Payroll software in Mumbai
Attendance, leave and statutory-ready payroll for Mumbai teams — PF, ESI, Maharashtra professional tax and TDS applied to every payslip, with upload-ready return files.
What is payroll software in Mumbai?
Payroll software for a Mumbai business computes each employee's salary from attendance and leave, applies PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS, and issues payslips employees can download themselves. PeopleDeck does this per employee, per month — and generates upload-ready statutory files instead of leaving you to build them in spreadsheets.
Mumbai payroll spans BFSI back-offices, media houses and services firms running multiple shifts.
Statutory treatment for Maharashtra
Maharashtra professional tax is applied to every payslip automatically, alongside PF, ESI and TDS.
EPF
12% employee + 12% employer on the ₹15,000 ceiling (Code on Social Security 2020, notified 29 May 2026). ECR generated for upload by the 15th.
ESI
0.75% employee + 3.25% employer up to the ₹21,000 wage ceiling, tracked across both contribution periods.
Gratuity & TDS
Gratuity accrues at 15/26 of monthly wages per completed year; monthly TDS is computed per declaration, with Form 16-ready data.
PeopleDeck applies these to every payslip and generates upload-ready files; it never files on your behalf, so nothing reaches a portal without your sign-off.
Built for Mumbai's teams
Finance & BFSI
Media
Services
- ✓ Multi-shift rosters and overtime flow straight into the payroll run.
- ✓ Leave balances, approvals and encashment in the same system
- ✓ Payslips, Form 16 data and reimbursements on employee self-service
- ✓ Onboarding to full-and-final settlement, per employee per month
Payroll in Mumbai, concretely
Mumbai runs the widest payroll spread in the country: BFSI back-offices with incentive grids, media houses with contract talent beside staff, and services firms running true multi-shift floors. Maharashtra professional tax applies as a monthly slab with its own annual pattern, and the city's real complexity is shift differentials meeting incentive pay in the same run. PeopleDeck holds each population on its own salary structure (shift-based, incentive-based, flat monthly) and computes them in one cycle, so one payday covers a dealing desk, an edit suite and a facilities roster without three parallel spreadsheets. Housing-heavy CTCs are the other Mumbai signature: HRA claims meeting rent realities, company accommodation adjustments, and LTA cycles that finance actually audits. Each is a structured component with its declared tax treatment, so the March reconciliation most Mumbai employees dread becomes a non-event.
Finance & BFSI pay patterns in Mumbai
BFSI and services incentives arrive as monthly or quarterly grids, usually approved late. The engine takes approved incentive figures as inputs to the current run (or as effect-dated arrears in the next one) and TDS projections re-compute against the true annual picture, which is what prevents the March squeeze employees remember. Contract talent in media adds the freelancer boundary: payout records outside PF and ESI, kept visible in production budgets but out of statutory files: the separation that keeps both the books and the returns clean.
Your first month, realistically
First-month Mumbai migrations almost always start at reconciliation: three payroll populations (shift, incentive, flat) living in three sheets that disagree with the bank statement. Import all three as separate structures, run one parallel month, and use the run preview to chase every variance to its source, usually an allowance someone edited by hand in one sheet only. Incentive grids move next: instead of a WhatsApp of approved numbers, incentives enter as approved inputs against named employees, and TDS reprojects the annual picture the same evening. The multi-shift floors change last and fastest — differentials attach to rosters once, and the first payday where night allowances simply appear correct is the day supervisors stop keeping private tallies.
Mechanism deep-dives: the payroll engine · attendance & leave · statutory compliance
Running a school or college instead?
PeopleDeck is the standalone HRMS for any business, priced per employee. If payroll should live inside your institution's ERP, use SchoolDeck staff payroll for schools or CampusAlly payroll for colleges.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Mumbai have professional tax on salaries?
Maharashtra professional tax is applied to every payslip automatically, alongside PF, ESI and TDS.
How is PeopleDeck priced?
One rate per employee per month, in rupees, covering the whole platform. Headcount is the only variable in the bill; there are no bundles, tiers or per-site charges to decode.
Does PeopleDeck file PF and ESI returns?
No. Every payslip carries the applied contributions and every run produces upload-ready files, but the filing step never happens behind your back; it is yours, with your consultant in the loop.
Can it handle finance & bfsi attendance in Mumbai?
Multi-shift rosters and overtime flow straight into the payroll run. Punches, shifts and leave land in the same run that computes PF, ESI and TDS.
Can night-shift allowances be automated for Mumbai teams?
Yes — differentials attach to the shift definition in the roster, so allowance lines compute from the shifts actually worked, not from a month-end memory exercise.
How is Maharashtra professional tax handled?
As a monthly slab applied per employee on each payslip, with the state's annual pattern respected, and shown as its own line so reconciliation against the challan is direct.
Can company accommodation or HRA-heavy structures be modelled?
Yes — HRA, accommodation perquisites and LTA are structure components with their own tax handling, computed per declaration rather than adjusted by hand at year-end.
Run Mumbai payroll without the spreadsheets.
Per employee, per month: attendance to upload-ready returns.
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