Paychex (PAYX) FCF Payout Ratio (2009 - 2026)

Paychex has disclosed FCF Payout Ratio across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 0.48 for Q1 2026.

• FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 came in at 0.48, down 9.11% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Feb 2026 was 0.7 (down 25.5% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 0.85, up 11.9% from the prior year.
• FCF Payout Ratio came in at 0.48 for Q1 2026 at Paychex, down from 0.81 in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, FCF Payout Ratio ranged from a high of 4.1 in Q2 2024 to a low of 0.36 in Q1 2022.
• The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.68 (2022), against an average of 0.96.
• Across the five-year window, FCF Payout Ratio jumped 373.5% in 2024 and tumbled 66.45% in 2025, its largest moves.
• Paychex's FCF Payout Ratio stood at 0.96 in 2022, then gained by 11.64% to 1.08 in 2023, then jumped by 45.59% to 1.57 in 2024, then slumped by 48.6% to 0.81 in 2025, then plunged by 40.34% to 0.48 in 2026.
• The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.48 (Q1 2026), 0.81 (Q4 2025), and 0.59 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.