Oracle HCM Cloud Services – Licensing and Costs
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM is a comprehensive suite of cloud-based HR applications covering core HR, talent management, payroll, and more. All modules are delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and are licensed via subscription.
Below is a breakdown of the major Oracle HCM Cloud services available globally, with a brief description of each module, how it is licensed, and Oracle’s official list pricing. (All prices are list prices per month unless otherwise noted and typically require a minimum 3-year subscription.)
Core HR – Oracle Global Human Resources Cloud (HCM Base)
Oracle Global Human Resources (Core HR) is the foundation of Oracle’s HCM Cloud. It manages all employee and workforce data, including personal and job information, organizational hierarchies, work structures, absence management, benefits administration, onboarding, and HR process automation.
This core HCM Base Cloud Service includes employee self-service, HR workflows (like Oracle Journeys for guided processes), a workforce directory, and integration capabilities (e.g. payroll interface).
- Licensing: Priced per Hosted Employee (every employee or worker tracked in the system needs a license). A minimum of 1,000 employees is required; the standard term is 3 years. This base service must be purchased before adding any other HCM Cloud modules.
- List Price: $15 per employee per month (list), which equates to $180 per employee per year (minimum ~$180,000/year for 1,000 employees). (For example, 3,000 employees would cost about $540,000 per year at list price.)
Talent Management Cloud Service (Performance, Succession, Career)
The Talent Management Cloud module provides tools for evaluating and developing employees. It includes Performance Management (setting goals and conducting performance reviews), Career Development and Succession Planning (identifying talent pools and planning for future roles), and talent review analytics.
This helps organizations foster employee growth and align talent with business objectives.
- Licensing: Typically licensed per Hosted Named User (each employee or worker for whom these talent tools are enabled). In practice, many organizations license all employees for talent management, but matching the entire workforce is not required. A 1,000 user minimum applies.
- List Price: $10 per employee per month (list price). This covers each licensed user’s core talent management features (performance evaluations, succession, career development, and talent reviews).
Talent Acquisition – Oracle Recruiting Cloud Service
Oracle Recruiting (part of the Talent Acquisition Cloud) is an end-to-end recruitment module for hiring and onboarding. It manages job postings, candidate applications, sourcing, and recruiting analytics.
The module provides a modern applicant tracking system integrated with the Core HR data, enabling data-driven hiring decisions and a seamless onboarding experience.
It supports both internal mobility and external recruiting processes.
- Licensing: Priced per Hosted Employee (usually meaning each employee in the organization, since recruiting is considered an enterprise-wide capability). A base HCM subscription is required. Organizations can opt to license the recruiting module for the relevant population of employees involved in hiring if desired.
- List Price: $5 per employee per month (list)for the Oracle Recruiting Cloud. (In Oracle’s price list, recruiting is an add-on option at roughly this rate for each employee covered by the service.)
Oracle Recruiting Booster Cloud Service
Oracle Recruiting Booster is an add-on to the Recruiting Cloud, providing advanced capabilities for engaging candidates. It includes features such as a scheduling center for interview coordination, recruitment marketing events, campus recruiting tools, and enhanced candidate communication tools.
This module helps organizations accelerate hiring through events and improved candidate experiences.
- Licensing: It requires the Oracle Recruiting Cloud Service and is licensed per Hosted Employee (a similar metric as the base recruiting module). It extends the recruiting functionality for all licensed users.
- List Price: Oracle’s public price list indicates Recruiting Booster as a separate service. While Oracle hasn’t publicly published a detailed standalone price, it is offered as a small incremental subscription. (It is typically a few dollars per employee per month; for example, many Oracle HCM customers report it as a low-cost add-on.) (Listed as an HCM service option).
Learning Cloud Service (Learning and Development)
Oracle Learning Cloud is a Learning Management System (LMS) for employee training and development. It enables organizations to create and deliver training courses, curate learning content, track compliance training, and support social learning and development plans.
The module supports personalized learning paths and can integrate with career development to upskill employees.
- Licensing: Licenses can be purchased per Hosted Named User, typically each employee or learner who will access the learning system. (External learners can also be accommodated, but standard licensing is per internal user/employee.) A Minimum user count applies (often 1,000).
- List Price: $3 per monthly employee for the Learning Cloud module. This is the monthly list price for each licensed learner. (Some sources note ~$2–$3 per user/month as typical for learning).
Workforce Compensation Cloud Service
Oracle Workforce Compensation Cloud helps manage employee compensation plans, including salary, bonuses, stock grants, and incentives. It provides tools for merit cycles, budget modeling, and compensation analytics to ensure fair and performance-linked rewards.
HR and managers can use this module to plan and allocate compensation adjustments during annual or periodic compensation review processes.
- Licensing: Licensed per Hosted Employee or Named User (Oracle’s price metric for compensation is typically per employee, though some bundles allow licensing a subset of employees). Many organizations license all employees so that every worker’s compensation can be managed.
- List Price: Approximately $3–$4 per employee per month. Oracle’s price list for Workforce Compensation (when unbundled) is a few dollars per user monthly. For example, one ordering document shows 3,200 users at ~$13,824 annually, which equates to about $3.60 per user/month. Oracle often bundles this with Talent Management for pricing purposes.
Time and Labor Cloud Service
Oracle Time and Labor is a workforce management module for tracking work hours, shifts, and attendance. It allows employees to report time (clock in/out or enter hours) and submit leave or overtime requests, while managers can approve timecards and schedule shifts.
The system automates overtime calculations, labor costing, and compliance with work hours rules. It integrates with payroll to ensure accurate pay for hourly and project-based workers.
- Licensing: It is priced per Hosted Named User, typically each employee whose time will be tracked in the system. In practice, organizations license Time & Labor for all non-exempt/hourly staff (and any others who must track time). Minimum user counts (e.g., 1,000) apply.
- List Price: $4 per monthly employee (list) for those using Time and Labor. This cost is in addition to the core HR base. (For example, an organization would pay an extra $4/month for each employee whose hours are managed with this module.)
Workforce Scheduling Cloud Service
Workforce Scheduling is an advanced scheduling solution for industries needing shift planning and optimizing workforce scheduling. This module allows planners to create schedules, fill shifts based on employee availability and skills, and optimize labor coverage for business operations (often used in retail, healthcare, manufacturing, etc.).
It works with Time and Labor to manage not just time entry but also the proactive scheduling of workers.
- Licensing: Licensed per Hosted Named User (each employee who will be scheduled via the system). Organizations can choose which subset of employees require scheduling.
- List Price: Oracle’s global price list includes Workforce Scheduling as a separate add-on. The list price is roughly a few dollars per user per month (similar in range to the Time & Labor module). (For example, one public sector quote shows Time & Labor and Scheduling collectively costing only a few dollars per user with volume discounts.) The precise list rate is on the order of ~$2–$4 per user/month for scheduling functionality.
Payroll Cloud Services (Country-Specific Payroll)
Oracle offers separate cloud-based payroll processing services for various countries. These Payroll Cloud modules calculate employee pay, taxes, and deductions in compliance with local laws. For example, payroll services exist for the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, India, Mexico, France, and others.
Each country’s payroll module includes tax updates and regulatory reporting for that jurisdiction. Organizations can run a fully integrated payroll or interface with third-party payroll providers using the payroll interface (which is included in Core HR if they choose not to use Oracle payroll).
- Licensing: Licensed per Hosted Compensated Individual – essentially each employee for whom payroll will be processed using Oracle’s system. Only the employees paid through the Oracle payroll need licenses for that country’s payroll service. (For example, you might license 1,000 US employees for the US Payroll Cloud.) Each country’s payroll is a separate subscription.
- List Price: ~$7 per monthly employee for payroll services in major markets. Oracle’s list price for US Payroll is about $7 per person/month ($84 per year per employee). Other country payroll modules are in a similar range. All require the Core HR base license as a prerequisite.
Human Resources Help Desk Cloud Service
Oracle HR Help Desk is an HR case management solution that lets employees submit HR inquiries and requests and allows HR agents to track and resolve those cases.
It includes a knowledge base for HR policies and a ticketing system integrated with employee data to manage sensitive HR issues (benefits questions, employee relations cases, etc.) securely within the HCM system.
HR Help Desk improves employee experience by providing a single place to get HR help.
- Licensing: Priced per Hosted Employee (every employee covered by the help desk service requires a license). Only available as an add-on to Oracle Core HR (you must have the base HCM subscription to add HR Help Desk).
- List Price: $4 per employee per month (list price). This cost is in addition to the base HR subscription. (For example, a company with 1,000 employees would pay roughly $4,000 per month for the list for the Help Desk module on top of Core HR.)
Dynamic Skills Cloud Service
Oracle Dynamic Skills is a newer module that helps organizations track and manage skills across their workforce. It provides a skills inventory, ontology, and AI-driven tools to identify employee skills, recommend learning or career opportunities, and match people to roles or projects based on their skills.
Dynamic Skills keeps skill profiles up-to-date and helps in reskilling and talent development initiatives.
- Licensing: Licensed per Hosted Employee (each employee whose skills will be managed). Requires the HCM Base Cloud Service as a prerequisite.
- List Price: $3 per employee per month (list). For example, at the list price, 1,000 employees would be $3,000 per month ($36,000/year) for Dynamic Skills. (E.g., 3,000 employees costs about $108,000 annually at list).
Advanced HCM Controls Cloud Service
Fusion Advanced HCM Controls is a service that provides advanced audit and compliance controls within HCM processes. It leverages Oracle’s risk management platform to continuously monitor HR transactions for segregation-of-duties violations, fraudulent activities, or policy non-compliance.
This is particularly useful for large enterprises to enforce governance over HR data changes (for example, detecting if the same user is creating and approving a high-value salary change).
- Licensing: Licensed per Hosted Employee. This is an optional add-on; you do not need to license all employees if not all data needs to be monitored, but it generally covers the HCM user population for compliance.
- List Price: The list price for Advanced HCM Controls is published on the Oracle price list as a separate service. It is roughly a few dollars per employee per month (similar to other add-ons). (Oracle’s official price list includes this as an HCM option, and in practice, Oracle often bundles it as part of its Risk Management Cloud offerings.) For budgeting, many organizations assume around ~$2–$5 per employee per month for this module at least.
Workforce Health and Safety Incidents Cloud Service
Oracle Workforce Health and Safety is a module for reporting and managing employees’ health, safety, and incident records. It allows workers and managers to record workplace incidents or near-misses, track investigation and remediation actions, and analyze safety trends.
This is especially relevant for industries with strict safety compliance needs (manufacturing, construction, etc.) to ensure OSHA (or local equivalent) compliance and to promote a safe work environment.
- Licensing: Licensed per Hosted Employee (each worker covered for incident tracking). Typically, companies license all employees in environments where safety incident reporting is needed.
- List Price: Typically around $2–$3 per employee per month at list. (While Oracle’s price list doesn’t explicitly publish this in marketing materials, it is an HCM option priced in the low single-digit dollars per employee, similar to other workforce management add-ons.)
Employee Experience: Oracle HCM Communicate Cloud Service
Oracle HCM Communicate is an employee communication module that enables HR to design and send personalized, targeted communications to workforce segments. It is part of Oracle’s “Employee Experience” suite (Oracle ME). HCM Communicate uses employee data to tailor emails or notifications (for example, sending policy updates to relevant groups) and tracks engagement metrics.
It improves how HR campaigns (benefits enrollment reminders, wellness communications, etc.) are managed and measured.
- Licensing: Licensed per Hosted Employee (each employee that will receive communications). Usually, all employees are included in communications. Requires the Core HR base.
- List Price: As a newer module, it is priced in line with other Oracle ME experience add-ons – roughly $1–$2 per employee per month (list). (This estimate is based on Oracle’s price list positioning of HCM Communicate as a low-cost add-on; it appears alongside other options on the price list.)
Employee Experience: Oracle Touchpoints Cloud Service
Oracle Touchpoints is another Oracle ME module focused on employee engagement and sentiment. It allows managers to capture feedback through quick check-ins and pulse surveys, track employee sentiment over time, and get recommended actions to improve team engagement.
Touchpoints facilitate continuous manager-employee conversations and help improve retention by addressing concerns proactively.
- Licensing: Licensed per Hosted Named User – in practice, each manager and employee who will use Touchpoints (often all employees, since anyone could provide feedback or have check-ins). It’s an add-on requiring the base HCM service.
- List Price: Also roughly $1–$2 per employee per month at list. (Oracle typically prices Touchpoints similarly to HCM Communicate, as both are part of the employee experience suite. They are low-cost, high-value add-ons to drive engagement.)
Strategic Workforce Planning Cloud Service
Oracle Strategic Workforce Planning is a module that links HCM with planning processes – it helps HR and finance to plan future workforce needs, model headcount scenarios, and analyze the gap between current talent and future requirements.
Often delivered in conjunction with Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tools, it allows the creation of hiring plans, retirement forecasts, and skill gap analysis to ensure the organization’s long-term talent strategy aligns with business goals.
- Licensing: Usually licensed per Hosted Named User (the planners or HR analysts using the tool). This could be fewer power users (e.g., HR planners or finance staff) than all employees.
- List Price: Oracle’s public price list includes Strategic Workforce Planning as an HCM option. The pricing is typically by user (planner) rather than per employee. For example, several planning users might be licensed at a few hundred dollars per user per month. (Exact list pricing can vary; it may be part of the EPM Cloud pricing.) In summary, it’s a specialized module with pricing scaled to the number of planners rather than the entire workforce.
Oracle HCM Analytics
Oracle Fusion HCM Analytics is a packaged analytics solution providing pre-built HCM dashboards and data models. It allows HR teams to analyze workforce data (headcount, turnover, diversity, performance, etc.) with advanced visualizations and AI-driven insights.
This service is built on Oracle Analytics Cloud and optimized for Oracle HCM data, providing deeper analytical capabilities than the transactional reports in the base HCM system.
- Licensing: Often licensed per user (analytics consumer) or sometimes per block of data/records. Oracle’s price list shows HCM Analytics with metrics like “Hosted Named User” or per 1,000 employees for the analytics data set. In practice, a certain number of analytics user seats are purchased.
- List Price: As a rough indication, HCM Analytics is often sold in packs or per user at list rates similar to Oracle Analytics Cloud. For example, one metric was “Fusion HCM Analytics – 1,000 hosted employees” as a unit. This suggests that for each 1,000-employee data block, there’s a fixed monthly price (one Oracle document indicates such a block pricing). A typical list price might be a few thousand dollars per month for the analytics module in a mid-sized organization. (Exact pricing would depend on the scale of data and users.)
Oracle Policy Automation for HCM (Policy Automation for Workers)
Oracle offers a Policy Automation Cloud Service (Oracle Intelligent Advisor) tailored for “Workers,” which can be used in HCM contexts to create Q&A interviews and decision guides (for example, to automate HR policy advice or complex eligibility determinations)
. This is essentially Oracle’s rules engine for HR, allowing the creation of interactive questionnaires for things like leave eligibility, benefits selection advice, or HR policy compliance checks.
- Licensing: Licensed via Oracle Intelligent Advisor metrics (often per 1,000 sessions or per user). In the HCM context, it might be licensed per 1,000 employees or per usage.
- List Price: Oracle’s global price list includes “Policy Automation for Workers Cloud Service,” but typically as part of the Oracle Intelligent Advisor pricing. An indicative price might be on the order of $1,000 per 1,000 interactions or similar. (This module is less commonly quoted on its own; it is listed among HCM options, but pricing is usually determined case by case based on usage.)
Sources: The above information is based on Oracle’s public cloud price list and expert reports. Key pricing details (in USD) are drawn from Oracle’s official Fusion Cloud Service Global Price List, analyst summaries, and Oracle licensing experts. Module descriptions are summarized from Oracle’s product documentation and reputable review sources.
These list prices are before any volume discounts; enterprise customers often negotiate lower rates. Refer to Oracle’s current price list for up-to-date figures and consult an Oracle representative for detailed pricing terms.
