Compensation

Build compensation programs that are fair, fast, and future-proof

Replace messy spreadsheets with one place to run clear compensation reviews and manage pay ranges. Finish cycles faster, stay on budget, and give leaders confidence to make fair pay decisions across every country.

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Trusted by 40,000+ companies from startups to enterprise

End-to-end compensation management

Managing a global compensation program is already complex and error-prone. We make it simple and dependable by bringing together your compensation data and review cycles so you stay efficient and avoid fines.

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Build, refresh, and share compensation bands
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Speed up your compensation review process
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Comply with upcoming pay transparency regulations
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Make changes on the same platform you run payroll

Compliance & risk

Take control of your entire planning cycle

Run structured, auditable compensation review cycles, on time and on budget, with built-in global currency support. Eliminate error-prone, static spreadsheets.

  • Automate guides using performance scores, location, and more
  • Allocate salary and bonus budgets directly to managers
  • Track budget usage in real time and report progress to executives
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Make smarter decisions with connected data

Understand how workers are paid compared to your compensation bands using compa-ratios and custom dashboards. Spot gaps, compression, or outliers before they become problems.

  • Track compa-ratios by role, level, and geography
  • Build dashboards in HRIS to visualize trends across teams
  • Validate benchmarks and calibrate candidate expectations with Global Salary Insights
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Get ahead of pay transparency regulations

Whether it's the EU Pay Transparency Act or a new US state law, Compensation keeps you compliant and confident. 

  • Centralize pay ranges for easy sharing with jobs and workers
  • Control access to sensitive compensation data
  • Analyze pay distribution with custom reports
  • Monitor equity indicators like gender and age-based pay gaps
  • Automatically generate and send salary change statements
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FAQs

By purchasing Compensation, you gain access to the full dataset of Deel Global Salary insights, helping you know what to pay workers across 150+ different countries. Our proprietary data helps sense-check compensation decisions and calibrate candidate expectations, especially in hard-to-benchmark regions or roles.
This data is based on workers paid through Deel, including EORs and contractors. Coverage varies by geography, role, and level and is not fully normalized. The data was last updated in April 2025.

Our compensation planning software helps global organizations streamline the following workflows:

  1. Developing a global compensation strategy: Easily build compensation bands customized by role and location.
  2. Making compensation decisions: Ensure faster and more streamlined compensation planning and focal reviews
  3. Sharing and managing a global compensation strategy: Allow cross-functional stakeholders to view and communicate compensation decisions
  4. Ensuring compliance with pay transparency regulations: Store your compensation ranges in one place to easily share with job postings and workers. Create custom reports on age/gender pay distribution, compensation by country, etc.

Compensation is a compensation management tool that combines benchmarking, workflows, and insights with the following major features:

  1. Compensation review cycles based on merit, market adjustments, or bonus allocations
  2. Compensation band management
  3. Budget automation and tracking
  4. Pay transparency enablement 
  5. Compensation reporting 

Compensation helps HR teams run faster, more consistent, and more equitable compensation cycles, with less manual effort and more confidence in every decision.
Plan and track budgets more easily with custom guidance, automated calculations, and clear visibility into how budgets are being used, without chasing spreadsheets or micromanaging managers.
Support pay-for-performance and transparency by connecting compensation decisions to performance data, salary bands, and compliance-ready documentation.
Report on pay equity across roles, levels, or demographics, and share compensation ranges with the right people using custom permissions.
And when you need to sense-check your benchmarks or align with candidate expectations, Deel’s Global Salary Insights offer supplemental guidance across 150+ countries, especially helpful in hard-to-benchmark roles or markets.

Compensation creates a shared, structured space for HR, Compensation, and Finance teams to align on pay strategy, without chasing spreadsheets or reconciling disconnected data.

  • HR can set up review cycles, manage compensation bands, and ensure pay decisions reflect performance and company policy.
  • Compensation teams can define guidance, budgets, and governance rules that flow down to managers, while tracking how those guidelines are applied across the org.
  • Finance gains real-time visibility into budget allocations and spend vs. request progress, with clear reporting on compensation impact and cost forecasting. By centralizing compensation planning and connecting it to performance and headcount data, everyone works from the same system, with less manual work and more shared confidence in every decision.

Compensation natively integrates with Deel's HRIS, Engage (talent management system), and Deel Payroll*. 
*tentatively planned for 2026.

Deel makes growing remote and international teams effortless

150+

countries

40,000+

customers

$20B+

compliantly processed global payroll

90+

NPS for enterprise customers