Barley
Make proactive, data-driven compensation decisions with clarity and equity.
Executive Summary
Barley, now integrated into the Workleap platform, is a comprehensive compensation management solution. It empowers HR and Total Rewards teams to make informed and proactive pay decisions by centralizing pay band management, compensation reviews, benchmarking, and analytics. Targeting small-to-medium-sized businesses and mid-market firms, Barley streamlines compensation processes, helps attract and retain talent, reduces turnover, and ensures compliance with pay equity mandates, leveraging Workleap's AI capabilities for enhanced insights and efficiency.
Use Cases
- Automating and streamlining compensation review cycles to save time and eliminate manual processes.
- Conducting comprehensive pay equity analyses to identify and resolve pay gaps, ensuring fair compensation practices.
- Attracting and retaining top talent by offering competitive and transparent compensation packages.
- Managing and structuring global pay bands, including support for geographic pay zones and multiple currencies.
- Controlling compensation spend by allocating budgets down to departmental levels and flagging outliers.
- Integrating performance data with compensation decisions to reward employees based on their contributions.
Features
Visibility
- Real-time Compensation Dashboard: Provides a unified, real-time view of compensation data, highlighting risks and offering immediate insights.
- Pay Equity Analysis: Proactively identifies and analyzes pay gaps and distribution to ensure fair and equitable compensation practices.
- Salary Band Management: Seamlessly manage, structure, and share salary bands, including support for global pay and geographic pay zones.
- Total Rewards Visibility: Effectively communicates the value of total rewards, aligning compensation strategy with overall talent strategy.
- Compa-ratio & Pay Compression Tracking: Monitors key metrics like compa-ratio and pay compression to assess the health and fairness of the compensation program.
Intelligence
- AI-Powered Compensation Summaries: Generates intelligent summaries for flexible review cycles and comprehensive compensation planning, streamlining decision-making.
- Data-Driven Risk Flagging: Automatically flags potential pay issues and risks within the compensation data, enabling proactive intervention.
- Compensation Review Automation: Automates and streamlines compensation review (merit cycles) processes, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency.
- Budget Forecasting & Sandbox Mode: Allows setting multiple budget pools, forecasting spend, and running 'sandbox' scenarios for compensation reviews before implementation.
- Manager Pay Guideline Empowerment: Empowers managers with clear pay guidelines and autonomy to make fair pay decisions aligned with organizational budgets.
Support
- Help Center & Resource Library: Access to a comprehensive help center, blog, and resource library for self-service support and best practices.
- Customer Support Channels: Provides access to customer support via email and potentially chat, typical for SaaS platforms.
- Workleap Community: Engage with other users and experts within the Workleap community for shared knowledge and peer support.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-native SaaS
- Deployment
- Cloud/SaaS
- Authentication
- SSO, SAML 2.0, MFA
- API Available
- Yes
- MCP Server
- No
Infrastructure
- Azure
AI/ML Stack
- Machine Learning
- NLP
Integrations
- BambooHR
- Gusto
- Carta
Security & Compliance
Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR
Encryption: AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
Data Residency:
Pricing
- Model
- Per user/month, Tiered subscription
- Starting Price
- Starting at $5/user/month
- Target Customer
- SMB, Mid-Market
- Contract Type
- Annual (common for SaaS, not explicitly stated)
- Free Trial
- No (credit card required)
About Barley
Barley is a compensation management solution that helps companies make smart and proactive compensation decisions by bringing clarity, fairness, and proactiveness to compensation. Now a Workleap company, it offers a holistic platform to manage pay bands, compensation reviews, and total rewards.