Deel
San Francisco, CA · founded 2019
Deel is a global payroll, HR and employer-of-record platform founded in 2019 by MIT graduates Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang to let companies hire employees and contractors across borders. It is aggressively remote and fully distributed — a 'work-from-anywhere' company with no traditional headquarters — and the culture it advertises is fast, flat and high-accountability, explicitly warning that people who want 'a stable and highly predictable work week' will not be a fit. The honest caveat is that Deel has been a magnet for legal drama: a 2025 corporate-espionage fight with rival Rippling, an anti-money-laundering RICO suit (dismissed August 2025), and a DOJ criminal inquiry opened in January 2026 into the spying allegations. It suits people who thrive in a high-speed, ship-first, distributed environment and can tolerate a company that is frequently in the headlines.
see the full file on Deeldocumented benefits (9)
| Fully remote roles | yes |
|---|---|
| Median filed wage | $160,000 |
| Life insurance | yes |
| Dental | yes |
| Vision | yes |
| Disability | yes |
| Last round | $1,529,237 |
| Last round closed | 2024-12-27 |
| Total raised | $637,724,042 |
what Deel pays
Median of 17 certified wages filed with the US Department of Labor: $160,000.
Half of Deel's certified filings fall between $129,667 and $204,000.
| role | median | filings | range |
|---|---|---|---|
| head of marketing | $180,000 | 2 filings |
Source: US Department of Labor, FY2025 Q4. Read 2026-07-27.
notable perks
- Work-from-anywhere by default — a fully distributed team spread across 80+ countries with no traditional HQ requirement
the legal floor where they are
Set by law, not by Deel. It applies to every employer in CA.
| IVF cycles the state covers | California requires IVF from 1 January 2026, and only from large employers. SB 729 (2024) rewrote Health and Safety Code § 1374.55 so that a large group health care service plan contract 'issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, shall provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility services, including a maximum of three completed oocyte retrievals with unlimited embryo transfers', following ASRM guidelines and using single embryo transfer where medically appropriate. Large group means 100 or more employees. Small group plans need only be OFFERED the coverage rather than provide it, religious employers are excluded, Medi-Cal managed care is exempt, and CalPERS plans are delayed to 1 July 2027. The original 1 July 2025 date was pushed back a budget trailer bill, AB 116 (2025). THE LIMIT THAT DECIDES WHETHER THIS REACHES YOU: a state insurance mandate binds only fully insured plans. A self-funded employer plan is governed federally under ERISA and is preempted, and KFF's 2025 employer survey puts 67% of covered workers — 80% at firms of 200 or more — in a self-funded plan. At most large California employers this law therefore does not apply, and the fertility benefit on the page is the company's own choice. (Senate Bill 729 (2024), which repealed and added Section 1374.55 of the Health and Safety Code and amended Section 10119.6 of the Insurance Code; the operative date was moved from 1 July 2025 to 1 January 2026 by Assembly Bill 116 (2025).) |
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| Adoption leave the law gives | 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period on the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. There is no federal paid adoption leave. (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(B) and 2612(c); eligibility at 29 U.S.C. 2611(2) and (4). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code.) |
| Pay when you are ill | No federal law requires any paid sick leave. The FLSA does not require payment for time not worked, and the FMLA gives 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period for a serious health condition, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. Any paid sick time comes from a state or city law, or from the employer's own choice. (Fair Labor Standards Act, per the Department of Labor's statement on payment for time not worked; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(D) and 2612(c). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code on govinfo.gov.) |
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