Does Paylocity have an API?

Yes. Paylocity offers APIs that its customers and approved partners use to build integrations against one company's payroll and HR data, and the documentation is public on its developer portal. It is not a jobs API. Credentials reach a single customer's account, and nothing in it returns the job postings of other companies that run Paylocity. Those postings live on public careers pages instead.

Paylocity describes the APIs as a way for customers and partners to access data quickly and securely for building integrations. The portal lists the areas covered: employee demographics, pay details, pay entry and pay setup, company level information, punch detail and punch import, scheduling, document management, learning management, background checks and assessments. To get access you must be an existing Paylocity customer, or a vendor with at least one Paylocity customer willing to take part in testing. You submit an access request, and after review Paylocity issues OAuth credentials and a sandbox account. A vendor's credentials work on behalf of the customers it serves, which suits a benefits broker or a scheduling tool syncing employee records for a client. The portal documents no endpoint for reading a company's published job postings, with or without credentials.

Job postings take a different route. Every Paylocity customer that publishes openings gets a hosted careers board under recruiting.paylocity.com, and many embed the same board in a careers page on their own domain. The board is public and needs no key. The hard part is discovery: Paylocity publishes no directory of its recruiting customers, and nothing in a company's name reveals its board. JobsPipe collects the public Paylocity boards it has confirmed and returns them from POST /v1/jobs/search with source_or set to paylocity, in the same record shape as every other collected board: job_title, company, url, date_posted, discovered_at, last_seen_at, status, closed_at and ghost_score, plus salary fields when a range is stated.

If you are a Paylocity customer or a vendor integrating payroll or HR data for one, start with the access request on the developer portal. If you want postings across Paylocity employers, the official API is the wrong door. Try the JobsPipe sandbox search endpoint, which needs no key, then use a free tier key and add company_name_partial_match_or or job_location_or to narrow the results.

The full treatment is on Job board and ATS APIs.