G2 Vendor Directory

Wave Payroll vs. Paylocity

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricWave Payroll

by Wave

Paylocity

by Paylocity

Overall rating4.04.4
Review count316,320
Ease of use9.19.0
Ease of setup9.38.4
Quality of support8.38.8
Meets requirements8.99.1
NPS36.66666763.221347
Small Business93.5%19.8%
Mid-Market3.2%70.8%
Enterprise3.2%9.5%
Total page views8416,085
Total LLM citations78642,548

Wave Payroll

Wave delivers innovative financial services and award-winning free software to small- and micro-businesses around the world.

Pros

  • Payroll
  • Flexibility
  • Helpful
  • Comprehensive Features
  • Ease of Use

Paylocity

Paylocity is an award-winning HCM platform that brings HR, Finance, and IT together in one connected system, covering payroll, benefits, talent management, time and labor, spend, and IT provisioning on a single employee record. Cut manual HR tasks, run payroll faster, and get new hires up and running sooner. Get full visibility across expenses, accounts payable, corporate cards, and procurement in one place. Automate account creation and manage IT provisioning without juggling separate systems. AI is built into everyday workflows across all three.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Helpful
  • Customer Support
  • Intuitive
  • Simple
  • Efficiency