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Paychex, Inc. reports developments tied to its human capital management business, including cloud-based payroll and HCM software, HR advisory services, benefits administration, retirement services, insurance solutions, and outsourcing through administrative service organization and professional employer organization offerings.
Recurring updates cover quarterly results, dividend actions, product integrations such as embedded on-demand pay for PEO worksite employees, governance recognition, and the Paychex Small Business Employment Watch, which uses payroll data from U.S. small business clients to report employment, wage, and hours-worked trends.
Paychex (Nasdaq: PAYX) announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $1.19 per share on its common stock. The dividend is payable on August 28, 2026 to shareholders of record as of July 28, 2026.
Paychex (NASDAQ:PAYX) reported that its Small Business Jobs Index rose for the fourth straight month in June 2026, reaching 99.83, matching its highest level since August 2025. All regions and sectors showed faster small business employment growth, led by the West and Leisure & Hospitality.
Hourly and weekly earnings growth were both 2.80%, with weekly hours up 0.14%. Indiana led state job growth with an index of 101.46, while California climbed above 100 (100.01) for the first time since March 2024.
Paychex (Nasdaq: PAYX) reported fourth quarter 2026 revenue of $1.61 billion, up 12%, with diluted EPS up 43% to $1.17 and adjusted EPS up 11% to $1.32. Full-year 2026 revenue rose 17% to $6.51 billion, with EPS up 7% to $4.89 and adjusted EPS up 11% to $5.51.
Operating income grew 40% in Q4 and 14% for the year, while adjusted operating margin for 2026 was 43.2%. The company launched its AI-powered WISE workforce intelligence engine, completed integration of Paycor, and returned $2.2 billion to shareholders via $1.6 billion in dividends and $611 million in buybacks. Fiscal 2027 guidance calls for 5–6% revenue growth and 7–9% adjusted EPS growth.
Paychex (Nasdaq: PAYX) was named one of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies 2026 by Newsweek and Statista, based on customer, investor, and employee trust and social media analysis.
Paychex also earned Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces 2026 recognition, highlighting its workplace culture, employee experience, and long-term focus on ethics and core values.
Paychex (Nasdaq: PAYX) has been named to the inaugural TIME and Statista America’s Top WorkTech Companies 2026 list, recognizing impactful and financially strong work technology providers. The company highlights its AI-powered HCM strategy, including WISE intelligence and recent innovations in Paychex Flex, Paycor, and SurePayroll.
Statista’s methodology evaluated about 5,000 U.S. companies on financial strength and industry impact, with 250 ranked. Paychex placed in the top 20% of the HR Core, Payroll & Benefits category.
Paychex (Nasdaq: PAYX) will release its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and full-year results, for the period ended May 31, 2026, on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, before market open.
The company will hold an earnings conference call at 9:30 a.m. ET the same day, featuring President and CEO John Gibson and CFO Bob Schrader, with a live webcast and replay available via the Paychex investor relations portal.
Paychex (NASDAQ:PAYX) reported that its Small Business Jobs Index rose for the third straight month in May 2026, up 0.18 points to 99.34, the year’s highest level.
Weekly earnings growth reached 2.98%, hourly earnings were up 2.73%, and weekly hours worked growth stayed positive for a third month.
Paychex (Nasdaq: PAYX) introduced WISE (Workforce Intelligence Strengthened by Expertise), an AI-powered platform that creates an agentic digital workforce across HR workflows. WISE uses decades of proprietary data and human expertise to anticipate needs, surface recommendations, and autonomously execute tasks within customer-defined protocols.
WISE powers Paychex Flex, Paycor, and SurePayroll with four components: autonomous Agents, context-aware Intelligence for analytics and reporting, multi-channel Assistants for guidance and task support, and expert Advisory that alerts Paychex HR specialists at critical decision points.
Paychex (NASDAQ:PAYX) reported its Small Business Jobs Index rose to 99.16 in April, a 0.35 percentage-point monthly gain and the largest one-month increase since February 2025. Weekly hours worked growth was 0.18% (second consecutive monthly increase) and hourly earnings growth remained below 3% at 2.71%.
All four U.S. regions posted month-over-month gains; the Midwest led at 99.55. Construction saw the largest industry gain (+0.64 points).
Paychex (Nasdaq: PAYX) announced a regular quarterly cash dividend of $1.19 per share, a 10% increase from $1.08. The dividend is payable on May 29, 2026 to shareholders of record as of May 13, 2026.
Paychex said this is its fifth consecutive double-digit dividend increase and that it expects to return over $1.5 billion in dividends for the fiscal year ending May 31, 2026. The company has paid consecutive quarterly cash dividends every year since 1988.