Case Study: Stevens Creek Chrysler achieves 100% accurate, compliant payroll and halves payroll processing workload with Paylocity

Auto Dealer Makes Complex California Compensation Look Easy with Paylocity

Stevens Creek Chrysler, a 500‑employee auto dealer with 10 dealerships across Northern California, faced highly complex, performance‑based compensation (commissions, hourly, overtime and California pay rules) plus manual benefits and onboarding processes that relied on spreadsheets and paper. After a disappointing experience with another vendor that produced repeated payroll errors, Stevens Creek turned to Paylocity for a modern HR platform including Payroll & Compensation, Benefits Administration, Time & Attendance (with facial recognition) and Onboarding.

Paylocity built a practice environment to model the dealer’s intricate pay plans and then automated time collection, compensation calculations, 401k flows and benefits enrollment. The result: 100% accurate, compliant payroll every month, a 50% reduction in payroll processing headcount (from three people to two), 0.5 FTE saved on 401k administration, and 50% faster compensation calculations—freeing HR from paperwork and strengthening employee trust.

Stevens Creek Chrysler

Darla Romey

Director of HR