The invention relates to a proportional valve output compensation circuit and a control method, belonging to a proportional valve output circuit of which the power is supplied by a storage battery on engineering machinery. The compensation circuit comprises an optical coupling circuit, a switching and converting circuit, a PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation) output circuit, a sampling circuit, an amplifying circuit, a low-pass filter and a comparison circuit, wherein the output end of the optical coupling circuit is connected with the output end of the comparison circuit and the input end of the switching and converting circuit; the output end of the switching circuit is connected with the input end of the PWM output circuit; the output end of the PWM output circuit is connected with the input end of the sampling circuit; the output end of the sampling circuit is connected with the input end of the amplifying circuit; and the output end of the amplifying circuit is connected with the output end of the low-pass filter and the input end of the comparison circuit. The invention has the advantages that the output circuit of a proportional valve coil is sampled, amplified and compared and then fed back to the output end of an optical coupler, thereby realizing current negative feedback, and the circuit is simple, reliable and easy to realize.