Compliance tools
Contract-labour billing and liability calculator
Work out what a compliant deployment actually costs per head — the notified minimum wage for the state and skill band, plus provident fund, insurance, bonus, gratuity and welfare fund — then price a quote upward from it or measure a vendor’s quote against it.
Deployment
Compliant bill rate
Unskilled worker in Andhra Pradesh
Estimated wage floor — not yet confirmed
The minimum wage used for Andhra Pradesh is a working estimate, so every figure below is indicative. Confirm the current notification for this state and skill band before you quote it or act on it.
Wages
- Notified minimum wage — Unskilled
- ₹12,000
- Gross wage
- ₹12,000
EstimateEffective 2026-04-01 · Working estimate — not yet confirmed against a published notification.
Employer statutory cost
₹577- Gratuity provision Provision ₹577
15 days' wages per completed year on a 26-day month, spread monthly. Payable only after 5 years of continuous service.
Total employment cost
Per person, per month, before any agency margin
What the worker receives
₹12,000Gross wage less the worker's own deductions. Professional tax is a state levy on the worker, so it never forms part of the bill rate.
No statutory deductions apply to this wage.
This build-up is incomplete
- No provident fund rates are on file for 2026-09-08.
- No employees' state insurance rates are on file for 2026-09-08.
- No statutory bonus rates are on file for 2026-09-08.
We would rather show you nothing than a total built on a rate we have not verified.
No labour welfare fund rule is on file for this state, so none is charged.
The wage floor used here is a working estimate, not a figure read off a published notification. Confirm the current rate for this state and band before quoting or acting on it.
Want this run across a whole roster instead of one deployment at a time? Talk to us about NineRole — it generates the same build-up for every worker on a work order, and keeps the evidence behind it.
Every figure is labelled
A wage floor read off a published notification is marked as notified. Everything else is marked as a working estimate, on the state list and beside the result.
The payroll engine’s own rules
Provident fund, insurance, bonus and professional tax come from the same effective-dated rule store NineRole runs payroll on.
Shows its working
Every line states what it was charged on, so a quote can be defended line by line rather than as a single total.
What this calculator assumes
Statutory rates come from the same effective-dated rule store NineRole runs payroll on. These are the judgements made on top of them, stated so you can check them rather than take the total on trust.
- GST on manpower supply
- 18% added to the agency bill rate. It is collected and remitted, so it is stripped out before a vendor quote is measured against the cost floor.
- Provident fund base
- Contributions are restricted to the statutory wage ceiling, which is the minimum a compliant quote must contain. An employer contributing on full wages costs more.
- Gratuity
- 15 days' wages for each completed year on a 26-day month, shown as a monthly provision. Nothing is payable until 5 years of continuous service.
- Periodic levies
- Professional tax and labour welfare fund are charged monthly, half-yearly or annually depending on the state. The yearly total is spread across twelve months so a bill rate does not lurch between months.
- Classification
- Skill bands follow the state's own minimum wage schedule. Which band a worker falls in depends on the scheduled employment and the duties actually performed, and is the employer's determination to make.
Questions this tool gets asked
- Where do the wage figures come from?
- Confirmed states carry a figure read off a published minimum wage notification, recorded against its effective date. The remaining states carry a working estimate so the tool is usable nationally, and every screen that shows one says so. Check the notification before you rely on an estimated figure.
- What does the “estimate” label mean?
- That the wage floor has not yet been confirmed against a published notification. The arithmetic on top of it is the same, but the starting number may be wrong, so an estimated result is a prompt to check rather than a finding to act on.
- Why is professional tax not in the bill rate?
- Professional tax is levied on the worker, not the employer, so it is deducted from the wage rather than added to the cost of employing someone. It is shown separately because it changes what the worker actually receives.
- Why does the employer cost jump at a particular wage?
- Employees’ state insurance applies at or below a wage limit and not above it. It is a threshold rather than a taper, so crossing it removes the employer’s contribution in one step.
- What does the 50% wage rule change?
- Where excluded allowances exceed half of total remuneration, the excess is deemed to be wages. Provident fund, bonus and gratuity are then computed on that larger base rather than on basic and dearness allowance alone.
- Does a quote clearing the floor prove the vendor is compliant?
- No. It shows the price is large enough to contain the statutory cost. Whether contributions were actually remitted is a separate question, answered by challans and returns naming the deployed workers.
- Is this legal advice?
- No. It is an estimation tool for planning and negotiation. Confirm applicability, classification and current rates with qualified advisers and the relevant state notifications.
Verification trail
Sources
Written and maintained by the NineRole Research Desk. Wage floors marked "notified" were read off a published state notification and recorded against its effective date; those marked "estimate" have not been confirmed yet. Provident fund, insurance, bonus, welfare fund and professional tax all come from the same effective-dated rule store NineRole runs payroll on.
Read our editorial standards- 1India Code — national repository of central legislation
Ministry of Law and Justice
Primary source for the Code on Wages 2019, the Code on Social Security 2020, the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970, the Payment of Bonus Act 1965 and the Payment of Gratuity Act 1972.
- 2Ministry of Labour and Employment
Government of India
Official source for labour code commencement, central rules and minimum wage policy. State notifications are issued separately by each state government.
- 3About EPFO and the schemes it administers
Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation
Official overview of EPF, EPS and EDLI administration. Use current EPFO publications for operational rules and changes.
- 4Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
Employees’ State Insurance Corporation
Primary ESIC publication covering the statutory framework, including employer and employee contributions.