Great place to get your start, but may not be the best place to stay. - Senior Payroll Specialist Paychex Employee Review

3.0
24 Aug 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Paychex hires great people who are great to work with. Medical is still 100%, not a 90/10 or 80/20 plan. Good training programs for most positions. Decent amount of vacation/sick/float days usable in year one.

Cons

No cost of living adjustments. Very low merit raises. Revolving door due to the fact that people can't afford to work at Paychex and live in the Seattle area. Always short staffed and over loaded. People are promoted, but end up doing both their old and new positions work because new people can't be kept on long enough to take the workload from the old position. Those that don't leave because of money leave because of stress and no appreciation.

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Pros

- Sales training - Team support - Goal oriented work

Cons

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1.0
1 June 2026
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Pros

Nothing is good about working here.

Cons

Nobody is ever held accountable. Pay is awful. Benefits were all moved out of state, so all providers in the area are all out of network. Jobs are being moved to India. The list goes on. Sales is the absolute favorite department in the entire company. Nothing sales can do is ever wrong, even when they give false information to clients and then the support team has to deal with the fallback. Don't get me started on Payroll.... the entire department has gone to the wind. I honestly don't know how this company ever did good with payroll services. The #1 complaint i got from every single client I interacted with was they could never get ahold of their Payroll Specialist. The company's response to this was to start making other departments learn payroll duties. This year they moved insurance benefits to a plan out of Arkansas, which made every provider I was already seeing become out of network. I had my first major medical scare of my adulthood and ended up paying a few grand out of pocket because U of R was out of network. Promotions are non existent. They make you apply and interview for any role you want to move into. There is nothing good about working here, and i would advise anyone to stay away from them.

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