ACH Transactions1

Bank Accounts5

Companies17

Company Attachment4

Company Benefits13

Company Forms4

Contractor Documents4

Contractor Forms4

Contractor Payment Groups8

Contractor Payment Method4

Contractor Payments9

Contractors14

Departments7

Earning Types4

Employee Addresses10

Employee Benefits11

Employee Employments10

Employee Forms5

Employee Payment Method6

Employee Tax Setup4

Employees13

Events1

External Payrolls9

Federal Tax Details2

Garnishments5

Generated Documents1

Holiday Pay Policies7

I-9 Verification7

Industry Selection2

Information Requests1

Introspection2

Invoices1

Jobs and Compensations10

Locations5

Member Portal Invitations6

Notifications2

Pay Schedules9

Payment Configs2

Payroll Cancellations2

Payroll Digests2

Payrolls20

People Batches2

Recovery Cases2

Reimbursements5

Reports7

Salary Estimates5

Signatories5

Tax Requirements3

Time Off Policies9

Time Off Requests9

Webhooks8

Wire In Requests3

Jobs and Compensations

Delete a compensation

Compensations contain information on how much is paid out for a job. Jobs may have many compensations, but only one that is active. The current compensation is the one with the most recent effective_date. This endpoint deletes a compensation for a job that hasn't been processed on payroll.

Webhooks

employee_job_compensation.destroyed: Fires when a compensation is successfully deleted

scope: compensations:write

delete/v1/compensations/{compensation_id}

Path parameters

compensation_idstring required

The UUID of the compensation

Headers

X-Gusto-API-Version'2026-06-15'

Determines the date-based API version associated with your API call. If none is provided, your application's minimum API version is used.

Response

No Content

Changes

No recorded changes to this endpoint across all 1 revision of this API.