people work and 2% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Paycom Software, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 43 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 2, 6, 16, 21 and 43 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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