Case Study: The Lawrenceville School achieves $385K in savings and 75% faster payroll with Paylocity

Prestigious School Scores Top Marks and Unlocks Six-Figure Savings with Paylocity

The Lawrenceville School, a historic New Jersey preparatory school with about 600 staff, faced mounting inefficiencies from seven separate HR, payroll, timekeeping, recruiting, and benefits systems that created duplicate work, slow seasonal hiring, manual reporting, and payroll runs that took up to four days. Human Resources Director Kristen Oberlin selected Paylocity to replace the legacy stack with a single modern HR, payroll, and finance platform (including Payroll, Time & Labor, Recruiting & Onboarding, and Benefits Administration).

Paylocity consolidated those systems into one platform and streamlined processes across payroll, hiring, scheduling, and reporting, delivering measurable impact: $385,000 in overall cost savings, $90,000 saved by replacing seven systems, a 75% reduction in payroll processing time (now one day), and a 75% acceleration in recruitment tasks, along with faster onboarding, better insights for leaders, and improved employee engagement through Paylocity’s community and recognition tools.

The Lawrenceville School

Kristen Oberlin

Human Resources Director