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Payroll, PF and ESI
PF, ESI, and professional tax from figures you type.
What this tool does
The payroll calculator takes monthly gross and, if you want PF, monthly basic. Employee PF is 12 percent of basic. Tick the ceiling to cap that basic at ₹15,000 before the 12 percent. Leave basic blank and PF stays zero. The tool will not assume a basic percentage of gross. Employee ESI is 0.75 percent of gross, and the employer figure shown beside it is 3.25 percent, both only when monthly gross is ₹21,000 or less. Above that, both ESI lines are zero. Professional tax is the annual amount you type, divided by 12 and rounded to two decimals. The tool does not look up a state's slab. West Bengal's employee rates are explained in the linked note. You still type the annual figure if you want it in this result. There is no income-tax estimate on this page. That sits on the in-hand calculator.
How to use it
Enter monthly gross. Enter basic only for PF. Tick the ceiling only when that wage cap applies. Type annual professional tax only when you already know it. Read PF, both ESI figures, and the monthly professional tax. The note under the result repeats the rates so you can see which switch fired.
Worked example
Gross ₹18,000 and basic ₹10,000, ceiling off, professional tax left blank. Employee PF is ₹1,200. Employee ESI is ₹135 and the employer ESI figure is ₹585, because 18,000 is at or under 21,000. Professional tax is ₹0 because you did not type one. Gross of ₹30,000 would zero both ESI lines. PF would still be 12 percent of whatever basic you entered. The jobs link on this page searches HiringBuddy for published roles matching “hr”. An empty list means nothing published matched. It is not a comment on the wider market. A signed-in candidate can save the attempt on their profile. Saving is not an application, and it does not show the attempt to an employer. Employers see people who apply to their own jobs.
Questions
- Does it guess basic as 40 or 50 percent of gross?
- No. Basic is required only if you want PF, and only the basic you type is used.
- When does ESI apply?
- When monthly gross is ₹21,000 or less. Employee 0.75 percent, employer figure 3.25 percent.
- Will it apply West Bengal professional tax by itself?
- No. Type the annual amount. The slab note is separate, and it is not a deduction instruction.