Offshore payroll for crews who haven't touched dry land in three weeks
PelagicPay solves the only payroll problem that can get you sued in four countries simultaneously. It tracks where your vessel physically is, applies the correct jurisdiction's labor law in real time, and handles catch-share commissions without a single spreadsheet. Nobody else built this because nobody else understood the problem well enough.
- Automatic Jones Act compliance with zero manual configuration required
- Real-time AIS vessel position sync resolves jurisdiction across 194 maritime zones
- Catch-share commission engine calculates split structures down to the individual crew member
- Direct integration with NOAA catch reporting APIs — no double entry, ever
- Tax withholding that knows the difference between a twelve-mile limit and an EEZ
Stripe Connect, Gusto, AIS Live, MarineTraffic, NOAA FishOnline, QuickBooks Nautical, OceanSync, TidalVault, Plaid, PelagicERP, FleetBase, CrewID
PelagicPay runs as a set of event-driven microservices behind an NGINX gateway, with each vessel treated as an isolated payroll context that forks on position updates from the AIS stream. Jurisdictional resolution is handled by a rules engine persisted in MongoDB, which I chose because the compliance document structure is deeply nested and relational databases were genuinely making me insane. A Redis layer handles long-term commission ledger state between pay periods so nothing ever has to be recalculated from scratch. The whole thing deploys to a single Kubernetes cluster because I am one person and I am not running twelve servers.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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