Salary Hero Earned Wage Access Platform

Salary Hero is a financial health platform for employers and their employees, with its office in Bangkok, Thailand. It addresses cash-flow gaps between paydays by letting workers draw wages they have already earned, and adds budgeting, savings and financial education so that employers can offer a financial wellbeing benefit.

The Salary On Demand product connects to employer payroll and HR systems without changing existing payroll processes. Employees access earned pay through a mobile app, with budgeting tools, a savings account offered through a partner, and educational content. The company states that more than 200 organizations use the platform and that it connects to over 50 HR and payroll platforms.

• Salary On Demand: employees access earned wages before payday without loan underwriting or interest.
• Budgeting: spending tracking, personalized insights and savings goals in the app.
• Savings: a savings account offered through a partner, advertised with a 3% interest rate.
• Financial education: resources on debt management and investing.
• Payroll integration: connects to 50+ HR and payroll platforms such as SAP, Oracle and Workday.
• Employer tools: turnover cost calculator and rollout that needs no payroll change.

Vietnamese retail, F&B and manufacturing employers with large hourly workforces could add an earned wage access benefit to reduce turnover. HR teams in multinational companies in Vietnam could pair it with existing HR and payroll platforms without changing payroll runs.

Employers can offer an earned wage access benefit with no mandatory setup or recurring fees, and without changing existing payroll systems. The company reports that 85% of staff feel better financially and a 15% retention uplift among users. Employees receive budgeting, savings and education tools alongside early access to earned pay, with no loan underwriting or interest.

Earned wage access is spreading across Southeast Asia as employers use it to retain hourly and frontline staff and to reduce reliance on informal loans. Regional providers are moving from single-country products to multi-country rollouts, and Salary Hero's own expansion from Thailand into Malaysia reflects this pattern.

Based in Bangkok, Thailand. Raised a US$7.6 million Series A led by Cento Ventures in 2026, with Kairous Capital and M Venture Partners participating; operations in Malaysia began in Q2 2026. Founded by Prabhav Rakhra and Jonathan Nohr; ISO 27001:2022 certified.