Paylocity

Paylocity is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) and payroll software provider serving small and mid-sized US employers with payroll, benefits administration, talent management, time and labor tracking, and workforce analytics. The platform powers HR back-office operations along with employee self-service tools. The Paylocity API uses OAuth 2.0 client credentials over api.paylocity.com to expose employee, payroll, deduction, earning, and onboarding data for partner integrations and customer automations.

Paylocity publishes 11 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Background Check API, Company API, Deductions API, and 8 more. Tagged areas include Human Resources, Payroll, HCM, Benefits, and Workforce Management.

The Paylocity catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Paylocity’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, pricing, signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 11 more developer resources.

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31.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessSelf serve

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Human Resources Payroll HCM Benefits Workforce Management Time Tracking Employee Benefits

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Human Capital Management

BC-300

Background CheckDeductionsEarningsEmployeesLMSPayroll

POST /apihub/learningmanagementsystem/v1/companies/{companyId}/contents POST /payentry/v2/payentryimport GET /apihub/payrollhistory/v1/companies/{companyId}/employees/{employeeId}/paystatements POST /api/v2/companies/{companyId}/employees

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 31.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Employment & Payroll regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 6.6 — up to +18.7 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 28.6 — up to +14.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 42.9 — up to +14.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
HR and Payroll	mixed	35.6	-	-
HCM and Payroll Marketplaces (ADP, Workday, UKG, Paylocity)	mixed	35.6	-	-
APIs.guru OpenAPI Directory (API definition directory)	mixed	35.6	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 11

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Paylocity Integrations REST API

REST API for managing employees, demographics, status, pay rates, direct deposit, deductions, earnings, taxes, custom fields, company codes, and onboarding via the Paylocity Int...

Paylocity Background Check API

The Background Check API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for background check.

Paylocity Company API

The Company API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for company.

Paylocity Deductions API

The Deductions API from Paylocity — 1 operation(s) for deductions.

Paylocity Earnings API

The Earnings API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for earnings.

Paylocity Employees API

The Employees API from Paylocity — 3 operation(s) for employees.

Paylocity LMS API

The LMS API from Paylocity — 1 operation(s) for lms.

Paylocity Payroll API

The Payroll API from Paylocity — 3 operation(s) for payroll.

Paylocity Scheduling API

The Scheduling API from Paylocity — 3 operation(s) for scheduling.

Paylocity Taxes API

The Taxes API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for taxes.

Paylocity Time API

The Time API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for time.

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Open Collections 11

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check Company API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check Deductions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check Earnings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check Employees API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check LMS API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check Payroll API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check Scheduling API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check Taxes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST Background Check Time API

OPEN COLLECTION

Paylocity Integrations REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Paylocity MCP Server

Remote MCP server at developer.paylocity.com over HTTP; 5 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Paylocity API Rules

42 rules · 40 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Paylocity Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Paylocity Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Paylocity Vulnerability Disclosure

Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Paylocity Scopes

1 scope · clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Paylocity Agentic Access

29 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Signup

Signup

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: paylocity
name: Paylocity
description: Paylocity is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) and payroll software provider serving small and mid-sized
  US employers with payroll, benefits administration, talent management, time and labor tracking, and workforce analytics.
  The platform powers HR back-office operations along with employee self-service tools. The Paylocity API uses OAuth 2.0 client
  credentials over api.paylocity.com to expose employee, payroll, deduction, earning, and onboarding data for partner integrations
  and customer automations.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/paylocity.png
x-docs-platform: readme
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Human Resources
- Payroll
- HCM
- Benefits
- Workforce Management
- Time Tracking
- Employee Benefits
tags_raw:
- HR
- Payroll
- HCM
- Benefits
- Workforce Management
- Time Tracking
- Employee Benefits
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/paylocity/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: paylocity:rest-api
  name: Paylocity Integrations REST API
  description: REST API for managing employees, demographics, status, pay rates, direct deposit, deductions, earnings, taxes,
    custom fields, company codes, and onboarding via the Paylocity Integrations platform. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0 client
    credentials issued by the Paylocity Identity Provider; tokens expire after one hour.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Human Resources
  - Payroll
  - Employees
  - Deductions
  - Earnings
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - HR
  - Payroll
  - Employees
  - Deductions
  - Earnings
  - OAuth 2.0
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/authentication
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://apisandbox.paylocity.com
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-background-check-api
  name: Paylocity Background Check API
  description: The Background Check API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for background check.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Background Checks
  tags_raw:
  - Background Check
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-background-check-api-openapi.yml
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-company-api
  name: Paylocity Company API
  description: The Company API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for company.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Company
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-company-api-openapi.yml
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-deductions-api
  name: Paylocity Deductions API
  description: The Deductions API from Paylocity — 1 operation(s) for deductions.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Deductions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-deductions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-earnings-api
  name: Paylocity Earnings API
  description: The Earnings API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for earnings.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Earnings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-earnings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-employees-api
  name: Paylocity Employees API
  description: The Employees API from Paylocity — 3 operation(s) for employees.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Employees
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-employees-api-openapi.yml
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-lms-api
  name: Paylocity LMS API
  description: The LMS API from Paylocity — 1 operation(s) for lms.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - LMS
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-lms-api-openapi.yml
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-payroll-api
  name: Paylocity Payroll API
  description: The Payroll API from Paylocity — 3 operation(s) for payroll.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Payroll
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-payroll-api-openapi.yml
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-scheduling-api
  name: Paylocity Scheduling API
  description: The Scheduling API from Paylocity — 3 operation(s) for scheduling.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Scheduling
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-scheduling-api-openapi.yml
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-taxes-api
  name: Paylocity Taxes API
  description: The Taxes API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for taxes.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Tax
  tags_raw:
  - Taxes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-taxes-api-openapi.yml
- aid: paylocity:paylocity-time-api
  name: Paylocity Time API
  description: The Time API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for time.
  humanURL: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com/api
  tags:
  - Time
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paylocity-time-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/paylocity-capability-edges.yml
  name: Paylocity Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/paylocity-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/paylocity-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/paylocity-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/paylocity-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/paylocity-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Paylocity
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paylocity
- type: Website
  url: https://www.paylocity.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.paylocity.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/docs/getting-started
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/api-overview
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.paylocity.com/our-products/pricing/
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.paylocity.com/request-a-demo/
- type: Login
  url: https://access.paylocity.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.paylocity.com/support/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.paylocity.com/resources/
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://developer.paylocity.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Paylocity API — frequently asked questions

Does Paylocity have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 11 APIs from Paylocity, including Paylocity Integrations REST API, Paylocity Background Check API and Paylocity Company API, and 8 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Paylocity API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 10 OpenAPI specifications for Paylocity, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Paylocity API?

Paylocity documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Paylocity Authentication.

Does Paylocity have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Paylocity: Remote MCP server at developer.paylocity.com over HTTP; 5 tools listed.

Is the Paylocity API ready for AI agents?

Paylocity has a Kin Score of 31.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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