Access company and employee data from the Paylocity API
domain: developer.paylocity.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Apply to become a Paylocity API partner through the developer portal; production API access requires approval and partner certification — this is not self-serve.
Once approved, authenticate using the OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow to obtain a Bearer access token.
Call GET /v2/companies/{companyId}/employees to retrieve all employees for a company.
Use GET /v2/companies/{companyId}/employees/{employeeId} to retrieve a specific employee's full record.
Access payroll and time data via additional endpoints under the same /v2/companies/{companyId}/ path hierarchy.
Known gotchas
Paylocity requires a formal partner certification process and at least a minimum number of mutual customers before granting production API access — plan for a multi-week onboarding process.
The companyId in the API corresponds to Paylocity's internal company identifier, which must be obtained through the API or provided by the mutual customer — it is not the employer EIN.
API access scopes are defined during partner onboarding; requesting data outside the approved scope returns authorization errors even with a valid token.
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