The phrase "are only compensated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the limited nature of compensation received for a particular role or task.
Example: "Employees in this position are only compensated for their hours worked, without any additional benefits."
Alternatives: "are solely paid" or "receive only payment".
There are some financial professionals who are only compensated through what you pay them.
Patients with approved workers' compensation injuries receive guaranteed compensation for the duration of their injury, whereas patients with personal injury claims are only compensated, if at all, at the time of a successful settlement or trial verdict at a time point distant from their injury.
In an energy-only market, power plants are only compensated if they provide power (or ancillary services) to the market.
In much the same way that Uber drivers occupy a grey area between employees and contractors, we act somewhat like workers for Amazon and Facebook, yet are only compensated with convenience, not payment, for giving up our data.
Similarly, many fouls that are committed outside the box deny a clear goal-scoring chance but the wronged team is only compensated with a free-kick outside the area, for which the guilty team gets to erect a wall and reorganise.
HMO insured are obliged to choose a primary care physician, and treatment by specialists is only compensated after referral by the primary care physician.
"It's only right that we compensate those for the increased costs".
In contrast, risky innovators are less likely to survive, are less efficient, and are only sometimes compensated for their risk in terms of higher profits.
Activists note that fully paid leave is more equitable, because when parents are only partially compensated, as is the case with California's current law, low-income workers often can't afford to take advantage of the time off.
The slender and long spans in combination with the fact that permanent loads are only partially compensated for by prestressing are reasons for the large deflections that increase during the life time of the bridge, although at a decreasing rate.
They remind that decomposing harvest residues and roots increase the carbon emissions of cuttings, and these emissions are only slowly compensated for by increased use of wood products.
