§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Paylocity on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter, filed under Sourcing, comes out 14 points above Paylocity, filed under ATS-integrated: 57 against 43 under rubric v1.0. LinkedIn Recruiter takes all 7 criteria and Paylocity none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, LinkedIn Recruiter 38 to Paylocity 30. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, Paylocity 44, 20% weight), is only 33% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
Vendor profile
Paylocity
Paylocity is a cloud-based HCM and payroll platform whose talent suite includes an applicant tracking system with generative-AI job-description and invite drafting, one-way video interviews, candidate self-scheduling, and a conversational "AI Assistant."
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Paylocity is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Paylocity 44
4.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Paylocity 33
3.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Paylocity 50
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Paylocity 30
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Paylocity 54
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Paylocity 42
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Paylocity 58
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 44 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 43 (F) | +14 | +13.7 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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