Paychex is a national company with an organization built entirely around the personal relationships shared with businesses like yours. Paychex, Inc. is a recognized leader in the payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing industry, with a steadfast commitment to success and a record of achievement that continues a tradition of delivering excellence.
The company was founded in 1971 by B. Thomas Golisano with just $3,000 and a good idea to make payroll outsourcing easy and affordable for small businesses. From those early days with just one employee, Paychex now has more than 14,000 employees serving more than half a million small to medium sized businesses nationwide.
Paychex serves businesses in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The company supports approximately 670,000 payroll clients as of May 31, 2019, across more than 100 US locations, and pays one out of every 12 American private sector employees. Paychex offers an ever-growing variety of payroll and human resource products and services that help clients do what they do best run their business. With a wide range of services including payroll processing, retirement services, insurance, and a fully outsourced human resource solution Paychex customizes its offering to the client's business, whether it is small or large, simple or complex.