Paychex, Inc. (acquired January 2025 for $4.1 billion) Paycor Developer API
Official vendor OpenAPI document · agent-readyHR recruitingPayrollOAuth 2.06 EndpointsREST
For Agents
Manage employee records, process payroll data, track time and attendance, and handle HR operations for workforce management.
Use for: Get a list of all active employees for a company, Retrieve detailed information for a specific employee by ID, Access employee pay stub history for compensation analysis, List all legal entities to identify organizational structure
Not supported: Does not handle benefits enrollment, performance reviews, or recruitment workflows - use for employee data management, payroll operations, and organizational structure only.
Comprehensive Human Capital Management (HCM) API for managing employees, payroll, time tracking, and HR data. Paycor provides programmatic access to workforce management, enabling integrations for employee onboarding, payroll processing, time and attendance tracking, and organizational data management. The platform serves small to mid-sized businesses with over 40,000 clients, handling critical HR operations including benefits, deductions, earnings, and employee lifecycle management.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Paycor Developer API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Paycor Developer API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fpaycor.com%2Fpaycor" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fpaycor.com%2Fpaycor" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Paycor Developer API.
Retrieve and manage employee records including personal information and employment status
Access organizational structure through legal entities and departments
Query payroll data including earnings, deductions, and pay stubs
List and filter employees by legal entity for multi-company operations
Retrieve employee pay stub history for compensation reporting
Access payroll configuration data for earnings and deduction codes
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Paycor Developer API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Employee Data Synchronization
Sync employee records between Paycor and other business systems like HRIS platforms, directory services, or access management tools. The API provides read access to employee demographics, status, and organizational assignment, enabling automated onboarding and offboarding workflows. Keep downstream systems updated when employees change roles, departments, or employment status.
List all active employees for a legal entity and sync their data (ID, name, email, status) to an external HRIS system
Payroll Reporting and Analytics
Extract payroll data including pay stubs, earnings, and deductions for financial reporting, compensation analysis, and labor cost tracking. Access historical pay stub data to build dashboards, generate custom reports, or feed data into business intelligence tools. Query earnings and deduction codes to understand payroll configuration across multiple entities.
Retrieve pay stub history for all employees in a legal entity and calculate total labor costs by earnings category for the last quarter
Multi-Company Workforce Management
Manage employee data across multiple legal entities for organizations with subsidiary structures or franchise operations. List all legal entities to identify company hierarchy, then query employees, earnings, and deductions specific to each entity. Useful for consolidated reporting, cross-company transfers, and centralized HR operations.
List all legal entities, then for each entity retrieve employee counts and payroll configuration (earnings and deduction codes) to create a consolidated organizational report
Compliance and Audit Reporting
Generate compliance reports by extracting employee and payroll data for audits, labor law compliance, and regulatory filings. Access employee status information, pay stub history, and payroll configuration to verify proper wage calculations, tax withholdings, and benefit deductions. Support SOC 2 audits, labor department inquiries, and internal compliance checks.
For a specified date range, retrieve all pay stubs for employees in a legal entity and validate that deductions match the configured deduction codes
AI Agent Integration for HR Automation
Automate HR workflows by integrating AI agents with Paycor through Jentic. Agents can query employee data, retrieve payroll information, and answer HR questions by searching for intents like 'get employee info' or 'retrieve pay stub'. Jentic handles OAuth token management and schema discovery, enabling agents to call Paycor APIs without manual credential handling or API documentation lookup.
Use Jentic to search for 'list employees from paycor', load the schema for GET /v1/employees, and execute a request to retrieve all active employees for a legal entity
Key Endpoints
6 endpoints — comprehensive human capital management (hcm) api for managing employees, payroll, time tracking, and hr data.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/v1/employees
List all employees for a legal entity
GET
/v1/employees/{employeeId}
Get detailed employee information
GET
/v1/legalentities
List all legal entities (companies)
GET
/v1/legalentities/{legalEntityId}/earnings
List earnings codes for a legal entity
GET
/v1/legalentities/{legalEntityId}/deductions
List deduction codes for a legal entity
GET
/v1/employees/{employeeId}/payStubs
Retrieve employee pay stub history
GET
/v1/employees
List all employees for a legal entity
GET
/v1/employees/{employeeId}
Get detailed employee information
GET
/v1/legalentities
List all legal entities (companies)
GET
/v1/legalentities/{legalEntityId}/earnings
List earnings codes for a legal entity
GET
/v1/legalentities/{legalEntityId}/deductions
List deduction codes for a legal entity
GET
/v1/employees/{employeeId}/payStubs
Retrieve employee pay stub history
Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring Paycor by hand means running its OAuth 2.0 flow, managing scoped access tokens, and joining employee and legal entity data yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the Paycor Developer API from the API Directory, store the credentials once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
Paycor puts the employee and legal entity ids in the URL path (/v1/employees/{employeeId}/payStubs, /v1/legalentities/{legalEntityId}/earnings), so a rule can pin your agent to one employee: it can read that employee's pay stubs and nothing else. Every endpoint here is read-only, so the agent only retrieves the records you allow.
Credential isolation
Your Paycor OAuth tokens are stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. They never enter the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get employee payroll data' or 'list a legal entity's deductions', and Jentic returns the matching Paycor operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Paycor Developer API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Paycor API use?
The Paycor API uses OAuth 2.0 with authorization code flow. You authorize through https://apis.paycor.com/oauth/authorize and exchange the code for an access token at https://apis.paycor.com/oauth/token. Jentic stores Paycor OAuth tokens encrypted in the credential vault and provides scoped access to agents, so raw tokens never appear in agent context. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.
Can I retrieve employee payroll data with the Paycor API?
Yes. Use GET /v1/employees/{employeeId}/payStubs to retrieve pay stub history for a specific employee. You can also query earnings codes (GET /v1/legalentities/{legalEntityId}/earnings) and deduction codes (GET /v1/legalentities/{legalEntityId}/deductions) to understand payroll configuration. Through Jentic, agents search for 'get employee payroll data', load the schema, and execute the request without manual API lookup.
How do I list all employees for a company in Paycor?
Use GET /v1/employees with the legalEntityId query parameter to list all employees for a specific legal entity (company). First, retrieve available legal entities using GET /v1/legalentities to identify the correct legalEntityId. The response includes employee ID, name, email, and status.
What is a legal entity in the Paycor API?
A legal entity represents a company or organizational unit within your Paycor account. Organizations with multiple subsidiaries, franchises, or business units will have multiple legal entities. Use GET /v1/legalentities to list all entities, then use the legalEntityId to scope employee and payroll queries to specific companies.
What are the rate limits for the Paycor API?
The OpenAPI spec does not specify rate limits. Consult the Paycor developer documentation at https://developers.paycor.com for current rate limit details. Enterprise accounts typically have higher limits for bulk data operations.
Can I create or update employee records through the Paycor API?
The current OpenAPI spec (v1.0.0) includes only GET endpoints for reading employee and payroll data. For write operations like creating or updating employees, check the Paycor developer portal at https://developers.paycor.com/explore for additional endpoints or contact Paycor support for access to write operations.
How do AI agents use the Paycor API through Jentic?
Agents search Jentic for intents like 'get employee data from paycor' or 'retrieve pay stubs'. Jentic returns the relevant Paycor API operations (e.g., GET /v1/employees) with their input schemas. The agent calls the operation via Jentic's execution layer, which handles OAuth token management and request formatting. Integration time drops from days to minutes. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.
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