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SD Worx - Payroll Services
Vendor Analysis
published on Sep 02, 2025
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Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes SD Worx's offerings and capabilities in Payroll Services
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s Payroll Services profile on SD Worx is a comprehensive assessment of SD Worx’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of Payroll Services and identifying vendor suitability for Payroll Services RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the Payroll Services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of SD Worx’s Payroll Services offerings, capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, challenges, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base, including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization, including the location of delivery centers.
Key Findings & Highlights:
SD Worx, a comprehensive HR service provider dedicated to HR services is headquartered in Belgium, with capabilities across 150 countries and deep European roots. SD Worx is one of the largest HR providers in Europe, with a local presence in 26 European countries, ~5.7m employees served and ~85k clients supported. SD Worx conducts business through two primary segments:
- People Solutions: payroll, expenses, compensation and benefits, recruitment and workforce management, HR technology services, SAP SuccessFactors consulting, and automation
- Staffing and Career Solutions: staffing, recruiting, and consulting.
SD Worx offers payroll services across ~150 countries with locally-based in-country SD Worx payroll teams for 26 European countries, and owns payroll software in 20 European countries. Its three payroll service models (with estimated revenue share) are:
- Comprehensive (5%): managed payroll service, including data maintenance and contact center
- Managed (75%): payroll management and processing with supporting payroll platform
- SaaS (10%): payroll platform only.
SD Worx offers a range of proprietary payroll technologies and core HR technologies across the countries it supports. In addition to its proprietary technology, it has capability to support SAP solutions, its SD Worx SAP solutions division comprises ~850 SAP consultants, offering consulting, implementation services, application support, and payroll Outsourcing Services.