Everything HR needs to manage compensation and payroll
Manage pay structures, salary reviews and transparency requirements in one system, while keeping data aligned across regions.
Control all your pay processes
Pay is often split between HR, finance and local payroll systems. Sympa structures pay decisions and lets approved changes flow reliably to payroll, supporting accuracy and compliance.
- Manage pay data: Maintain a structured view of salaries, bonuses and benefits in one place.
- Sync with payroll providers: Connect to 40+ payroll providers and send 60+ data points, reducing manual updates.
- Support complex organisations: Built for blue-collar, white-collar and global companies with multiple payroll systems.
- Run transparent salary reviews: Streamline fixed and percentage-based raises with full visibility and control.
- Prepare for pay transparency: Build equivalent-work groups, identify pay gaps and document corrective actions.
Payroll that scales across the Nordics and beyond
Sympa offers one of the most extensive payroll integration networks in Europe, connecting to providers in 40+ countries. Whether you operate with one global payroll partner or multiple local providers per subsidiary, Sympa keeps your data aligned.
Built for everyday pay decisions
Compensation decisions involve multiple stakeholders, changing regulations and local payroll requirements. Sympa helps you handle all pay processes with confidence.
Connect Sympa with local and global payroll providers to automate data transfers and reduce manual errors.
Connect each entity to its preferred local payroll system while maintaining one central HR source of truth.
Use Sympa’s Salary Review tool to manage proposals, approvals and budgets in one controlled process, with full visibility into costs and decisions.
Define equivalent-work groups, identify unexplained pay gaps and plan corrective actions directly in your HR system.
How compensation and payroll works
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Maintain structured salary data
Store and manage salaries, benefits and compensation details in one HR system.
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Sync with payroll providers
Automate payroll data flows through standardised integrations across countries.
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Run salary review processes
Define frameworks, gather manager input and approve changes with full visibility.
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Comply with the EU Pay Transparency Directive
Group employees by equivalent work and review pay distributions.
Specialised pay tools in Sympa
Structured and transparent salary reviews
Sympa’s Salary Review tool connects HR and managers in one controlled process, ensuring every pay decision is fair, traceable and aligned with company guidelines.
- Propose percentage or fixed increases within defined frameworks
- Support multi-currency salary reviews
- Maintain a clear audit trail for compliance and reporting
- Align salary decisions with pay transparency preparation
Prepare for pay transparency directly in your HR system
Sympa’s Pay Transparency tool helps you build equivalent-work groups, analyse salary ranges and identify unexplained pay gaps ahead of the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
From June 2026, employers must show how pay is determined and address unjustified differences. Sympa centralises your salary data and supports structured analysis, so preparation starts early.
Read more"We are constantly striving to streamline our processes and wanted to be able to add new functions quickly and easily. That’s why Sympa is such a good match for us – once we’ve identified a need, we can make the necessary changes ourselves, or get help from Sympa if we need to."
Caroline Gestrup
HR Manager, Forex
"I’ll say this: we cannot live without our HR system. It’s the foundation for all other development. Having an agile and easily adaptable HR solution, that can work across multiple countries and be flexible enough to reflect new ways of working, has been essential."
Morten Jakobi
EVP, People and Culture, Dustin
"Our industry sees a large number of business transfers and consequently a high staff turnover. This means that our managers spend a lot of their time on drafting, signing and sending out contracts and documents. This is why we needed a flexible HR system that fits our business model."
Kristine Dyring
People & Culture Partner, Compass Group