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Paychex: what they publish

paychex.com · HR and payroll · checked 2026-10-18

22/100FBand F

Rank 28 of 74 in HR and payroll, where the median is 13.

Public transparency score, not a product or security rating. Latest check: 2026-10-18. How the score works.

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Overview

2 days since the newest dated result, 2 since the oldest. 12 of 12 criteria have a measured result in the last 30 days. Failed checks and undated results are excluded.

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Paychex

paychex.com · HR and payroll

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D
  5. E
  6. F
F 22of 100 Rank 28 of 74

Published commitments2 of 9 found

Measured behaviour1 of 3 found

Checked 2026-10-18. Every line links the page we found it on. A cross means we found nothing at the addresses we checked, not that the vendor has no such document. A transparency score, not a product rating.

Downloads include all checks, source URLs, dates and the snapshot ID for your procurement file. We do not issue badges.

The label is the whole measurement in one object: every criterion with its weight, the band, and the date. Public transparency score, not a product or security rating.

Every line in it links the page we found the result on, or lists the addresses we checked. A cross means we found nothing there, not that Paychex has no such document.

Where Paychex sits in HR and payroll

  1. A0 0%
  2. B2 3%
  3. C2 3%
  4. D4 5%
  5. E15 20%
  6. F51 69%
74 vendors with a score; 6 more without a score because we could measure too little. Bands have fixed thresholds, see how the score works.

The band of Paychex is marked. Vendors without a score are the ones where we could measure too few criteria to rank them – a gap on our side, counted separately.

What Paychex states

The exact figures and names we read off the pages linked below, with the sentence they stand in. This is what they publish, not what we verified about their systems.

Gaps, heaviest first

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Data processing agreement (DPA)

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No data processing agreement found.

Checked 8 addresses on 2026-10-18.

Show the 8 addresses we checked
  1. https://paychex.com/legal/dpa – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  2. https://paychex.com/dpa – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  3. https://paychex.com/legal/data-processing-agreement – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  4. https://paychex.com/data-processing-agreement – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  5. https://paychex.com/legal/data-processing-addendum – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  6. https://paychex.com/legal/gdpr – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  7. https://paychex.com/trust/dpa – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  8. https://paychex.com/privacy/dpa – reached, no match (HTTP 404)

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Across the market: Data processing agreement in HR and payroll: 7 of 75 companies

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Subprocessors: the published list

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No subprocessor list found.

Checked 7 addresses on 2026-10-18.

Show the 7 addresses we checked
  1. https://paychex.com/legal/subprocessors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  2. https://paychex.com/subprocessors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  3. https://paychex.com/sub-processors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  4. https://paychex.com/legal/sub-processors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  5. https://paychex.com/trust/subprocessors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  6. https://paychex.com/privacy/subprocessors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  7. https://paychex.com/legal/subprocessor-list – reached, no match (HTTP 404)

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Across the market: Subprocessor list in HR and payroll: 7 of 75 companies

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Data location: where they say data is hosted

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No statement about data location found.

Checked 7 addresses on 2026-10-18.

Show the 7 addresses we checked
  1. https://paychex.com/security – reached, no match (HTTP 200)
  2. https://paychex.com/trust – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  3. https://paychex.com/legal/privacy – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  4. https://paychex.com/privacy – reached, no match (HTTP 200)
  5. https://paychex.com/privacy-policy – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  6. https://paychex.com/compliance – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  7. https://paychex.com/legal/privacy-policy – reached, no match (HTTP 404)

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Across the market: Data location stated in HR and payroll: 19 of 74 companies

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Status page with incident history

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No public status page found.

Checked 3 addresses on 2026-10-18.

Show the 3 addresses we checked
  1. https://status.paychex.com/ – The name "status.paychex.com" could not be resolved.
  2. https://paychex.com/status – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  3. https://paychex.com.statuspage.io/ – Could not be fetched: fetch failed.

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Across the market: Status page with history in HR and payroll: 15 of 79 companies

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Third-party requests seen on the first load, before any interaction.

Checked 1 address on 2026-10-18.

Show the 1 address we checked
  1. https://paychex.com/ – third-party requests before any interaction: 15559626.fls.doubleclick.net, 715-yzo-232.mktoresp.com, abrtp1-cdn.marketo.com, abrtp1.marketo.com, ad.doubleclick.net, adservice.google.com, alb.reddit.com, analytics.twitter.com, app-ab26.marketo.com, app.qualified.com, bat.bing.com, bat.bing.net, browser.sentry-cdn.com, cdn.bizible.com, cdn.bizibly.com, cdn.jsdelivr.net, cdn.optimizely.com, cdn3.optimizely.com, cnv.event.prod.bidr.io, connect.facebook.net, distillery.wistia.com, embed-cloudfront.wistia.com, fast.wistia.com, googleads.g.doubleclick.net, insight.adsrvr.org, invalid, js.adsrvr.org, js.qualified.com, logx.optimizely.com, match.adsrvr.org, munchkin.marketo.net, ob.herbstarsbuilding.com, obs.herbstarsbuilding.com, paychex-ctvadds-poc-dot-paychexdotcom.uc.r.appspot.com, pipedream.wistia.com, pixel-config.reddit.com, prompts.maze.co, px.ads.linkedin.com, region1.analytics.google.com, rtp-static.marketo.com, scripts.clarity.ms, snap.licdn.com, snippet.maze.co, static.ads-twitter.com, static.searchstax.com, stats.g.doubleclick.net, t.co, tags.srv.stackadapt.com, tvspix.com, u.clarity.ms, us-central1-paychexdotcom.cloudfunctions.net, www.clarity.ms, www.facebook.com, www.g2.com, www.google.com, www.google.de, www.googleadservices.com, www.googletagmanager.com, www.redditstatic.com

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Across the market: No third-party tracking before consent in HR and payroll: 4 of 79 companies

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Notice before subprocessors change

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No commitment to give notice before subprocessors change found.

Checked 8 addresses on 2026-10-18.

Show the 8 addresses we checked
  1. https://paychex.com/legal/subprocessors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  2. https://paychex.com/subprocessors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  3. https://paychex.com/sub-processors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  4. https://paychex.com/legal/dpa – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  5. https://paychex.com/dpa – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  6. https://paychex.com/legal/data-processing-agreement – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  7. https://paychex.com/trust/subprocessors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  8. https://paychex.com/legal/sub-processors – reached, no match (HTTP 404)

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Across the market: Notice before subprocessors change in HR and payroll: 3 of 74 companies

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Uptime SLA with a figure

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No uptime figure found.

Checked 6 addresses on 2026-10-18.

Show the 6 addresses we checked
  1. https://paychex.com/legal/sla – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  2. https://paychex.com/sla – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  3. https://paychex.com/legal/service-level-agreement – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  4. https://paychex.com/trust/sla – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  5. https://paychex.com/uptime – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  6. https://paychex.com/legal/uptime-sla – reached, no match (HTTP 404)

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Across the market: Uptime SLA with a figure in HR and payroll: 2 of 73 companies

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security.txt (RFC 9116)

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No security.txt found.

Checked 1 address on 2026-10-18.

Show the 1 address we checked
  1. https://paychex.com/.well-known/security.txt – reached, no match (HTTP 404)

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Across the market: security.txt (RFC 9116) in HR and payroll: 7 of 72 companies

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Named privacy contact (DPO or privacy address)

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No named privacy contact found.

Checked 7 addresses on 2026-10-18.

Show the 7 addresses we checked
  1. https://paychex.com/legal/privacy – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  2. https://paychex.com/privacy – reached, no match (HTTP 200)
  3. https://paychex.com/privacy-policy – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  4. https://paychex.com/legal/privacy-policy – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  5. https://paychex.com/legal/privacy-notice – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  6. https://paychex.com/trust/privacy – reached, no match (HTTP 404)
  7. https://paychex.com/datenschutz – reached, no match (HTTP 404)

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Across the market: Named privacy contact in HR and payroll: 35 of 74 companies

Evidence

The full source lists sit behind these two groups, so that the answer above stays readable.

Published, with a source 3
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Public pricing with figures

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Actual numbers on a public page.

Source: https://www.paychex.com/payroll/compare-payroll-solutions · checked 2026-10-18

Across the market: Public pricing in HR and payroll: 22 of 73 companies

✓

HTTPS enforced with HSTS

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HTTP redirects to HTTPS and the HSTS header is set.

  • HSTS max-age 31536000 seconds (365 days).
    Show the exact wording

    max-age=31536000, max-age=300

    Read at https://paychex.com/

Source: https://paychex.com/ · checked 2026-10-18

Across the market: HTTPS enforced with HSTS in HR and payroll: 48 of 78 companies

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Certifications named (SOC 2, ISO 27001)

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SOC 2 or ISO 27001 named on a public page.

  • Named on that page HIPAA (not counted: the sentence does not carry it), ISO/IEC 27001 (unclear from the sentence), SOC 2 Type II (not counted: the sentence does not carry it). The sentence we kept does not carry this finding on its own, so it counts in no list and no figure.
    Show the 3 exact wordings

    In addition, employees recognize the importance of identifying protected information including: HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) PHI (Protected Health Information) NACHA (Na...

    Read at https://www.paychex.com/corporate/security

    ISO 27001 Certification ISO 27001 Certification Certificate number IS 801702 Information Security Safeguardin

    Read at https://www.paychex.com/corporate/security

    Privacy Policy Security Accreditation SOC Reports SOC Reports Paychex maintains SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 reports over various products and services.

    Read at https://www.paychex.com/corporate/security

Source: https://www.paychex.com/corporate/security · checked 2026-10-18

Across the market: Certifications named in HR and payroll: 23 of 78 companies

History

100 0 2026-10-11: 13 of 1002026-10-18: 22 of 100 2026-10-11 2026-10-18
Score over the last 2 runs we measured Paychex in: 13 (2026-10-11), 22 (2026-10-18).

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Paychex

3 found · 9 not found · 0 not measured across 12 public checks.

12 of 12 criteria have a measured result from the last 30 days. Oldest dated result: 2026-10-18.

Investigate 9 open evidence questions
  1. Data processing agreement

    Please share the current data processing agreement for the product and plan we are considering, including its annexes and signing process.

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  2. Subprocessor list

    Which subprocessors apply to our product, what does each process, and in which countries? Please share the current list.

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  3. Data location stated

    Which locations apply to our primary data, backups and support access? Which region can we select for this plan?

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  4. Status page with history

    Where can we review incident history for the service we will use, and how do we subscribe to incident updates?

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  5. Uptime SLA with a figure

    Which availability commitment applies to our plan? Please include the measurement window, exclusions and credit claim process.

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  6. No third-party tracking before consent

    Which third-party requests occur before a visitor makes a choice, and for what purpose? Please distinguish the public website from the product.

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  7. security.txt (RFC 9116)

    Where should we report a vulnerability, and what acknowledgement and follow-up process should we expect?

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  8. Notice before subprocessors change

    How will you notify us before a subprocessor changes, with how much notice, and what response options apply to our contract?

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  9. Named privacy contact

    Which privacy contact handles requests for our account, and what escalation path should we use?

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