2025 Forrester TEI Study: 67% ROI with Deel Global Payroll

The 2025 Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study interviewed Deel Global Payroll clients and found they benefit from significant cost savings and payroll time efficiencies.

Deel commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the ROI experienced by organizations with Deel Global Payroll. Forrester interviewed six clients using Deel Global Payroll, with each describing tremendous time savings across payroll processing, payroll vendor management, compliance, reporting, research, and employee support.

Interviewed clients used multiple local payroll vendors to support their payroll operations, but decommissioned these solutions after transitioning to Deel. The fragmented process of managing a separate payroll system for each country caused payroll and compliance issues. The difficult experience overburdened payroll, HR, finance, and compliance teams.

By utilizing a single provider with Deel Global Payroll, payroll management becomes less complicated and more streamlined. Switching to a centralized solution delivers benefits like cost savings, extra efficiency, and improved employee morale.

Read on for more insights, or access the full study here.

67% ROI by switching to a global payroll provider

The quantified benefits of using Deel Global Payroll include retirement costs of disparate local payroll providers, plus labor cost savings.

After interviewing Deel clients, Forrester determined benefits of $2.33 million over three years versus costs of $1.39 million, adding up to a net present value (NPV) of $936,000 and an ROI of 67%.

Consolidating payroll into one solution significantly reduces administrative costs. It eliminates the need to maintain several regional payroll systems and frees up your team to focus on other initiatives.

By using an all-in-one global payroll solution, updates to tax laws and compliance regulations can be centrally managed and applied, making it easier to stay current on a global scale.

Time savings of Deel Global Payroll

Before using Deel for global payroll, most organizations worked with in-country payroll partners to process employee payroll. They faced challenges like:

• Time-consuming, manual work for client payroll teams
• Inaccurate, fragmented payroll
• Slow support

After the move to Deel Global Payroll, businesses consolidated payroll on one platform and now benefit from key efficiencies like:

• 60% less time on payroll processing
• 80% less time on payroll vendor management
• 50% less time dedicated to reporting, research, and onboarding and offboarding employees
• 50% less time for employees dealing with payroll query activities

Less manual work, more payroll data automation

Throughout the payroll cycle—like submitting employee data, approving pay slips, and paying employees—payroll teams reduce their time on manual activities with Deel Global Payroll.

Payroll specialists automate most of the data input process and encounter fewer data inaccuracies during reviews and approvals. With more accurate data and a simplified user interface, the payroll team also spends less time answering employee payroll queries because employees utilize self-service within Deel.

Enhanced access to responsive payroll and compliance experts

Clients gain direct access to Deel payroll and compliance experts when addressing country-specific needs. Deel has 350 in-house payroll experts and a compliance division monitoring for updates to local payroll compliance policies like mandatory employer costs, statutory benefits, PTO policies and holidays.

Deel notifies clients in advance that a compliance change is coming, so clients can focus on running their business, instead of ever-changing country compliance rules.

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