See if a salary structure clears the 50% wage floor — and what fixing it costs.
Build or upload a structure below. The balance line shows wages against the statutory half in real time; the trade-off view shows what compliance does to take-home, employer cost, retirement savings and tax.
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Wage share
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Add-back / mo
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Wage base / mo
Wages
Allowances
50% floor
Wages — Basic + DAReclassified to wagesAllowances (a)–(i)
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Start from a number
emit a compliant break-up
₹/ month
Enter a monthly cost-to-company. The tool sizes a compliant 50 / 25 / 25 Basic · HRA · Special break-up and back-solves the gross so the CTC lands on your number.
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Your structure
add any component, then tag it
XLS
Upload an Excel breakup to auto-fill the components below.
A residual special allowance tagged as an (a)–(i) allowance is caught by the 50% rule — the government's own method (FAQ 30.12.2025). Tag it as Wages instead to apply the stricter Vivekananda reading.
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The trade-off
current vs compliant
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Metric
monthly unless noted
Current
as entered
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Min-compliant
wages = 50%
compliant
Custom
50% wages
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Custom scenario — Basic + DA share of gross50%
Redistributes within the same gross cash. The third column tracks the slider.