[Objective] The forest ecological compensation standard in Hunhe river basin was measured in order to provide a scientific basis for making forest ecological compensation mechanism of the river basin.[Methods] This paper determined forest ecological compensation standard by using principal component analysis to form compensation coefficient, defining the development standard of society and economy, and calculating the forest ecological service value from top to bottom with ArcGIS 9.3, which took forest ecological compensation in Hunhe River basin as an example.[Results] The highest forest ecological compensation standard of Shenyang City is 412 million RMB every year, and the lowest is 7 million RMB each year in Dawa County.[Conclusion] Forest ecological service value was gradually reduced with the increase of the distance from the upstream. The more forest ecological service values from the upstream were, the bigger the compensation coefficient was, and the higher standard of compensation was.