# Paylocity

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/paylocity/  
**Website:** https://www.paylocity.com  
**APIs profiled:** 11

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.

## Kin Score — 28.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 54.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 25.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 6.6 |
| Access Clarity | 6.6 |

## Agent readiness — 26.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (11)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Paylocity Agentic Access** — 29 operations · 13 acting

## Security (3)

- **Paylocity Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Paylocity Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Paylocity Vulnerability Disclosure** — Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

## Tags

HR, Payroll, HCM, Benefits, Workforce Management, Time Tracking

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/paylocity/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.