SalaryExit India is an independent, information-first site for salaried employees in India who want clearer intuition about pay, tax regimes, rent vs savings, and exit scenarios — with assumptions shown in the open.
SalaryExit was built after a frustrating experience that many Indian salaried employees will recognize: HR sent an offer letter showing ₹12 LPA CTC, and the first payslip showed an in-hand amount nearly ₹15,000 lower than expected. The gap came from three compounding factors — a professional tax deduction nobody mentioned, a PF wage calculation based on a percentage of Basic rather than a flat amount, and TDS front-loaded to cover the full year. No fraud, no error in HR's math — just assumptions that were never made visible.
That experience surfaced a real gap: most Indian salary calculators give you a single number with no assumptions attached. When the number differs from your payslip (and it often does), there is no way to understand why or how to correct it. SalaryExit is the attempt to fix that — starting from the principle that a useful estimate shows its work.
We are not a substitute for your employer's payroll team, a chartered accountant, or a tax filing product.
Each tool runs on the same core calculation layer (TypeScript, with unit tests): you supply inputs, the engine applies published formulas and config — tax slabs for the configured financial year, PF rules under the Employees' Provident Funds Act, Payment of Gratuity Act calculations, HRA exemption under Section 10(13A). Results are labeled as estimates where the real world introduces variation (TDS timing, state professional tax tables, employer-specific PF wage definitions, bonuses).
Browse the full list on the calculators hub. For a single map of limits and FY scope, read methodology.
Tax slabs, standard deductions, rebate thresholds, and EPF ceiling figures live in versioned configuration files in the codebase. When India's Union Budget changes rules, the config is updated and the change is documented — not made silently. The methodology page and freshness badges on calculator pages state the financial year the engine targets and the last time content was reviewed.
Calculator logic is covered by unit tests that run against worked examples. Any change to the core calculation functions requires tests to pass. This does not guarantee that your employer uses the same assumptions — but it does mean the formulas we publish match what the calculator actually computes.
Tax slab data is sourced from Finance Act publications and CBDT notifications. PF rules reference the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. Gratuity calculations follow the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. Where rules are complex, we document the simplification we made and why.
If you find a bug or a mismatch with a cited rule, use the contact page. We treat accuracy within stated scope as a serious obligation.
Treat every number as an estimate with stated assumptions. Cross-check material decisions — a job switch, a city move, a tax filing — with official documents and qualified professionals where consequences matter. The goal of this site is to help you ask better questions of your payroll team and CA, not to replace them.
Page content last reviewed: July 2026. For calculation scope and FY assumptions, see methodology.