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Paychex competitors, on the record

The companies Paychex names as competitors in its annual reports, 2024 to 2026, and the companies that name Paychex, each with the sentence and the filing.

Who Paychex names

CompanyNamed in
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.2026

In its own words

  1. Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

    Word for word“Our Peer Group for fiscal 2026 is comprised of the following companies: Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (direct competitor) Global Payments, Inc. Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.” 10-K for 2026

Who names Paychex

Companies whose own annual reports name Paychex as a competitor.

  1. Barrett Business Services names it as “Paychex, Inc.” · 2025

    Word for word“BBSI is not aware of reliable statistics regarding the number of its competitors, but certain large, well-known companies typically compete with us in the same markets and have greater financial and marketing resources than we do, including Automatic Data Processing, Inc., ManpowerGroup, Inc., Kelly Services, Inc., Insperity, Inc., TriNet Group, Inc., Robert Half International Inc. and Paychex, Inc.” 10-K for 2025
  2. Insperity names it as “Paychex, Inc.” · 2025

    Word for word“Our largest national competitors include the PEO divisions of large business services companies such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc. and Paychex, Inc., and other national PEOs, such as TriNet Group, Inc, Vensure, and Rippling.” 10-K for 2025
  3. Paycom Software names it as “Paychex, Inc.” · 2025

    Word for word“We compete with companies such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Intuit, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Paychex, Inc., Paylocity Holding Corporation, SAP SE, ServiceNow, Inc., Ultimate Kronos Group, Workday, Inc., and other international, national, regional, and local providers.” 10-K for 2025
  4. Paylocity Holding names it as “Paychex, Inc.” · 2026

    Word for word“Our competitors vary for each of our solutions and primarily include payroll and HR service and software providers, such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Paychex, Inc., Paycom Software, Inc., Ultimate Kronos Group and other local and regional providers.” 10-K for 2026
  5. Trinet Group names it as “Paychex, Inc.” · 2025

    Word for word“Our PEO service competitors include large PEOs such as the TotalSource unit of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., the PEO operations of Paychex, Inc. and Insperity, Inc., as well as numerous specialized and smaller PEOs and similar HR service providers with PEO operations.” 10-K for 2025
  6. Ultimate Software · 2018

    Word for word“In our mid-market and strategic market, Ultimate's competitors include primarily payroll service providers, such as ADP, Paychex, Ceridian, Paycom and Paylocity.” 10-K for 2018

Read from Paychex’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-07-17. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.