Daily payroll is becoming a baseline expectation for full-time teams because it improves cash-flow, reduces financial stress, and can support retention without forcing employees to wait for the end of a pay period.

The operational challenge is delivering daily access to earnings while keeping payroll structured, compliant, and predictable for finance and HR.

Rise solves this by combining global payroll execution with verified employee onboarding, automated compliance workflows, and a daily availability model that keeps the employee experience simple while keeping payroll operations controlled.

For many teams, this is less about novelty and more about helping employees build financial stability and stay aligned with day-to-day obligations.

Key Takeaways

  • Daily payroll works best when it is implemented as a standardized operating model with clear eligibility rules, limits, and reconciliation.
  • A strong daily payroll program depends on a reliable earnings source of truth and a predictable availability cadence employees can trust.
  • The employee experience should be self-serve so payroll admins are not manually configuring payout destinations or collecting documents.
  • Rise offers Everyday Pay, meaning earnings are available daily and arrive midnight GMT on workdays.
  • Done well, daily payroll can support employee compensation outcomes like lower turnover and higher productivity.

How To Offer Daily Payroll To Full-Time Employees With Rise

1) Choose The Right Employment Model For Your Team

Daily payroll for full-time employees runs through an Employer of Record (EOR) setup when you are hiring globally without opening local entities.

With Rise, the employer adds employee details, and Rise handles the employment layer required for compliant payroll execution, including local labor law alignment, required documentation, and payroll setup.

Rise is constantly launching new EOR countries, adds new EOR markets every week, and is targeting 60+ EOR markets by end of 2026.

2) Invite Employees And Let Them Onboard Self-Serve

Rise is designed so the employee completes onboarding inside the platform instead of your team collecting documents and manually configuring payout preferences.

Employees follow the Rise onboarding flow:

  • Receive the email invitation to join Rise and sign up.
  • Select Join as a payee and onboard as an Individual.
  • Complete KYC with a valid government-issued ID.
  • Create a signing passkey.

This establishes the employee’s verified profile so payroll and withdrawals can run cleanly, and supports security across onboarding and payouts.

3) Complete Required Employment Action Items In Rise

Once inside Rise, employees go to Action Items and complete:

  • Health insurance enrollment form
  • Tax declaration form
  • Employment agreement

Rise manages the employment and compliance workflow so required steps are completed as part of employee onboarding, not as scattered external processes that slow scheduling and payroll readiness.

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4) Turn On Daily Availability For Employee Earnings

Rise supports a daily-pay experience where employee earnings are available daily.

For employees, this is straightforward and predictable:

  • Earnings are available daily and arrive midnight GMT on workdays.

This structure functions as earned wage access for full-time teams, helping employees avoid relying on payday loans when timing mismatches occur.

5) Let Employees Configure Direct Deposit Or Manual Withdrawals

Rise keeps payout configuration employee-controlled, which minimizes operational burden on payroll teams and improves financial flexibility for employees managing multiple obligations.

Employees can choose how they want to receive pay:

  • Set up direct deposit, or
  • Withdraw manually any time inside the platform.

To configure payouts, employees:

  • Go to Withdraw → Withdraw Options
  • Add a domestic bank account (local currency) and/or a crypto wallet (multiple options supported)
  • Choose where funds should be sent once available

To set up direct deposit and splits:

  • Navigate to Direct Deposits
  • Allocate different percentages of pay to different accounts
This gives employees more control over how they allocate wages toward bills, savings, and other financial goals, without changing how payroll is funded.

6) Fund Payroll Through USD Or USDC/USDT

On the employer side, funding is clean and standardized.

Rise supports two primary funding rails:

  • USD via bank transfer
  • Stablecoins (USDC/USDT) via crypto wallet

This can support instant financial settlement behavior for modern teams without creating process complexity for employees.

7) Run Payroll With A Predictable Operational Rhythm

With Rise, the goal is to keep daily payroll predictable rather than always-on chaos.

The operational rhythm becomes:

  • Employees complete onboarding and choose payout preferences
  • Employer funds payroll
  • Rise runs payroll per employment and compliance requirements
  • Employees receive daily availability and withdraw via direct deposit or manual withdrawals

For companies competing for talent in markets influenced by the gig economy, this approach can strengthen retention by reducing pay friction while keeping operations disciplined.

8) Benefits Enrollment Runs In Parallel

Daily payroll is only one part of the full-time employee experience.

Rise also supports benefits enrollment:

  • Health insurance is managed through Ease
  • 401(k) is managed through ForUsAll, with enrollment starting one month into using the Rise platform

9) Support And Operations Escalation

If employees need help during onboarding, withdrawals, or benefits setup, Rise support is available at hello@riseworks.io.

Conclusion

Offering daily payroll to full-time employees requires a clear policy, predictable timing, verified onboarding, and a payout experience that does not create manual work for payroll admins.

Rise supports this model by providing daily payroll with availability on workdays, employee self-serve onboarding with KYC and action items, and flexible withdrawals through direct deposit or manual withdrawals.

When teams reduce pay friction, they often see better financial stability for employees and fewer payroll-related distractions, which can improve retention outcomes over time.

If you want to see how Rise can fit your team’s employment model and funding rails, book a demo and we will walk you through the daily payroll setup end-to-end.

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FAQs:

1. What is daily payroll for full-time employees?

Daily payroll is a pay model where employee compensation is made available more frequently, often daily, so full-time employees can access earnings on a predictable cadence instead of waiting for the end of a pay period.

2. How does Rise offer daily payroll to full-time employees?

Rise offers Daily Payroll, meaning employee earnings are available daily and arrive midnight GMT on workdays, with options for direct deposit or manual withdrawals.

3. What do employees need to do to get daily payroll on Rise?

Employees join via an invite, select Join as a payee and onboard as an Individual, complete KYC with a government-issued ID, create a signing passkey, complete required action items, and then configure withdrawal options.

4. Can employees use direct deposit with daily payroll on Rise?

Yes. Employees can set up direct deposit and allocate different percentages of pay to different accounts through the Direct Deposits settings.

5. Can employees withdraw manually with Rise?

Yes. Employees can log into the platform anytime to manually withdraw available funds after adding withdrawal options.

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