India-native entity Foo Falcon Tech Pvt Ltd · CIN U72900KA2022PTC163007 47 engineers paid · Apr 2026 14 US/UK companies on the entity 0 notices since founding 4 yrs on the books 5-day contractual Go-Live SLA $149/employee/month · first month free PF · ESI · S&E across all 28 states + 8 UTs Income Tax Act 2025 · Form 130 ready DPDP Act 2023 · 24-hr breach SLA

Employee cost calculator.

Employer of Record cost calculator for India hires.
INR + USD live. PF · ESIC · gratuity · EOR fee included.

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4 yrs On the books
47 Engineers paid · Apr 2026
14 US/UK companies on the entity
0 Notices since founding
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India employee cost calculator.

Enter your hire's gross CTC. We'll calculate the total employer cost in INR and USD · including PF, ESIC, gratuity, the Versatile EOR fee, and the optional add-ons that most India payroll vendors leave out.

Total annual employer cost
Gross CTC₹12,00,000
Employer PF (12% on basic + DA)₹72,000
Employer ESIC (if applicable)N/A · above ₹21k/mo gross
Gratuity provisioning (4.81% of basic)₹28,860
Profession Tax (Karnataka, employer share)₹2,400
Labour Welfare Fund₹240
Group health cover₹30,000
Group term life cover₹5,400
Versatile EOR fee (avg tier estimate)₹1,98,000
Total annual cost₹15,36,900

Or approximately $18,400 USD/year at ₹83.5/$ · Statutory contributions calculated per Versatile standard CTC structure (Basic 50%, HRA 20%, allowances 30%).

What this calculator does and doesn't include

Included: All 8 statutory items India payroll must handle (PF, ESIC, PT, TDS, gratuity, LWF, Shops & Establishments, New Labour Code 2025-26 compliance) plus the Versatile EOR fee and optional employee benefits.

Not included: TDS (Income Tax) · this is withheld from the employee's gross, not paid additionally by the employer. The numbers above are employer outflow, not the employee's gross-to-net.

  • Profession Tax slab: Defaults to Karnataka (most common). Different state? Toggle in our salary calculator.
  • ESIC threshold: Only applies if gross monthly salary is ≤ ₹21,000. Above that, ESIC is not mandatory.
  • EOR fee tier: Estimated at the mid-tier ($165/month at ₹83.5/$ for the example). Your actual tier depends on headcount + salary band · get a personalized quote.

One vendor for the whole India operation.

EOR is the contract layer. The other seven things that make India hiring work are also on our books. One MSA, one invoice, one accountable entity.

Legal employment

Offer letter, PF UAN, ESIC IP all under Foo Falcon's PAN. Your hire is on our books, not a partner's.

Recruitment

Sourcing, screening, interviews. $99/position, $1,199/mo dedicated recruiter, or contingent on placement.

Employee insurance

Group health (₹5L floater, family), accident, term life. Day-1 coverage, no waiting period, no separate vendor.

Devices & equipment

Laptop, monitor, peripherals. Locally procured, delivered before Day 1. Pass-through cost, no markup.

Onboarding

Welcome call, document collection, policy walkthrough, first-paycheck schedule. Five-day SLA. Three-day fastest.

Payroll & statutory

Monthly run, PF + ESIC + PT + TDS, Form 16, gratuity. Eight statutory items on every payslip.

Compliance & audits

EPFO + ESIC inspections, Section 7A inquiries, audit-ready records. Inspectors come to us, not you.

Offboarding

Notice, F&F, gratuity, asset recovery, experience letter, UAN continuity. Clean exit, every time.

What we hold ourselves to.

Four operational benchmarks, refreshed monthly. These are not aspirations. They are the floor.

100% On-time payroll, every cycle, every employee
Zero Notices issued by any statutory authority since founding
<4hr Reply time from your named compliance lead, IST business hours
One Consolidated USD invoice per employee per month

Real teams, real numbers.

Three engagements that show how this works in practice. Different ICPs, different scales, same EOR mechanics.

Built by India payroll specialists.

Foo Falcon Pvt Ltd. Running India payroll since June 2022. Four years on the books. The team behind the numbers below is the same team you email.

3.8 yrs Incorporated 28 Jun 2022 · RoC-Bangalore · Active status
14 US and UK clients on the entity · April 2026
47 Employees drawing salary from us this month
100% Client retention · 36 months · zero churn

The team you are actually emailing.

Named compliance lead on every account. Email replies in 4-6 hours from the same India payroll specialists who run your filings · not from a tier-one help desk.

Sagar Chainani

Founder & CEO · Bengaluru

Ex-[prior employer]. Director of the entity since incorporation. DIN 09654072. On every client Slack channel.

Riya Khanna

Compliance Lead · Bengaluru

Named on every client account. Drafts EPFO replies, reviews every payslip, signs the statutory filings. The reason zero notices have landed in 36 months.

Vikram Sethi

Senior Payroll Specialist · Bengaluru

Runs payroll on the first of every month. Forty-seven payslips, zero misses in the last twelve cycles. Owns UAN, ESIC, and gratuity continuity.

Verify the entity. Three clicks each.

Most India EORs do not publish their CIN, their GSTIN, or their ESI code. We do, plus the Udyam registration, the PAN, the TAN, and the actual government-issued certificates as PDFs. Click any of them to verify the entity is real, current, and active on the official Government of India portals.

Live government registers
Source documents on file

Most "EORs" pass through to a third-party Indian entity you never see. We are the entity. The CIN, GSTIN, ESI code, and Udyam registration above are all on the contract counterparty of every offer letter we issue.

Featured clients on our payroll. In their own words.

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"Building a GCC means picking partners who can move at the speed your design org wants to ship. They built our India GCC quietly and properly. No surprise fees. Onboarding SLAs they actually hit."

GE
Design Hiring Manager
Giant Eagle · Global Capability Center

"Switching EOR is supposed to be the worst quarter of the year. Continuity of PF, gratuity vesting, salary cycles, one wrong move and the team panics. Migration finished inside one payroll cycle. Zero disruption. The team did not even notice the swap."

EP
Technical Lead
ePublishing · Migrated Jun 2025

"We needed someone who knew that a Climate Connect hire is also a notice from EPFO if it is structured wrong. USD invoicing, fast onboarding, and someone who actually knows the difference between PF compliance and PF theatre."

MM
Michael Montmoril
Climate Connect Digital · India Lead

"Our India design GCC was supposed to take a quarter to spin up. Versatile got the first three designers on payroll inside two weeks, with audit-ready statutory filings from Day 1. The compliance handling held up to internal audit, which is the hardest part."

LI
Design Hiring Manager
LinkedIn · India Design GCC · Aug 2025

Same India operation. Different angle.

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Dear founder,

If you are hiring your first engineer in India, the part nobody warns you about is not the talent. It is the eight statutory filings, the New Labour Code rebase, and the EPFO inspection notice that arrives in month three.

Versatile exists so a US founder can hire in India the way they hire in California. Sign a contract on Monday. Have a payslip on the first. Get a USD invoice that an auditor can read. Our compliance team owns every step.

If that is the kind of partner you want, our team email is on every contract: [email protected]. Write to us before you sign. We reply in 4-6 hours.

- The Versatile team
VIndia · 2024
To:
You, the next founder
hiring engineer number one
in India.

Questions we hear most.

How accurate is this calculator?

Within 3-5% for the standard CTC structure (Basic 50%, HRA 20%, allowances 30%). Your actual employer cost varies slightly based on state-specific Profession Tax slab, gratuity provisioning timing, and the exact Versatile tier inside the $99-$399 range. For a precise quote, talk to us.

TDS (Tax Deducted at Source) is withheld from the employee's gross salary and remitted by us to the IT department. It doesn't add to the employer's outflow · your invoice is the same whether TDS is high or low. Use the salary calculator if you want to see the employee's in-hand after TDS.

The displayed calculator uses an average tier estimate (~$165 PEPM). Your specific tier depends on: headcount (lower tier as you scale), salary band (higher absolute statutory contributions = higher tier), add-ons selected. Submit the form for a personalized quote.

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