Paycor pricing and review: what you can and cannot find out before a demo

Paycor pricing at a glance

Published price

Quote onlypricing page, checked Oct 16, 2026

Current offer

50% off the first 6 monthsbase price not stated

Old list price

$99 + $5 per employeeper Fit Small Business, May 2026

Our scores

10/100 payroll, 23/100 HR15th of 15 in payroll

Paycor sells payroll, HR, time tracking, recruiting and benefits administration as one suite, priced by a sales rep after a demo. It says it serves "2.3 million users across all 50 states." Paycor once posted a starting price; today it posts only a discount. Because we score what a buyer can check, Paycor ranks last of 15 in our payroll scores, which says more about what it publishes than about how its software works. See how we score; we did not test Paycor.

What Paycor's pricing page says

When our research read paycor.com/pricing on October 16, 2026, it showed:

• No prices for any plan.
• A promo: "Get 50% off for the first 6 months." The page does not say what the 50% applies to.
• A sales line, 513-338-0399, and a pricing request form.

Fit Small Business (updated May 29, 2026) says Paycor used to publish "starting at $99 plus $5 per employee monthly" and is now custom-priced. That figure is historical and may not match a quote today.

There is one published price for payroll that runs on Paycor, sold by a different company. Deputy, the scheduling app, sells Deputy Payroll (by Paycor) at $49 a month plus $8 per user, but only with an annual Deputy Core or Pro plan (Deputy pricing, checked October 16, 2026).

What Paycor might cost for 5, 10 and 25 employees

Neither row below is a Paycor quote. The first uses the old list price Fit Small Business reports; the second uses Deputy's published price for its Paycor-powered payroll.

Deputy counts admins and managers as users, so the user count can exceed your employee count. Deputy's annual plans are paid upfront, with no refund if you cancel early and no downgrades or headcount reductions during the term; we did not check Deputy Payroll's own terms. For the field of published payroll prices, see what payroll services cost.

Before you take the 50% off offer

A discount with no base price cannot be compared. Ask the rep to put these in the order form:

1. The full monthly list price, base plus per-employee, that the 50% comes off.
2. Which modules the discount covers (payroll only, or HR, time and benefits too) and whether implementation is included.
3. The price in month 7, and any cap on increases at renewal.
4. The contract term, and whether leaving early means repaying the discount.
5. Per-form year-end fees, off-cycle run fees and amendment fees.

Then put the month-7 price next to published options. At 10 employees, OnPay is $109 a month and Gusto Plus is $80 + (10 × $12) = $200, both checked October 16, 2026 (OnPay review, Gusto pricing).

Tax filing: no published guarantee

On the pages we checked, Paycor publishes no tax filing guarantee terms and no statement of which states or local taxes it files, or whether it registers new state accounts for you. You cannot tell from Paycor's site who pays a penalty if a deposit is late.

Implementation, contract and leaving Paycor

None of these are published: contract length, implementation fees, renewal terms, how to cancel, or how long you keep access to W-2s and payroll reports afterward. Our research found no Paycor cancellation policy on its site.

• Implementation: Paycor's suite is sold with implementation help, but no fee is stated. Ask for it as a line item.
• Leaving: get the notice period, any early termination fee and a fixed period of record access written into the agreement.
• Mid-year switch: agree who files the current quarter's Form 941 and state wage reports and who issues the year's W-2s (2026 forms are due February 1, 2027). Give the next provider exact year-to-date totals so Social Security stops at the 2026 wage base of $184,500.

For pay dates by frequency, see 2026 pay schedules and pay dates.

Paycor support

Paycor lists phone lines and a Contact Support page. It does not publish support hours on the pages in our research. Ask whether you get a named contact after implementation, and what hours apply on a payroll deadline.

Paycor reviews

Paycor has 4.0 out of 5 from 2,018 reviews on G2 and 1.6 out of 5 from 166 reviews on Trustpilot (both seen October 16, 2026). That 2.4-point split is one of several large G2 and Trustpilot gaps in our research; ADP RUN (4.7 vs 1.2), Paylocity (4.4 vs 1.3) and Gusto (4.6 vs 1.9) show the same pattern.

We have not yet read individual Paycor reviews to document recurring complaints, so we describe no pattern. A 1.6 Trustpilot score from 166 reviews is a signal to ask for references from clients your size before signing.

How we score Paycor

Paycor scores 10 out of 100 in payroll, last of the 15 providers we score. It ties isolved on points and ranks behind it on our complaint tiebreak. In our HR software scores it gets 23 out of 100, tied with Paylocity, because payroll is built into the suite and its HR, time and recruiting modules are listed.

Who Paycor fits, and who should pick something else

Pick something else if:

• You want a suite with a dated public estimate to check a quote against: Paylocity at $18 to $22 per employee per month for core payroll and HR (OutSail, July 2026). Compare on Paycor vs Paylocity.
• You want employees to check their own pay before it runs: Paycom.
• You buy through a local payroll bureau: isolved is sold that way.
• You have a small team and want published prices with no implementation step: OnPay or Gusto, both ranked on best payroll services.

More suites are compared on HR and payroll software and enterprise payroll.

Compare Paycor with other providers

The comparisons and reviews below use the same sources and dates. Paycom vs Paylocity and ADP vs Paylocity round out the suite field.

• ADP vs PaylocityADP RUN's estimated $79 + $4 and free-months offer against Paylocity's per-employee suite pricing.
• Gusto vs SurePayrollTwo posted-price payroll services, with year-end form fees, multi-state costs and exit terms.
• OnPay reviewOne flat price for any number of states, the HR add-on math and a 30-day written exit.
• Paycom reviewQuote only: a dated per-run estimate, the implementation fee and the terms to get in writing.
• Paycom vs PaylocityTwo quote-only HR suites: dated third-party price estimates, first-year math and the terms neither publishes.
• Paycor vs PaylocityTwo quote-only HR suites compared on dated estimates, unpublished terms and a Gusto price check.
• Paylocity reviewQuote only: the $18 to $22 per employee estimate, implementation math and missing terms.
• Paylocity vs PaychexTwo quote-only providers: dated estimates, the October 2026 Paychex promo, and what to get in writing.
• SurePayroll reviewTwo base prices on one page, $50 + $5 per W-2 and the terms you should get in writing.
• Wave Payroll review$100 a month for 10 in any state, a pay-first guarantee and records that vanish at month end.
• isolved reviewNo prices or terms published; how reseller sales work and what a quote must beat.