Introducing BambooHR® Elite
Elevate your HR experience with groundbreaking features, powerful data insights, and premium support options designed to help your team excel.
Discover the new BambooHR Elite plan
BambooHR Elite includes everything in BambooHR® Pro, plus:
Groundbreaking HR features for innovative organizations like yours
Level up your HR team with powerful new features, actionable benchmarks, game-changing compensation tools, and premium, award-winning customer support.
HR Benchmarks
Compare with confidence. Go beyond guesswork to understand your strengths, identify opportunities for growth, and proactively address proactively address turnover, retention, wellness, diversity, employee satisfaction, and more. Filter anonymized benchmarks by industry and employee count for accurate, actionable insights to refine your company’s goals and optimize your strategies.
Compensation Benchmarking
Streamline your compensation strategy with integrated, reliable Mercer data—available right in BambooHR. Make data-driven decisions about pay scales and offer fair, competitive compensation packages to attract and retain top talent. Show your people just how much you value them with equitable and strategic compensation that beats the competition.
Compensation Planning
Get everything you need to manage compensation more easily. Compensation Management tools in BambooHR help you streamline budget creation, workflow tracking, and approvals for a seamless process from benchmarking to payroll. With customizable Levels and Bands and tools for managing communication at every step of the process, you can confidently create compensation strategies that align with your organization’s goals.
Custom Dashboards & Analytics
Gain clarity that drives action. Get true visibility into your workforce with custom dashboards that answer your most pressing questions at a glance. Use HR Business Intelligence tools to get proactive insights from your live data to securely highlight areas that need attention or opportunities to make a big impact in your organization, so you can take meaningful action with confidence.
Premium Services
Get the most from BambooHR Elite with advanced implementation and onboarding support, a free annual business review, one-on-one training for new admins, an annual Professional Services credit, and exclusive access to valuable events.
See your data in a whole new way with BambooHR Elite
See the Elite difference
No matter what HR looks like for you, make the most of your HR resources with BambooHR.
HR Intelligence
Ask BambooHR, Company Similarity...
New!
Ask BambooHR
Ask BambooHR® is your AI-powered sidekick, handling routine employee questions about policy, benefits, and more, so you can focus on the bigger picture.
Company Similarity Comparison
Benchmark your company against organizations of a similar size, industry, and growth stage.
AI-Powered Insights
Leverage the power of AI to categorize eNPS® free responses into common themes.
HR Data & Reporting
Custom Tab Builder, New Report Builder,...
New features!
Custom Tab Builder
Add custom tabs, tables, and fields to the employee record, so you can track your unique data with ease.
New Report Builder
Build custom reports in seconds and preview as you build with our new drag-and-drop report builder.
Dashboards
Visualize key HR metrics, enabling efficient analysis and data-driven decision making.
Hiring & Onboarding
Job Pipelines, Automated Disqualifying...
New features!
Job Pipelines
Customize your pipeline funnel, status, and triggers to match the needs of any role you’re looking to fill.
Automated Disqualifying Questions & Emails
Trigger automatic disqualification based on responses to pre-determined questions.
Automated Emails
Automatically send templates emails based on key triggers during the hiring process.
Time Off & Benefits Tracking
PTO and Benefits Tracking
Employee Experience
Authentic feedback that fuels growth
New features!
AI-Powered Insights
Leverage the power of AI to categorize eNPS free responses into common themes.
Performance Management
360º Feedback, 1:1s, Custom Feedback
New!
360º Review Cycles
Capture a comprehensive view of employee performance with flexible, customizable assessments and feedback.
1:1s
Enable regular one-on-one meetings through scheduling, note-keeping, and agenda-tracking to keep managers and employees aligned.
Instant Reporting
Quickly understand company-wide and employee-specific performance.
Employee Community
Centralized communication hub..
New!
Engage employees across your organization with a centralized communication hub for announcements, updates, and interest groups.
Compensation Management
Compensation Planning, Salary Benchmarking...
New!
Compensation Planning, Salary Benchmarking, Band Management, Pay Range Visualization, and Total Rewards
Custom Dashboards & Analytics
Customizable Dashboards, Advanced...
New!
Customizable Dashboards, Advanced Visualization, and Curated Data Insights
HR Benchmarks
HR Benchmark Data: Turnover...
New!
Get exclusive HR benchmark data for turnover, age, gender, eNPS, employee wellbeing, and more.
Premium Services
Premium Services, Business Reviews...
Exclusive to Elite!
Access premium services, including:
- Data integrity services (2 hours per year)
- New administrator training (2 sessions per year)
- Dedicated customer support
- Exclusive insider webinars
BambooHR Marketplace
150+ pre-built integrations
Frequently Asked Questions
What is BambooHR Elite?
BambooHR Elite is our most advanced plan, offering an integrated suite of sophisticated tools for compensation management, HR benchmarking, and custom data visualization, all combined with premium support services. It's designed to help strategic HR leaders unlock "people intelligence" and elevate HR's impact on the business.
Who is BambooHR Elite for?
Elite is designed for strategic HR leaders and teams that need cutting-edge tools to manage complex talent challenges, drive business results through data, and proactively shape workforce strategy. Click here and one of our representatives will be happy to assist you!
How is BambooHR Elite different from the Pro or Core packages?
While Core focuses on foundational HR automation and Pro enhances the employee experience, Elite builds upon these by adding our most advanced capabilities for strategic HR. This includes comprehensive Compensation Management, real-time HR Benchmarks against peer companies, highly Customizable Dashboards & Visualizations for deep data exploration, and dedicated Premium Services.
What are the main features included in BambooHR Elite?
BambooHR Elite includes:
- Compensation Management: Tools for benchmarking (powered by Mercer), managing job levels and pay bands for internal structure, compensation planning (cycle creation, worksheets, budgets, approvals), and Total Rewards statements.
- HR Benchmarks: Real-time comparisons for key HR metrics (like turnover, eNPS, diversity) against AI-powered peer groups.
- Customizable Dashboards & Visualizations: Tailored dashboards and reports based on live BambooHR data to uncover strategic insights.
- Premium Services: Includes advanced implementation, dedicated training, annual business reviews, and more.
What kind of compensation benchmarking data is available in Elite?
BambooHR has partnered with Mercer, a leading name in salary data to provide access to comprehensive job title benchmarks in North America and Canada, plus worldwide tech-industry-specific benchmarks (via Mercer Comtryx). You also have the flexibility to "Bring Your Own Benchmark" data into BambooHR Compensation Management for unique job titles or data sources.
What kind of HR metrics can I benchmark in Elite?
HR Benchmarks in Elite cover a range of key metrics, including total, voluntary, involuntary, regrettable, and non-regrettable turnover; eNPS; gender and age diversity; Employee Wellbeing; years of service; and company growth rate. BambooHR Benchmarks leverages AI-powered peer groups, with the option to manually customize your filters based on factors like industry and company size for more tailored insights.
Can I create my own reports and dashboards in Elite?
Yes! The Custom Dashboards & Analytics feature empowers you with HR Business Intelligence tools, so you can build your own dashboards using a drag-and-drop interface and multiple chart types. You can visualize your live BambooHR data to explore trends and answer specific business questions.
Our customers say it best
"Compensation benchmarking has been an amazing new addition to our toolbox. It’s quick and easy to do. It also allows us to make sure everyone is being paid fairly compared to other positions in our area."
Natalie Allen | Office Coordinator | FreeFlight Systems