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Payroll Outsourcing in Delhi, Where the Rules Invert

Delhi flips the usual state payroll script. There is no professional tax at all (a municipal proposal to levy one was rejected), but the capital carries India's highest minimum wages, roughly ₹17,494 a month for unskilled work as of September 2026, with dearness allowance revised every April and October. Labour welfare fund is a token ₹6 plus ₹18 half-yearly, and shops and establishments registration is a one-time, lifetime affair. We fold all of it, with TDS, PF and ESIC, into one managed payroll for teams employed on our Indian entity.

No professional tax in Delhi, but India's highest minimum wages with April and October DA revisions. We run the capital's payroll rules alongside TDS, PF and ESIC for you.

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G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

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Tracking Delhi's inverted payroll profile yourself versus leaving it with us.

Six ways the capital differs from other Indian payroll states, and who absorbs each difference.

Delhi profile on you

Delhi profile on us

Professional tax
You confirm, and periodically re-confirm, that Delhi levies none, and strip it from templates built for other states.
Our Delhi computation simply has no PT line, correctly, by design.
Minimum wage exposure
The capital's floors are India's steepest and move twice a year with April and October DA orders you must catch.
Both revision windows sit in our review calendar and salaries are rechecked against them.
Labour welfare fund
₹6 from the employee and ₹18 from you, due half-yearly by June 30 and December 31 once five people are on the rolls.
A small remittance is still a remittance; ours goes out both windows on time.
Shops and establishments
Delhi grants a lifetime registration, but obtaining it and keeping records current is still your project.
Our registration already exists; your hires are simply recorded under it.
Central filings
TDS by the 7th, PF and ESIC by the 15th, monthly, on registrations you own and answer for.
The challans run under our codes and the receipts land in your proof pack.
Error economics
Arrears compound at 12% annual interest with damages up to 25%, billed to your company.
Recovery attaches to our registrations, which is the whole point of the model.

Delhi profile on you
Professional tax You confirm, and periodically re-confirm, that Delhi levies none, and strip it from templates built for other states.
Minimum wage exposure The capital's floors are India's steepest and move twice a year with April and October DA orders you must catch.
Labour welfare fund ₹6 from the employee and ₹18 from you, due half-yearly by June 30 and December 31 once five people are on the rolls.
Shops and establishments Delhi grants a lifetime registration, but obtaining it and keeping records current is still your project.
Central filings TDS by the 7th, PF and ESIC by the 15th, monthly, on registrations you own and answer for.
Error economics Arrears compound at 12% annual interest with damages up to 25%, billed to your company.

Delhi profile on us
Professional tax Our Delhi computation simply has no PT line, correctly, by design.
Minimum wage exposure Both revision windows sit in our review calendar and salaries are rechecked against them.
Labour welfare fund A small remittance is still a remittance; ours goes out both windows on time.
Shops and establishments Our registration already exists; your hires are simply recorded under it.
Central filings The challans run under our codes and the receipts land in your proof pack.
Error economics Recovery attaches to our registrations, which is the whole point of the model.
Month 1
MCA name and incorporation process begins
Month 2
Company stands registered
Month 3
PAN, TAN and GST arrive
Month 4
PF and ESIC employer codes issued
Month 5
Bank and payroll stack configured
Month 6
A compliant Delhi payroll can finally start

The capital's inspectors read the same penalty tables.

Delhi may skip professional tax, but a late PF or TDS deposit here accrues exactly what it would anywhere: 12% annual interest and damages scaling to 25%.

Employ through us and those deposit obligations are registered to Foo Falcon Technologies, keeping your company off every notice.

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Growth of one unpaid Delhi challan across six months Combined interest and damages
₹6,200 Day 1
₹41,500 Day 30
₹1,84,000 Day 90
₹3,12,000 Day 180
Assumes a small wage bill and a single missed deposit. Bigger Delhi payrolls scale the rupee figures up sharply.
Where recovery proceedings point
Delhi payroll on your registrations You
Delhi payroll on Versatile's registrations Versatile

No professional tax does not mean low compliance. Delhi swaps a tax line for a wage floor that moves twice a year. Put a Delhi team's figures through the EOR versus entity calculator and compare structures.

Splitting a Delhi payroll month: your decisions, our machinery.

You choose pay and approve one summary a month. We compute against Delhi's wage orders, remit centrally and keep the file.

You run

  • Pay levels and raises for Delhi hires
  • Monthly approval of the payroll summary
  • The team's actual output and priorities

We handle

  • Gross-to-net with no stray PT line
  • Wage-order checks after April and October revisions
  • TDS deposit on the 7th, PF and ESIC challans on the 15th
  • Half-yearly LWF in June and December
  • Payslips, Form 16 and registers

You run
  • Set Delhi pay
  • Approve the summary
  • Drive the work
  • Keep every business call

We handle
  • Compute without PT
  • Track DA revisions
  • Deposit TDS by 7th
  • PF and ESIC by 15th
  • Remit June LWF
  • Remit December LWF

When something happens in India, it is ours.
A wage-order revision is notified We recheck salaries
A department raises a challan query Our desk responds
A payslip line is disputed We rework and reissue

A named compliance manager owns your account. Not a queue, not a chatbot, one person who already knows your headcount and your last filing.

Account managerMedian first reply 4 to 6 hours
Recruitment coordinatorBrief to shortlist 9 days
Finance associateFilings on time 8 / 8

Templates that know Delhi has no PT.

Payroll run off an all-India template quietly deducts professional tax where none is owed. Our Delhi computation carries no PT line at all, so employees keep what the law says they keep.

Two wage revisions a year, both caught.

Delhi's dearness allowance orders in April and October move the highest minimum wages in the country. Both windows are standing entries in our review, so no salary is left beneath a revised floor.

Small filings treated as real filings.

Delhi's labour welfare fund is ₹6 plus ₹18 per half-year, trivial in rupees and easy to dismiss. We remit it by June 30 and December 31 anyway, because a missed token filing still opens a file.

The whole capital stack, one fee.

TDS, PF, ESIC, Delhi LWF, wage-order compliance and the lifetime establishment registration all live inside the same flat monthly employment fee.

Templates that know Delhi has no PT.

Payroll run off an all-India template quietly deducts professional tax where none is owed. Our Delhi computation carries no PT line at all, so employees keep what the law says they keep.

Wrong deductions erode trust faster than late pay.

Two wage revisions a year, both caught.

Delhi's dearness allowance orders in April and October move the highest minimum wages in the country. Both windows are standing entries in our review, so no salary is left beneath a revised floor.

A floor that moves is a floor you must watch.

Small filings treated as real filings.

Delhi's labour welfare fund is ₹6 plus ₹18 per half-year, trivial in rupees and easy to dismiss. We remit it by June 30 and December 31 anyway, because a missed token filing still opens a file.

Inspectors do not weigh a lapse by its rupee value.

Moving someone across

Move a running Delhi payroll to us without missing a cycle.

From another provider or an overloaded internal desk, we take over between months: prior figures reconciled, statutory continuity preserved, and the team paid on schedule as if nothing happened.

Tenure Kept
Gratuity clock Kept
PF and UAN Continuous
Payroll gap 0 days

Two hundred reconciled records in one takeover remains our benchmark, and it went clean.

Supporting evidence

Inspect the company that would employ your Delhi team.

The employer is Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, a 2022-registered Bengaluru company operating pan-India.

  • Incorporation
  • GST
  • EPFO code
  • ESIC
  • Shops and Establishments
  • PAN and TAN
  • Udyam MSME
What we verify
  • Incorporation Ministry of Corporate Affairs
  • GST Goods and Services Tax
  • EPFO code Employees Provident Fund Organisation
  • ESIC Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • Shops and Establishments Government of Karnataka
  • PAN and TAN Income Tax Department
  • Udyam MSME Government of India

One email gets you the incorporation certificate as a PDF, with no meeting bolted on.

200

payroll records absorbed and reconciled in our biggest single migration

33

straight monthly cycles run for one client without a single disputed figure

5 days

between a Delhi offer signature and a live payroll seat

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing through us.

Teams on letting go of Delhi payroll.

Clients hiring in the capital describe what changed when the wage orders and challans became ours to track.

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Bharath Rasoi KS Rajeshwari Founder, Bharath Rasoi
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Open Theatre Anand Raj Founder, Open Theatre
Abid Hassan Verified client
Sensibull
“They moved fast and took the whole compliance side off my plate. For a founder making an early India hire, that is exactly what you want.”
Abid Hassan Founder and CEO, Sensibull
Via G2
Moonshot
“Every option was either 'set up your own entity' or a platform that quotes a great price then hits you with add-ons. Versatile was the one that actually made it simple. First payroll ran on time. No scramble.”
Angad S. Co-Founder, Moonshot
Via G2
Digital Marketing Agency
“Contracts, PF, ESI, TDS and payroll all in one place. Invoicing in USD meant zero exchange rate surprises. The compliance rigour is genuinely reassuring.”
Vedant T. Founder, Digital Marketing Agency
Via G2
Design Studio
“Setting up in a new country can get messy fast, but their India EOR made onboarding feel easy. The team is responsive, clear, and great to work with.”
Setu C. Studio Owner, Design Studio
Via G2
US Startup
“We used Versatile to hire our first employee in India after months of putting it off because the compliance side seemed like a mess. They walked us through it and now we don't think about it.”
Verified US Founder First-time Founder, US Startup
Via G2
Mid-Market Tech Co.
“Versatile consistently delivered work that was both strategically sharp and execution-ready. Their turnaround times are impressive, and they think about problems the way an in-house team would.”
Shivani K. Senior Manager, Tech TA
Via G2
Growth-stage Startup
“Their team was highly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. They made a complex process feel simple.”
Mukul S. Core Team, Growth-stage Startup

Case studies.

Largest food delivery app in India, decacorn View case study The world's largest professional network, part of Microsoft View case study Legacy US software company, publishing platforms View case study

Capital-grade compliance at one flat Delhi price.

$149 per employee monthly buys employment, payroll and Delhi's full compliance profile. $129 after twenty heads. Recruitment optional at 12% of CTC.

Employer of Record

Delhi payroll built in
$149 /employee/mo

One number covers employment, monthly payroll, wage-order tracking and every filing. At twenty-one heads the rate steps down to $129 across the roster.

Start hiring
  • Employment via our Indian entity
  • Delhi wage-order compliance checks
  • TDS, PF and ESIC on the clock
  • June and December LWF remitted
  • Payroll live in five working days
  • A named compliance owner
  • Payslip portal access for staff
  • Migration path to your own entity
  • Employment via our Indian entity
  • Delhi wage-order compliance checks
  • TDS, PF and ESIC on the clock
  • June and December LWF remitted
Four more inclusions
  • Payroll live in five working days
  • A named compliance owner
  • Payslip portal access for staff
  • Migration path to your own entity

Shifting an existing Delhi team? Sales will map the handover.

Recruitment

Delhi hiring support
12% of annual CTC

Junior and mid-level Delhi searches at 12% of annual CTC, billed at day ninety. Senior mandates at 15%, leadership priced per search, your own candidates free.

Send us a role
  • Shortlist inside nine days
  • Delhi compensation benchmarks
  • Loops arranged on your calendar
  • Invoice deferred to day ninety
  • Senior searches at 15%
  • Leadership scoped individually
  • Zero fee on self-sourced hires
  • Our entity or yours at placement
  • Shortlist inside nine days
  • Delhi compensation benchmarks
  • Loops arranged on your calendar
  • Invoice deferred to day ninety
Four more details
  • Senior searches at 15%
  • Leadership scoped individually
  • Zero fee on self-sourced hires
  • Our entity or yours at placement

A slate of Delhi roles? Sales will quote a bundle.

Volume price, no ask

$149 $129 /employee/mo

The twenty-first head reprices every seat, old and new, to $129 that same cycle.

The Delhi work inside $149

  • Delhi-compliant employment contract
  • Monthly computation, twice reviewed
  • No erroneous PT deduction ever
  • Central challans on the 7th and 15th
  • Half-yearly LWF both windows
  • Payslips, Form 16 and registers
  • Monthly proof pack for auditors
  • Exit dues computed and settled

Twenty-one and beyond

$149 $129 /employee/mo

The full roster steps down together, without an amendment.

Inside the fee

  • Delhi-compliant employment contract
  • Monthly computation, twice reviewed
  • No erroneous PT deduction ever
  • Central challans on the 7th and 15th
  • Half-yearly LWF both windows
  • Payslips, Form 16 and registers
  • Monthly proof pack for auditors
  • Exit dues computed and settled

Recruitment bills 12% of annual CTC at day ninety for junior and mid-senior roles when used. Salaries and statutory sums pass through at actuals. Devices bill at usage via partners. Test your assumptions in the EOR versus entity calculator before committing.

Delhi payroll questions, including the ones about what is absent.

Eight questions employers ask about running payroll in the capital, from the missing professional tax to the moving wage floor.

Is there professional tax in Delhi?

No. Delhi levies no professional tax as of September 2026; a Municipal Corporation proposal to introduce one was rejected. Payroll for Delhi employees should carry no PT deduction, and part of our takeover checklist is removing wrongly configured PT lines from inherited setups.

What makes Delhi minimum wages different?

They are the highest in India, around ₹17,494 a month for unskilled work as of September 2026, and they move twice a year through dearness allowance revisions each April and October. Typical white-collar salaries clear the floors easily, but the checks still need doing after every order.

How does labour welfare fund work in Delhi?

Establishments with five or more employees contribute ₹6 per employee and ₹18 from the employer each half-year, due by June 30 and December 31. The amounts are tiny; the obligation is not. We remit both windows for every covered head.

Do Delhi employees need shops and establishments registration?

The employer needs it, and Delhi issues it as a one-time, lifetime registration. Under our model the registration is ours, already held, so a Delhi hire creates no registration work on your side.

Which deadlines govern a Delhi payroll month?

TDS deposit by the 7th of the following month and PF and ESIC challans by the 15th, with no state PT date to add. Late amounts gather 12% annual interest and damages up to 25%, which under our model accrue against our registrations.

Can we hire in Delhi with no Indian entity?

Yes. Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd employs your Delhi team on its registrations while you direct the work day to day. You receive one USD invoice; the statutory machinery, central and Delhi-specific, runs on our side.

How fast is a Delhi hire live on payroll?

Five working days from signed offer. Add recruitment and we deliver a shortlist within nine days, with the 12% CTC fee for junior and mid-level roles invoiced only at day ninety.

When is outsourced payroll wrong for a Delhi employer?

If you hold a Delhi establishment registration and staff a finance desk already, a plain processor may serve. Engagements under three months belong on contractor terms. And at forty to fifty steady heads, running your own desk on your own entity wins on cost. We say so when the math turns.

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  • PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
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