Paylocity Holding Corporation (PCTY)
Payroll and HR software maker, all U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026, filed August 5, 2026. Ranked 62 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
6,900
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%
Paylocity’s approximately 6,900 employees, substantially all in the United States, 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
6,900 employees as of June 30, 2026 (stated). Substantially all employees are in the United States, by the filing; recorded as 1.
The filing: “As of June 30, 2026, our workforce consisted of approximately 6,900 employees, substantially all of which were located in the United States and employed on a full-time basis.”
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 the operations and sales teams around it, software publishing; no count by kind of work. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 6,900 employees, substantially all in the United States and full-time; a talent anywhere approach to recruiting; no counts by function or union.
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
39 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 39 times as its product: Ignite AI, platform-wide AI with agents embedded in workflows, and the Ignite AI Hub for managing and measuring AI across a client organization.
- “Our unified, easy-to-use platform helps businesses streamline HR, finance, and IT operations, manage spend and talent, and build culture and connection with artificial intelligence ("AI") embedded directly into everyday workflows to save time, reduce manual effort, and support better decision-making.”
- “Ignite AI, our platform-wide AI with agents, is embedded throughout our platform bringing data, insights, and automation into moments where decisions are made and work gets done.”
- “We also offer the Ignite AI Hub, a centralized dashboard for managing and measuring AI across the organization where leaders can measure business impact and productivity gain, monitor adoptions across teams, control which agents are active and identify new opportunities for automation.”
- “It provides the visibility and control organizations need to confidently deploy AI while keeping people at the center of decision-making.”
- “We continue to invest in our platform, including AI, automation, analytics, and mobile capabilities, to enhance the functionality and efficiency of our solutions.”
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 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20223median 0
- Fiscal 20236median 1
- Fiscal 202412median 4
- Fiscal 202518median 10
- Fiscal 202639
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 6,900 | 2026-08-05 | 10-K |
| 2025-06-30 | 6,700 | 2025-08-06 | 10-K |
| 2024-06-30 | 6,400 | 2024-08-02 | 10-K |
| 2023-06-30 | 6,100 | 2023-08-04 | 10-K |
| 2022-06-30 | 5,300 | 2022-08-05 | 10-K |
| 2021-06-30 | 4,150 | 2021-08-06 | 10-K |
| 2020-06-30 | 3,600 | 2020-08-07 | 10-K |
| 2019-06-30 | 3,050 | 2019-08-09 | 10-K |
| 2018-06-30 | 2,600 | 2018-08-10 | 10-K |
| 2017-06-30 | 2,115 | 2017-08-11 | 10-K |
| 2016-06-30 | 1,800 | 2016-08-12 | 10-K |
| 2015-06-30 | 1,320 | 2015-08-14 | 10-K |
| 2014-06-30 | 968 | 2014-08-22 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 from the filing’s substantially all.
- No count by kind of work; one software pattern by description.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001591698-26-000069, 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 Paylocity Holding Corporation'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 Paylocity Holding Corporation'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 Paylocity Holding Corporation employ?
- 6,900 as of June 30, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Paylocity Holding Corporation'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 Paylocity Holding Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 39 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2026 name it in 1, 3, 6, 12, 18 and 39 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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