Deel Payroll Delivers 67% ROI and Standardized Processes

Enterprise payroll teams are stuck managing a fractured patchwork of local vendors, manual spreadsheets, and disconnected systems.

In the 2025 Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of Deel Payroll study, businesses that consolidated global payroll on Deel retired legacy local providers, reduced manual work by up to 80%, and achieved a 67% ROI over three years.

Deel commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the ROI experienced by organizations with Deel Payroll. Forrester interviewed six clients using Deel 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 compliance risk, audit exposure, and constant fire drills. The difficult experience overburdened payroll, HR, finance, and compliance teams.

By consolidating payroll software and integrating existing HR platforms with Deel Payroll, payroll management moves from a fragmented system to a standardized operating model. By switching to a centralized solution, businesses experienced cost savings, extra efficiency, and improved employee morale.

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67% ROI and reduced administrative costs

The quantified benefits of using Deel 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 strategic business initiatives.

By using an integrated global payroll solution, updates to tax laws and compliance regulations can be centrally managed and applied, making it easier to stay updated on a global scale.

The impact of retiring local vendors

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 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 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 2,000+ in-house experts in payroll, HR, and legal. A dedicated compliance division continuously monitors country-specific regulations, such as 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.

Centralize payroll and integrate existing platforms with Deel Payroll

Deel Payroll centralizes and standardizes payroll in one intuitive platform that connects HR, payments, benefits, and compliance across 130+ countries.

We also integrate with popular HR platforms like Workday and accounting solutions like NetSuite, so you can continue using systems that are already working well.

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