Compensation Planning Software to Take Back Control.
Aeqium gives comp teams the real-time control they’ve always needed to launch, adjust, and complete cycles without admin layers, IT bottlenecks, or spreadsheet chaos.
This isn’t just compensation planning software. It’s the control you’ve always deserved.
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Every Compensation Software Feature Built for One Goal:
Giving You Control
Aeqium isn’t a suite of disconnected modules. It’s a system designed to give comp teams total control over how, when, and why decisions are made. From cycle creation to employee visibility, every feature removes friction and restores power where it belongs: with you.
Aeqium's platform adapts to any compensation strategy. Our AI makes that flexibility instantly accessible. Configure your platform and generate custom reports in plain English, at the click of a button.
Control over your timeline, logic, and approvals.
No implementation projects. No rejection on last minute changes. No waiting on external dependencies. Just instant execution that matches your vision exactly.
Control your structure, costs, and fairness.
Set and manage compensation bands that actually reflect your company’s pay philosophy. With Aeqium, you can create and customize equitable salary ranges, maintain internal parity, and align pay decisions with strategic goals. All in one place.
Control what you see — and who sees it.
Aeqium connects to your HRIS and lets AI do the heavy lifting. Instead of downloading, cleaning, and reconciling static reports, you get live calibration and pay equity reports that AI builds automatically. The system highlights equity gaps, surfaces trends, and delivers insights that are always accurate, always up to date, and ready the moment you need them.
Control the narrative. Build trust.
Give employees a clear view into their compensation — salary, equity, bonus, and benefits — all in one place. With 24/7 access and personalized Total Rewards Statements, you help employees understand not just what they earn, but why it matters.
Control first impressions, and the offer that seals the deal.
Create dynamic offer letters that reflect the full value of your compensation packages. Aeqium makes it easy to deliver engaging, interactive offers that help candidates understand equity, salary, and benefits with confidence.
The Ultimate Guide to Compensation Planning Software
What is Compensation Planning Software?
Compensation planning software is a digital tool that helps HR and finance teams manage salary structures, merit increases, bonuses, equity grants, and overall employee compensation strategies. These solutions replace outdated spreadsheets and manual processes, enabling data-driven decisions and error-free compensation cycles.
With businesses increasingly adopting total rewards strategies, companies need advanced tools to maintain pay equity, internal fairness, and competitive compensation structures. Aeqium is designed to eliminate spreadsheet chaos, streamline workflows, and provide deep insights into your compensation planning process.
Why Businesses Need a Dedicated Compensation Planning Tool
Managing employee compensation manually can lead to errors, inefficiencies, and compliance risks. Here are the biggest challenges HR teams face without modern compensation planning software:
- Spreadsheet Overload & Errors
- Traditional Excel-based compensation planning is prone to human errors, copy-paste mistakes, and version control issues. Aeqium replaces spreadsheets with a secure, automated, and real-time platform that eliminates data silos.
- Lack of Visibility Across Teams
- HR, finance, and department managers need real-time access to compensation data. Compensation planning software ensures that all stakeholders have controlled visibility, reducing disjointed decision-making.
- Compliance & Pay Equity Challenges
- Maintaining pay transparency and compliance with laws like the Equal Pay Act (EPA) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is crucial. Aeqium provides automated audits and insights to help ensure internal pay fairness and legal compliance.
- Merit & Bonus Budget Allocation Issues
- Without software, companies struggle to allocate merit increases and performance-based bonuses efficiently. Aeqium’s budgeting tools help businesses optimize their merit cycles, ensuring fair and data-backed compensation adjustments.
Essential Capabilities of Modern Compensation Management Systems
The best compensation planning tools offer automation, analytics, and seamless integrations. Here’s what to look for:
- Compensation Cycle Management
- Automates merit increase and bonus cycles
- Provides customizable workflows for approvals
- Ensures visibility and tracking at every stage
- Compensation Bands & Salary Structures
- Creates pay bands based on industry benchmarks
- Helps prevent pay compression and inequality
- Enables dynamic salary adjustments for promotions
- Compensation Insights & Analytics
- Tracks salary trends, bonus allocations, and equity grants
- Helps ensure fair pay practices and compliance
- Offers real-time data visualization for leadership teams
- Employee Portal for Transparency
- Allows employees to view their total rewards package
- Improves engagement and trust in compensation decisions
- Provides a self-service dashboard for pay-related queries
- Integration with HR & Payroll Systems
- Connects seamlessly with HRIS (e.g., Workday, SAP, UKG)
- Syncs with payroll, performance reviews, and equity management tools
- Reduces administrative burden for HR and finance teams
Evaluation Criteria for Total Rewards Software Selection
Selecting the right tool depends on your company size, compensation complexity, and existing HR tech stack. Here’s what to consider:
- Scalability & Flexibility
- Can the platform scale with your growing workforce?
- Does it support global compensation structures?
- User-Friendliness
- Is the software intuitive for HR teams and managers?
- Does it require extensive training or IT support?
- Integration Capabilities
- Can it connect with existing HRIS, payroll, and equity tools?
- Does it provide API access for custom integrations?
- Security & Compliance
- Does it meet data security standards (SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, etc.)?
- How does it handle pay equity audits and compliance reporting?
Results from Leading People Teams
Customer Case Studies
See how IFS replaced a complex web of spreadsheets with live audit trails and self-serve workflows, giving their team control over logic, reporting, and real-time changes across regions.
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See how Braze helps managers make smarter, data-backed compensation recommendations—improving pay decisions, fairness, and transparency.
See how Hopper reduced compensation cycle time by 50%, cut errors by 90%, and achieved a 92% satisfaction rating from line managers with Aeqium.
Discover how Front took a collaborative, proactive approach to compensation management with Aeqium—streamlining processes and improving pay decisions.
See how NEXT Insurance made compensation planning more efficient and intuitive, reducing manual work, improving accuracy, and streamlining decisions.
People Teams Love Aeqium
Aeqium absolutely has a positive ROI for dbt Labs. We can easily customize it to match every iteration of our comp program, and it helps us and our managers make more thoughtful comp decisions. It’s made my life easier and is a big “W” for our people team.
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Aeqium was a no-brainer. It costs us less than half of what we were being charged by Pave. It's easier to configure, it's easier for our managers to use, and our leadership team raves about it.
Aeqium has been instrumental in advancing our team's understanding of total compensation and has become the center of gravity for all things comp at WHOOP.
Other platforms want to fit you into a box and say, ‘this is how you should be doing it.’ but with Aeqium, we were in the driver's seat and could tell the tool how we wanted things to look.
Our compensation review ran so smoothly with Aeqium. Our people team, managers, and leadership found it very simple to use. Our CTO says it’s one of the easiest systems he’s ever used, especially for HR tools.
We have far fewer questions about the process and more of a focus on applying the compensation philosophy for their employees, which is a marked difference from previous cycles. Our managers estimate they complete their reviews in half the time and that there are 90% fewer errors in the data.
Aeqium absolutely has a positive ROI for dbt Labs. We can easily customize it to match every iteration of our comp program, and it helps us and our managers make more thoughtful comp decisions. It’s made my life easier and is a big “W” for our people team.
Aeqium was a no-brainer. It costs us less than half of what we were being charged by Pave. It's easier to configure, it's easier for our managers to use, and our leadership team raves about it.
Aeqium has been instrumental in advancing our team's understanding of total compensation and has become the center of gravity for all things comp at WHOOP.
Other platforms want to fit you into a box and say, ‘this is how you should be doing it.’ but with Aeqium, we were in the driver's seat and could tell the tool how we wanted things to look.
Our compensation review ran so smoothly with Aeqium. Our people team, managers, and leadership found it very simple to use. Our CTO says it’s one of the easiest systems he’s ever used, especially for HR tools.
We have far fewer questions about the process and more of a focus on applying the compensation philosophy for their employees, which is a marked difference from previous cycles. Our managers estimate they complete their reviews in half the time and that there are 90% fewer errors in the data.
Aeqium absolutely has a positive ROI for dbt Labs. We can easily customize it to match every iteration of our comp program, and it helps us and our managers make more thoughtful comp decisions. It’s made my life easier and is a big “W” for our people team.
Aeqium was a no-brainer. It costs us less than half of what we were being charged by Pave. It's easier to configure, it's easier for our managers to use, and our leadership team raves about it.
Aeqium has been instrumental in advancing our team's understanding of total compensation and has become the center of gravity for all things comp at WHOOP.
Other platforms want to fit you into a box and say, ‘this is how you should be doing it.’ but with Aeqium, we were in the driver's seat and could tell the tool how we wanted things to look.
Our compensation review ran so smoothly with Aeqium. Our people team, managers, and leadership found it very simple to use. Our CTO says it’s one of the easiest systems he’s ever used, especially for HR tools.
We have far fewer questions about the process and more of a focus on applying the compensation philosophy for their employees, which is a marked difference from previous cycles. Our managers estimate they complete their reviews in half the time and that there are 90% fewer errors in the data.
Aeqium significantly reduced the risk, lost time, and frustration that came from running our compensation planning. It's been a true game-changer for us at Braze.
Aeqium is highly configurable and simple for admins and users. We reviewed other tools where you’d need to pay extra for a contractor to configure them. We wanted to handle the setup ourselves but have help when we needed it, and Aeqium made that easy.
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I love how configurable Aeqium is. It gives me the power to do anything I need to set up our cycle and match our process, and I love that I can make changes at any time.
Aeqium saves us hours of work for our HR and finance departments, and it gives us the flexibility we need to feel completely in control. We're not forced into a certain way of doing things just because that's how the product was built.
Aeqium has been really flexible in meeting our needs for our compensation cycles. It’s highly customizable, the configurations are easy for us to manage on our own, and customer service has been really, really excellent.
Aeqium has completely changed the way we do comp at Braze. It gives us a data-forward approach where managers feel confident about their recommendations and department heads can truly analyze the decisions being made. We have a very nuanced total rewards program, so Aeqium’s flexibility is key.
Aeqium significantly reduced the risk, lost time, and frustration that came from running our compensation planning. It's been a true game-changer for us at Braze.
Aeqium is highly configurable and simple for admins and users. We reviewed other tools where you’d need to pay extra for a contractor to configure them. We wanted to handle the setup ourselves but have help when we needed it, and Aeqium made that easy.
I love how configurable Aeqium is. It gives me the power to do anything I need to set up our cycle and match our process, and I love that I can make changes at any time.
Aeqium saves us hours of work for our HR and finance departments, and it gives us the flexibility we need to feel completely in control. We're not forced into a certain way of doing things just because that's how the product was built.
Aeqium has been really flexible in meeting our needs for our compensation cycles. It’s highly customizable, the configurations are easy for us to manage on our own, and customer service has been really, really excellent.
Aeqium has completely changed the way we do comp at Braze. It gives us a data-forward approach where managers feel confident about their recommendations and department heads can truly analyze the decisions being made. We have a very nuanced total rewards program, so Aeqium’s flexibility is key.
Aeqium significantly reduced the risk, lost time, and frustration that came from running our compensation planning. It's been a true game-changer for us at Braze.
Aeqium is highly configurable and simple for admins and users. We reviewed other tools where you’d need to pay extra for a contractor to configure them. We wanted to handle the setup ourselves but have help when we needed it, and Aeqium made that easy.
I love how configurable Aeqium is. It gives me the power to do anything I need to set up our cycle and match our process, and I love that I can make changes at any time.
Aeqium saves us hours of work for our HR and finance departments, and it gives us the flexibility we need to feel completely in control. We're not forced into a certain way of doing things just because that's how the product was built.
Aeqium has been really flexible in meeting our needs for our compensation cycles. It’s highly customizable, the configurations are easy for us to manage on our own, and customer service has been really, really excellent.
Aeqium has completely changed the way we do comp at Braze. It gives us a data-forward approach where managers feel confident about their recommendations and department heads can truly analyze the decisions being made. We have a very nuanced total rewards program, so Aeqium’s flexibility is key.
One-click integrations with your HR tech stack
Automatically centralize the data you need to make the best compensation decisions in one place. Aeqium integrates with your HR tools to centralize salary, equity, performance data, and more so you can make data-backed compensation decisions for every employee.
"Aeqium's setup was easier than anything I've experienced."
Frequently Asked Questions
Compensation planning software is a digital tool that helps organizations streamline, automate, and optimize employee compensation processes. It enables teams to manage salaries, bonuses, equity, and benefits, ensuring fair and strategic pay decisions. By integrating with HR and payroll systems, it improves budget planning, pay equity, and employee retention while reducing manual work.
Choose software that aligns with your company’s unique compensation process. Key factors include customization, integrations, automation, security, and reporting. Ensure it supports self-service adjustments, streamlines approvals, and integrates with your HR tech stack. Always request a demo tailored to your workflow and submit an RFP to confirm it meets your needs.
Aeqium will match your exact compensation planning process. You’ll choose the data sources, review chains, custom calculations, budget distribution methods, and more. You can make changes yourself anytime or ask your dedicated customer success manager for support.
Yes! Aeqium is designed to scale with your organization and can handle as many admins, managers, and employees as you need.
Aeqium directly integrates with most HRIS, ATS, and Equity Management Systems. You can also upload data from any custom source via CSV. Need a custom integration? Ask our team, and we’ll let you know how we can do it.
The technical implementation takes just a few hours. The onboarding process, which includes uploading pay bands, user training, and setting goals, takes four to six weeks on average. Tell us when your next cycle needs to run, and we’ll make it happen.
We offer extensive support and training that includes onboarding, hands-on assistance as needed, Slack, email, and call communication, product documentation, and standing meetings on your schedule.
We undergo regular external audits and penetration tests, and we are proud to maintain AICPA SOC 2 Type 2 certification.
Take control of your
compensation planning.
We'll configure your complete compensation process in Aeqium at no charge when you request a demo. Yes, really. Free.
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