Soul Sucking, Stay Away! - Senior Payroll Specialist Paychex Employee Review

1.0
7 Jun 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It's a paycheck. Some good benefits.

Cons

If you're good at your job, you get to do the job of all the slackers too and scolded if you cannot juggle everything. The work load is impossible to keep up with and the surveys are designed for you to fail. You could have multiple perfect 10 surveys but one or two 5-8s will negate all of it. (Since when did a 5=-100 and a 7=0?!) Bad behavior is rewarded and hard workers are punished for it. No communication or accountability between departments so customers are passed around. Pay is sub par for the amount of responsibilities and stress you will undertake. The Paychex motto should be "Don't worry, it'll get better.....someday."

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Cons

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1.0
1 Jun 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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