Indian salary, FY 2026-27 ratesYour offer, after tax and deductions

CTC to in-handTake-home salary calculator

Type the CTC. See what reaches your bank each month after PF, professional tax and income tax, under the new and the old regime, side by side, with the saving.Type your gross pay and the deductions on your payslip. See what reaches your bank each pay period, each year and each hour, from your country's official tax tables where we have them, or from the rates on your payslip.

The offer

Professional tax is ₹2,500 a year in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Gujarat, and none in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. The PF cap is 12% of basic up to ₹25,000 a month, the EPF wage ceiling from 17 Sep 2026 (it was ₹15,000). Employer NPS, if your offer has it, comes out of the CTC and counts in both regimes.

Old-regime deductions: HRA, 80C, NPS, 80D, home loan

These count only in the old regime, so they change the right-hand column of the comparison. Leave a box empty if it does not apply.

HRA (rent you pay)

Savings and payments

Caps applied: 80C ₹1,50,000 (your PF counts first), 80CCD(1B) ₹50,000, home-loan interest on a home you live in ₹2,00,000. 80D is taken as typed, because its cap depends on your age and your parents' age.

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What reaches your bank

Rates checked 3 Oct 2026, source: incometax.gov.in (tax slabs). PF wage ceiling ₹25,000 a month from 17 Sep 2026 (Gazette notification S.O. 5109(E)).

₹87,792
A month, in hand
New and old regime, side by side (a year)
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The old regime wins only when your deductions are large (full 80C, big HRA, home-loan interest).

A year

New regime: standard deduction ₹75,000; your PF and professional tax are not deductible.

Rates: FY 2026-27, new and old regime, from incometax.gov.in (tax slabs). Budget 2026-27 kept the FY 2025-26 slabs, rebate, cess and surcharge, so both years give the same answer. Professional tax is a state tax; pick your state on the left. Your payslip can still differ: HRA, special allowance, meal cards, NPS and the exact PF rule are set by the employer.

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Your pay

Type the rates from your payslip below, or pick a country to use its official tax table.

Deductions, each optional. Type a percent of your pay, or switch the small box to an amount per pay period. In the Philippines the usual lines are withholding tax, SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG; take each from your payslip or the BIR table linked below.

Federal, state and local tax together, if your country has more than one. Worked on gross pay minus the pre-tax retirement amount.
Only the share taken from your pay. The employer's own share is not deducted from you and is not in this table.
Taken out before income tax is worked. It is still your money, in a retirement account, not in your bank.

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What reaches your bank

Your own rates: the result is as right as the rates you type.

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These are your numbers. The result is only as right as the rates you typed. Employer-side contributions are not taken from your pay, so they are left out.

Find your real rates

Your tax office publishes the withholding table or an official calculator; search for it on the government site, not on a third-party page. Your last payslip has the same lines with the exact amounts.

Next: the offer call

The number on the offer is gross. The number you feel is take-home. Take both into the call. The counter-offer note is on the templates page. On the call itself, the ClapAssist AI interview assistant listens on your computer and shows what to say. It is hidden from screen share on every plan, including Free; only you can see it.

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How the number is worked out

  1. Your gross pay is turned into a yearly figure from the "per" you picked (a year, a month, two weeks, a week, a day of 260 working days a year, or an hour times your hours a week times 52), then split by how often you are paid.
  2. The pre-tax retirement contribution comes out first.
  3. Income tax is worked on what is left: a percent of it, or the amount you typed. With an official table, the table does this for you.
  4. Social contributions, health insurance and other deductions are worked on gross pay: a percent of it, or the amount you typed.
  5. Take-home = gross pay minus all of those, per pay period and for the year.
  6. The effective rate is all deductions divided by gross pay, from your own inputs.
  7. The last table shows the same take-home for every period at once: a year, a month, two weeks, a week, a working day and an hour.

Percent or amount: use whichever your payslip or the official calculator gives you. A fixed premium is an amount; a tax band is a percent. If a line does not apply to you, leave it empty.

Amounts can be typed the way you would write them: 85,000, $120k, £50,000, 1.2m, or with the period inside, like $85,000/yr or 25/hr. The page says under the box how it read the figure. If a figure looks like the wrong period (a "month" larger than a usual year's pay, or a "year" smaller than half of one), it asks whether you meant a month or a year instead of guessing.

Questions

Which countries have official rates built in?

Brazil, Canada (outside Quebec and Manitoba), Nigeria, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States (federal; you type your state rate). Each table was read on the tax office's own pages, and the page names the source and the date above the result. Every other country uses "Type my own rates": a guessed rate would be a wrong number with a confident face, so the page never guesses one.

How close is it to my payslip?

Close, not exact. Payroll works each pay period, rounds, and knows things this page does not: your tax code or W-4, credits, benefits, loans. Use it to compare offers; your payslip is the final word.

Which pay figure should I type?

Gross pay: the amount in the offer before anything is taken out, for a year unless you pick another period. Bonuses and stock are paid on the company's terms and taxed when paid, so leave them out of the regular pay figure.

I am paid by the hour. Does it work?

Yes. Pick "Hour" next to the pay box, or type it with the amount, like 25/hr, and set your hours a week (40 if you leave it). The page works out the year from those, then shows every period, down to the hour after tax.

Does the employer's share of pension or insurance count?

No. It is paid on top of your gross, never taken from it, so it does not change what reaches your bank. Only your own share belongs in the table.

Can I keep or share the result?

A reload keeps what you typed, in this browser only. "Copy share link" puts the numbers after the # in the link, the part a browser never sends to a website, so the person you send it to sees your figures and we never do. "Save as PDF" prints the result and the inputs.

How the number is worked out

  1. Fixed CTC = CTC minus the variable part.
  2. Basic = the share you picked (50% is common in offer letters; check yours).
  3. Employer PF (12% of basic, or of basic up to ₹25,000 a month if capped), employer NPS if your offer has it, and, if you ticked it, gratuity (4.81% of basic) come out of the CTC first. They are yours, but they never reach the bank monthly.
  4. What is left is the gross salary. Your own PF (12% of basic) and professional tax come out of it.
  5. Income tax, worked twice, once for each regime. New regime: gross salary minus the standard deduction of ₹75,000 and employer NPS up to 14% of basic. Old regime: minus ₹50,000, professional tax, the HRA exemption, 80C, 80CCD(1B), 80D, home-loan interest, employer NPS up to 10% of basic and anything else you typed. Then the slabs, the section 87A rebate (no tax up to ₹12 lakh taxable income in the new regime, ₹5 lakh in the old), surcharge above ₹50 lakh, and 4% cess.
  6. In hand = gross salary minus your PF, professional tax and income tax, divided by 12.
  7. The variable, if you count it this year, is added to the year's income. The extra tax it causes is shown against it, so the monthly figure stays your regular salary.

Which regime is better: the page works out both and says which one leaves you more, and by how much. Switch the breakdown to see either regime line by line. The old regime wins only when your deductions are large (full 80C, big HRA, home-loan interest).

The CTC box takes lakh or the full amount: 12, 12 LPA, 12 lakh, 12,00,000, ₹18,00,000, Rs. 12,00,000/- and 1.2 crore all work. A plain figure under 1,000 is read as lakh, anything larger as rupees, and the line under the box says which. A rupee figure too small for a year's CTC gets the question "a month or a year?".

Questions

How does the HRA exemption work?

Only in the old regime. The exempt part is the least of three: the HRA your employer pays, the rent you pay minus 10% of basic, and 50% of basic if you live in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune or Ahmedabad (40% anywhere else). The Income-tax Rules, 2026 added Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad to the 50% list from 1 April 2026. If you leave the HRA box empty, the page takes the HRA as the 50% or 40% limit and says so.

What is employer NPS, and why does it count in both regimes?

Some offers put part of the CTC into your NPS account. Section 80CCD(2) lets that part come off your taxable salary in either regime: up to 14% of basic in the new regime and 10% in the old one for a private employer. It is still your money, in your NPS account, so it does not reach the bank each month.

Why did the PF cap change?

The EPF wage ceiling went from ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 a month on 17 September 2026 (Gazette of India notification S.O. 5109(E)). If your employer works PF only up to the ceiling, the most each side puts in is now ₹3,000 a month instead of ₹1,800. Other employers work it on the full basic; that is this page's default, and you can switch to the capped rule.

Can I keep or share the result?

A reload keeps what you typed, in this browser only. "Copy share link" puts the numbers after the # in the link, the part a browser never sends to a website, so the person you send it to sees your figures and we never do. "Save as PDF" prints both regimes and the inputs.

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