Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Payroll processors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,676 payroll processors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 71,070 professional contacts across them, including 24,861 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers payroll processors worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for payroll processors follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest payroll processors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,063 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Sage, we knock down barriers with information, insights, and tools to help your business flow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,543 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gusto has been growing the small business economy for 15+ years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,365 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ADP, Automatic Data Processing India’s leading provider of payroll and compliance expertise across every state.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,855 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sopra HR Software, leader en solutions et services pour la paie et les RH, répond aux enjeux des Directions des Ressources Humaines des organisations de moyennes et grandes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 798 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PayFit makes payroll and HR management simple for small businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 764 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, BIPO is a leading global payroll and HR solutions provider, supporting businesses across 170+ countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 726 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Paysquare: Simplifying Payroll & Compliance Across India Paysquare is one of India’s leading providers of payroll management and statutory compliance solutions, trusted by…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 689 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded over two decades ago with a clear vision to excel in providing innovative HR solutions, Ascent HR Technologies Pvt Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 655 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since AccountantsWorld By IRIS is a leader in providing HR and payroll software for accountants and CPA firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 586 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CoAdvantage is now CoAd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 543 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leader français du SIRH en Cloud, fondée il y a 15 ans par Alain Crémer, Nibelis accompagne les entreprises de taille intermédiaire (de 50 à salariés) dans leur gestion de la Paie…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 535 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide comprehensive HR solutions to companies of all sizes throughout the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 496 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gestion externalisée de la paie et des RH Cegedim Business Services est un acteur incontournable du marché des solutions et des services paie/RH.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 436 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PrismHR creates exceptional software and services, empowering human resource outsourcing service providers such as Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) and HR outsourcers to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 395 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Des solutions digitales innovantes, déployées par nos partenaires experts pour simplifier la gestion de la paie et des RH en entreprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 324 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BASIC's integrated HR solutions come full-circle for employers nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 304 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zeta Service è specializzata in paghe e amministrazione del personale in outsourcing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 291 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Employers need a partner they can rely on to face today’s new challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From start-up to scale-up, SurePayroll online payroll, tax management, HR and benefits solutions give small business and household employers the freedom to succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 271 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Inova Payroll is a leading employer services company, integrating payroll and human capital management (HCM) technology with personalized support and full-service HR outsourcing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 266 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “activpayroll provides secure, compliant and expert led global payroll and mobility services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are experts in transforming the complexity of payroll management into efficient and customized solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Workstream is the modern all-in-one HR and payroll solution built specifically for restaurants, and trusted by locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Media Services is an entertainment payroll, production accounting and software enterprise with over 45 years’ experience in the United States and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TEAM Risk Management Strategies is the nation’s leading provider of comprehensive, outsourced payroll and human resources services for fiduciaries and advisors whose clients have…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: payroll processors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names payroll processors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of payroll processors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name payroll processors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Payroll processors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among payroll processors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for payroll processors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “payroll processors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names payroll processors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among payroll processors, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 24,861 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Payroll processors by location
18 lists · largest firstEvery Payroll processors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Payroll processors based in the United States1,077
- Payroll processors based in the United Kingdom438
- Payroll processors based in France402
- Payroll processors based in the Netherlands298
- Payroll processors based in India221
- Payroll processors based in Italy156
- Payroll processors based in Germany146
- Payroll processors based in South Africa114
- Payroll processors based in Brazil113
- Payroll processors based in Australia95
- Payroll processors based in Mexico85
- Payroll processors based in Sweden73
- Payroll processors based in Canada68
- Payroll processors based in Belgium55
- Payroll processors based in Poland46
- Payroll processors based in Switzerland45
- Payroll processors based in Ireland32
- Payroll processors based in Austria28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names payroll processors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many payroll processors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,676 payroll processors worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
SAGE, headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most payroll processors?
The United States leads with 1,077 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (438) and France (402). Every payroll processors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most payroll processors?
London leads with 78 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (47) and Sao Paulo (34).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 24,861 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,676 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.