--- title: "Paylocity API: the payroll API vs the job postings you can actually read" description: "The Paylocity API you find first is payroll and HR - partner-gated, customer-sponsored, scoped to one tenant." canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/paylocity-api-jobs date_published: 2026-07-30 date_modified: 2026-07-30 author: Dvir Atias --- # Paylocity API: the payroll API vs the job postings you can actually read The Paylocity API you find first is payroll and HR - partner-gated, customer-sponsored, scoped to one tenant. But every Paylocity recruiting customer also runs a public careers board that embeds its complete job list as JSON, one GET per board. Where that surface lives, why discovering boards is the real problem, and how to query Paylocity postings through one jobs API. Search for the **Paylocity API** and everything you find is payroll and HR: `developer.paylocity.com`, employee records, earnings, time and attendance. All of it sits behind the Paylocity Partner Program - a sponsoring customer, a business review, and credentials scoped to that one customer’s tenant. If what you actually want is job postings - who is hiring, for what, where - the official API is the wrong door. The postings live somewhere far easier to reach: every Paylocity recruiting customer runs a public careers board that embeds its complete job list as JSON. ## What the official API is actually for Paylocity is an HCM platform first; recruiting is one module among payroll, benefits, and time tracking. The developer API mirrors that: it exists so vendors with mutual customers - benefits brokers, background-check services, scheduling tools - can sync employee data for a specific client. Three properties follow: - **Partner-gated.** Credentials come through the Partner Program, and the application needs an active Paylocity customer to sponsor your integration. - **Per-tenant.** Approved credentials are scoped to the sponsoring customer. Reading data across many Paylocity companies would mean a separate sponsorship for each one. - **No public jobs endpoint.** There is no documented surface for reading a company’s published postings, with or without credentials. For a recruiting CRM integrating on behalf of its own client, that design is fine. For a job board, a sourcing tool, or an aggregator it is a dead end - the same shape as [BambooHR](https://jobspipe.dev/sources/bamboohr), where the API you find first is HRIS and the postings you want live somewhere else entirely. Try it without a key ``` curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search ``` Only `/v1/sandbox/*` needs no key. ## The public surface: one board, one GET Every Paylocity customer that publishes jobs gets a hosted careers board at a predictable URL: ``` https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/All/ ``` That page embeds the complete published job list as structured JSON (`window.pageData.Jobs`) - title, location, employment type, and posting details for every open role at once. One GET drains the whole board: no API key, no pagination, no headless browser. Mechanically this is closer to Greenhouse’s public job boards than to login-walled enterprise ATSs like [Taleo](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/taleo-api-jobs) or iCIMS. Individual postings live at `recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/Details/`, and many customers embed the same board into a careers page on their own domain. Either way, the underlying job data is public. ## Discovery is the actual problem The catch is the `companyId`. It is a GUID, Paylocity publishes no directory of its recruiting customers, and nothing about a company’s name or website tells you its identifier. Until you hold the GUID, the board might as well not exist - and that inverts the usual ATS difficulty. With Workday the hard part is crawling politely at scale; with Paylocity the crawl is trivial and the hard part is knowing which boards exist at all. One property makes discovery tractable: job URLs in the wild point at `/Jobs/Details/`, and that details page links back to its own board’s `/Jobs/All/` URL. Any single Paylocity posting you encounter - on a careers page, in a job feed, in a search result - resolves to the full board of the company behind it. Board lists are built one confirmed GUID at a time, which is exactly the kind of accumulating discovery work that makes sense to do once, centrally, rather than in every downstream project. ## What the live data looks like Some ground truth from the JobsPipe index as of late July 2026: the Paylocity boards we track carry 384 live postings across 19 companies, refreshed twice a day, and 381 of the 384 are US roles - consistent with Paylocity’s US-centric customer base. It is the smallest of the 11 platforms in the index, and coverage grows board by board. The point of indexing it is not volume; it is that Paylocity customers skew toward US mid-market employers - healthcare providers, logistics, manufacturing, regional services - that never appear on Greenhouse or Lever. ## Every Paylocity board through one jobs API JobsPipe indexes public Paylocity boards alongside LinkedIn, Indeed, Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and the rest of its 11 source platforms, normalized into one [jobs API](https://jobspipe.dev/jobs-api) schema. One filter scopes a search to Paylocity-sourced postings: ``` curl https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer jp_live_your_key_here" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "source_or": ["paylocity"], "job_country_code_or": ["US"] }' ``` Scope to one employer with `company_name_partial_match_or`, or drop the `source_or` filter and search every platform at once - the response shape is identical whether a posting came from a Paylocity board or a Workday tenant. The free tier is 1,000 jobs to start. For the wider landscape of which ATSs are open and which are gated, see [public vs gated ATS APIs](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/public-vs-gated-ats-apis) and [the side-by-side of 15 jobs APIs](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/best-jobs-api-2026). ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Does Paylocity have a public API for job postings? Not through the official developer API. That API at developer.paylocity.com covers payroll and HR data, is gated behind the Paylocity Partner Program, needs a sponsoring customer, and is scoped to that customer's tenant, with no documented endpoint for reading published postings. The public surface is different: every Paylocity recruiting customer runs a hosted careers board at recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/All/ that embeds its complete job list as JSON in window.pageData.Jobs, readable with one GET and no key. ### How do I find a company's Paylocity companyId? The companyId is a GUID, Paylocity publishes no directory of its recruiting customers, and nothing about a company's name or website reveals it. The practical route is any single posting: job URLs point at /Jobs/Details/, and that details page links back to its own board's /Jobs/All/ URL, so one posting you encounter resolves to the full board of the company behind it. Board lists are built one confirmed GUID at a time. ### What kinds of companies post jobs through Paylocity? Paylocity's customer base is US-centric, and as of late July 2026 almost every Paylocity posting in the JobsPipe index was a US role. The employers skew toward US mid-market companies - healthcare providers, logistics, manufacturing and regional services - that never appear on Greenhouse or Lever. It is the smallest of the 11 platforms JobsPipe indexes, refreshed twice a day, with coverage growing board by board. Related ## Keep reading - [Guide · Jul 16, 2026Taleo API: pulling job postings from Oracle's legacy ATS](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/taleo-api-jobs) - [Guide · Mar 22, 2026Workday API: public job postings from every tenant in 2026](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/workday-api-guide) - [Guide · Jan 25, 2026Dice API: getting tech job postings without the partnership paperwork](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/dice-api-tech-jobs) - [Guide · Sep 30, 2026Greenhouse API for many companies: reading thousands of job boards](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/greenhouse-api-for-many-companies) - [Guide · Aug 16, 2026Payscale API: the compensation API you can read about but not sign up for](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/payscale-api) ## Further reading - [Paylocity API](https://jobspipe.dev/sources/paylocity) --- Building this integration yourself? The steps above work. The alternative is one API over 30+ sources, already normalized and deduplicated. Try it right now - no key, no signup: ```bash curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search ``` Sample data, exact live schema. For live data get a free key (1,000 jobs to start) at https://jobspipe.dev/signup, then swap /v1/sandbox/jobs/search for /v1/jobs/search with an Authorization: Bearer header. Full agent index: https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin