Compensation management without the guesswork.
Salaries should be based on data, not discretion. With Gusto’s compensation management software you can define salary ranges, connect pay to performance, and deliver annual raises and promotions with confidence. Build trust and streamline compensation with payroll, reviews, and reporting—all in one place.
Easy pay equity
Set structured salary bands by role and location so pay stays consistent and competitive across your business.
Bulk compensation updates
Forget the CSV import. Deliver annual raises and title changes for the whole team in just a few clicks—by percentage, flat amount, or target wage.
Performance-based pay
Use performance insights and goals from each review cycle to make more transparent, merit-based pay decisions.
Pay ranges & bands
Turn messy spreadsheets into clear pay ranges.
From raises and promotions to new-hire compensation, salary ranges help keep your business competitive while maintaining pay equity across your team. With internal frameworks based on industry-specific compensation benchmarking, team members feel confident they’re paid fairly while HR gets rid of the guesswork.
Compensation planning
Connect performance reviews to pay decisions
With integrated goal setting, regular review cycles, and a culture of continuous feedback, Gusto makes it easy to connect pay decisions to overall performance. Set a predictable compensation calendar and tie annual salary increases, bonuses, and equity to the bigger performance picture—not just a single conversation each year.
360 reviews
Automated review cycles
Compensation calendar
OKRs & goal setting
Continuous feedback
Pay equity analysis
Support pay equity and build trust with better insights.
Compensation isn’t just about budgets—it’s about trust. With structured pay bands, consistent review cycles, and data-backed insights, you can have better, more informed compensation conversations. Track data on performance, pull salaries by employee or department over time, and quickly identify unexplained gaps across roles, levels, and locations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Compensation management software allows you to create a formalized, structured way to manage compensation for your team. The software helps standardize pay across roles and locations while building employee trust.
When you finalize raises or promotions in Gusto, updates flow directly into payroll, so you don’t have to maintain separate spreadsheets or manually reconcile numbers every pay period.
Yes. Gusto’s compensation approach is built around levels, job families, and pay zones. You can define ranges that reflect differences in scope and geography, then use those bands to guide offers, raises, and promotions so pay stays consistent and competitive across locations.
We sure do. Gusto uses performance ratings and review cycles as key inputs into compensation decisions. With a clear rating scale and a predictable compensation calendar, you can more directly tie base salary increases, annual performance grants, and variable cash to how employees are performing over time—not just tenure.
Performance & compensation management features are available with Gusto’s Plus and Premium plans, or as an add-on to the Simple plan. All plans benefit from core reporting and insights, but Premium customers get deeper performance and compensation tooling, priority support, and help from HR experts when they need it.
Gusto gives you a structured way to define ranges, track pay decisions, and document how compensation is determined, which supports more consistent and equitable outcomes. While Gusto doesn’t provide legal advice or pay equity audit software, our tools and HR resources make it easier to prepare for internal pay equity discussions and to stay aligned with pay transparency laws and your compensation philosophy.