Trusaic Review: Pay Equity Audits and ACA Reporting for Large Employers

Trusaic fits large and multinational employers facing pay equity legal exposure or EU Pay Transparency Directive reporting, and US Applicable Large Employers with 50+ full-time employees that need ACA reporting and penalty defense. Alaska Airlines is among the customers quoted on its site.

It is a weak fit for a 150-person startup that wants to spot-check pay gaps once a year; the gap views inside Ravio or a planning tool are enough there. It is also unnecessary for companies below the ACA's 50 full-time employee threshold, which have no 1095-C filing obligation.

Trusaic stands out for pairing a privileged, statistical pay equity methodology with a remediation engine: R.O.S.A. runs hundreds of simulations to find the lowest-cost adjustments that close gaps. No other tool in this comparison also handles ACA 1095-C filing and IRS penalty response for the same HR team.

The buying group usually includes total rewards, legal and sometimes benefits. Trusaic lists SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification plus GDPR and CCPA compliance, and integrations with Workday (including Pay Decisions), SAP, UKG and ADP.

Expect a consultative sale: a scoping call, a data request and a proposal that separates software from analyst and data science services. Ask for those two lines priced separately so renewals can be compared year to year.

A single-country gender audit is a smaller engagement than a multi-country analysis across gender, race, age and disability with jurisdiction-specific reports. Regulatory Pay Transparency Reporting covers 50+ jurisdictions, and EU employers will need the Directive solution on top of the core audit.

Essential suits Applicable Large Employers with clean data that only need forms prepared and filed. Complete suits employers with variable-hour staff or past IRS penalty letters, since it adds monthly tracking, Letter 226J response and audit defense. Trusaic says it has never lost an audit and has helped reduce more than $1 billion in proposed employer shared responsibility assessments.

PayParity analyses pay across gender, race, age, disability and other characteristics in one statistical model, identifies significant gaps and their root causes, and produces explainable results.

Salary Range Finder sets ranges at the time of hire, TrueTransparency communicates pay equity progress to stakeholders, and Trusaic AI adds an agentic layer on the same methodology.

ACA Complete and ACA Essential cover employer health coverage reporting for Applicable Large Employers, with bi-directional HRIS integrations such as Workday and UKG.

Trusaic also sells TaxAdvantage, a service for finding employer tax credits. Its blog covers the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), which rewards hiring from certain groups. It is a minor part of the product line but can be bundled into an ACA relationship.