diff --git a/packages/common/src/converter/payload-converter.ts b/packages/common/src/converter/payload-converter.ts
index fbea9cb81..ecbb5b23a 100644
--- a/packages/common/src/converter/payload-converter.ts
+++ b/packages/common/src/converter/payload-converter.ts
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ export class RawValue<T = unknown> {
     this._payload = payloadConverter.toPayload(value);
   }
 
+  static fromPayload(p: Payload): RawValue {
+    return new RawValue(p, identityPayloadConverter);
+  }
+
   get payload(): Payload {
     return this._payload;
   }
@@ -312,3 +316,18 @@ export class DefaultPayloadConverter extends CompositePayloadConverter {
  * `const myConverter = new DefaultPayloadConverter({ protobufRoot })`
  */
 export const defaultPayloadConverter = new DefaultPayloadConverter();
+
+/**
+ * The identity payload converter returns the inputs it was given.
+ */
+class IdentityPayloadConverter implements PayloadConverter {
+  toPayload<T>(value: T): Payload {
+    return value as Payload;
+  }
+
+  fromPayload<T>(payload: Payload): T {
+    return payload as T;
+  }
+}
+
+const identityPayloadConverter = new IdentityPayloadConverter();
diff --git a/packages/test/src/test-integration-workflows.ts b/packages/test/src/test-integration-workflows.ts
index 56722cfd7..1a4c8e0c8 100644
--- a/packages/test/src/test-integration-workflows.ts
+++ b/packages/test/src/test-integration-workflows.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ import {
   ActivityCancellationType,
   ApplicationFailure,
   defineSearchAttributeKey,
+  encodingKeys,
+  METADATA_ENCODING_KEY,
   RawValue,
   SearchAttributePair,
   SearchAttributeType,
@@ -36,6 +38,7 @@ import {
   STACK_TRACE_QUERY_NAME,
   ENHANCED_STACK_TRACE_QUERY_NAME,
 } from '@temporalio/common/lib/reserved';
+import { encode } from '@temporalio/common/lib/encoding';
 import { signalSchedulingWorkflow } from './activities/helpers';
 import { activityStartedSignal } from './workflows/definitions';
 import * as workflows from './workflows';
@@ -1318,17 +1321,29 @@ test.serial('can register search attributes to dev server', async (t) => {
   await env.teardown();
 });
 
-export async function rawValueWorkflow(value: unknown): Promise<RawValue> {
+export async function rawValueWorkflow(value: unknown, isPayload: boolean = false): Promise<RawValue> {
   const { rawValueActivity } = workflow.proxyActivities({ startToCloseTimeout: '10s' });
-  return await rawValueActivity(new RawValue(value));
+  const rv = isPayload
+    ? RawValue.fromPayload({
+        metadata: { [METADATA_ENCODING_KEY]: encodingKeys.METADATA_ENCODING_RAW },
+        data: value as Uint8Array,
+      })
+    : new RawValue(value);
+  return await rawValueActivity(rv, isPayload);
 }
 
 test('workflow and activity can receive/return RawValue', async (t) => {
   const { executeWorkflow, createWorker } = helpers(t);
   const worker = await createWorker({
     activities: {
-      async rawValueActivity(value: unknown): Promise<RawValue> {
-        return new RawValue(value);
+      async rawValueActivity(value: unknown, isPayload: boolean = false): Promise<RawValue> {
+        const rv = isPayload
+          ? RawValue.fromPayload({
+              metadata: { [METADATA_ENCODING_KEY]: encodingKeys.METADATA_ENCODING_RAW },
+              data: value as Uint8Array,
+            })
+          : new RawValue(value);
+        return rv;
       },
     },
   });
@@ -1336,10 +1351,18 @@ test('workflow and activity can receive/return RawValue', async (t) => {
   await worker.runUntil(async () => {
     const testValue = 'test';
     const rawValue = new RawValue(testValue);
+    const rawValuePayload = RawValue.fromPayload({
+      metadata: { [METADATA_ENCODING_KEY]: encodingKeys.METADATA_ENCODING_RAW },
+      data: encode(testValue),
+    });
     const res = await executeWorkflow(rawValueWorkflow, {
       args: [rawValue],
     });
     t.deepEqual(res, testValue);
+    const res2 = await executeWorkflow(rawValueWorkflow, {
+      args: [rawValuePayload, true],
+    });
+    t.deepEqual(res2, encode(testValue));
   });
 });