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Paycom Software, Inc. PAYC

14 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$2.1B
▲ 8.9% YoY
$453.4M
▼ 9.7% YoY
$408.0M
▲ 19.6% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Paycom Software, Inc. provides a cloud-based human capital management solution delivered as software-as-a-service. The solution is based on a core system of record maintained in a single database for all HCM functions, including payroll, talent acquisition, talent management, human resources management, and time and labor management applications. The company has approximately 39,200 clients, or approximately 20,300 clients based on parent company grouping. The company stored data for over 7.4 million persons employed by its clients during the year ended December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2025, the company employed 5,770 people, substantially all of whom were full-time employees. The company operates in a single operating segment and a single reporting segment. Paycom was founded in 1998 and became a publicly traded company through its initial public offering in 2014.

Written from the business description in Paycom Software, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 2.1B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 14-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 2.1 · Net income 0.5
1B2B
201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
+14.3%
+19.5%
+24.8%
+17.2%
+25.9%
+36.0%
+18.6%
+26.9%
+36.5%
+63.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +19.5% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +25.9%, earnings per share at +26.9%.

The share count fell from 0.06B to 0.05B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

22 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 27.6% · Net 22.1%
10%20%30%
201220182025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 27.4%
20%40%
201220182025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 27 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 410.3M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 408.0
150M300M
201220182025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 84.8 · Net buybacks 325.5
150M300MDividendsNet buybacks
20162017201820202022202320242025

USD 84.8M in dividends and USD 325.5M in buybacks — 90% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 7.6B
EquityUSD 1.7B
CashUSD 370.0M
Current ratio1.09×

Equity funds 23% of total assets.

The 14-year record

14 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
PAYC, 14-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012
Revenue $B2.11.91.71.41.10.80.70.60.40.30.20.20.10.1
Operating income $B0.60.60.50.40.30.20.20.20.10.10.00.00.0◌
EBITDA $B0.70.80.60.50.30.20.30.20.10.10.00.00.0◌
Income tax $B0.20.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Net income $B0.50.50.30.30.20.10.20.10.10.10.00.00.0−0.0
Free cash flow $B0.40.30.30.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.00.0−0.00.0
EPS, diluted $8.088.925.884.843.372.463.092.342.101.190.360.110.01−0.01
Dividend / sh $0.380.380.38◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout %191719———————————
ROE %27.434.927.427.125.324.341.944.550.746.324.314.38.1−4.1
Shares out B0.050.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.050.05◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 58 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 14 of the 14 fiscal years we could check. 12 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2013. Five checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2012. Five checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2012.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Prepackaged Software
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2012

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