Salary & Payroll

New Tax Regime Salary Calculator: How Income Tax Affects Take-Home Pay

How income tax under the new regime is worked out from taxable income, current FY 2026-27 slabs, and how a calculator turns that into a take-home estimate.

PF, ESI and Professional Tax: How Salary Deductions Work

What EPF, ESI and professional tax actually are, who contributes what, and how each one reduces take-home pay — including a recent EPF wage-ceiling change.

How to Calculate Take-Home Salary in India

Take-home salary is gross salary minus PF, ESI, professional tax and income tax — here's how each deduction is worked out, with an example.

How to Calculate CTC in India

A worked walkthrough of how basic salary, HRA, allowances, employer PF and gratuity provisioning add up to CTC — with a full example.

Salary vs CTC: What's the Difference?

CTC, gross salary and take-home salary are three different numbers on the same offer letter — here's what each one actually means and why they don't match.