Does Deel Do UK Payroll?
The short answer
Yes — Deel can run UK payroll, through its managed payroll service, which is a paid add-on at roughly $29 per employee per month on top of its HR product. Mellow also runs UK payroll, natively, and includes it in its £8 per employee per month Professional tier, with Real Time Information submitted directly to HMRC.
How Deel handles UK payroll
Deel offers UK payroll as part of its managed, multi-country payroll service. Deel coordinates the payroll, applies UK rules, and handles filing as part of that managed model. It is a reasonable option, particularly for a business that wants one vendor to manage payroll across several countries at once.
It is priced as a managed service: the managed payroll add-on sits on top of Deel's HR product, at around $29 per employee per month.
How Mellow handles UK payroll
Mellow calculates UK payroll natively. It works out PAYE income tax and National Insurance to the penny, applies student loan and postgraduate loan plans, runs pension auto-enrolment assessment, and produces payslips, P60s, and BACS files. It then submits Real Time Information — the Full Payment Submission and Employer Payment Summary — directly to HMRC via GovTalk XML.
UK payroll is included in Mellow's Professional tier at £8 per employee per month, which also includes the rest of the HR platform.
The practical difference
Deel's UK payroll is a managed service, priced accordingly, and best suited to businesses running payroll across many countries who want it managed for them. Mellow's UK payroll is software, included in an all-inclusive tier, best suited to businesses with their own finance or payroll function who want native UK depth and direct HMRC submission.
For a business whose workforce is mostly in the UK, Mellow is typically both the better fit and the lower cost. For a business with a genuinely global, many-country payroll operation, Deel's managed model may justify its price.