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Payroll Outsourcing in Pune, Maharashtra Compliance Without the Homework

Pune has become the default second city for India engineering teams, and it inherits Maharashtra's demanding payroll statute in full: a professional tax regime that runs on two separate certificates and slabs that differ by gender and month (as of September 2026, ₹200 a month above ₹10,000 in salary, ₹300 in February, exemption for women up to ₹25,000), welfare fund contributions every June and December, and minimum wage components that reset each January and July. Our desk absorbs the entire statute, together with TDS, PF and ESIC, for Pune teams employed on our Indian entity.

Pune inherits Maharashtra's two-certificate PT regime, month-and-gender slab rules, June and December welfare fund, and January and July wage resets. Our desk absorbs all of it.

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

Teams building in India. First hire to full team.

Doing Maharashtra homework for Pune in-house versus delegating the statute.

Six chapters of the Maharashtra rulebook, and who studies each one.

Statute studied by you

Statute studied by us

The two-certificate regime
Deduction authority and entity liability live under different certificates, each demanding its own registration and filing pattern.
We hold and service both, so the distinction never becomes your problem.
Slab arithmetic
Getting ₹175, ₹200 and the February ₹300 right per person, while honouring the ₹25,000 exemption for women, means checking every payslip against the statute.
The statute is encoded once in our templates and verified on every cycle.
Welfare fund windows
June and December remittances at wage-band rates arrive twice a year whether or not anyone remembers them.
Both windows fire from our calendar with the band maths pre-done.
January and July resets
Twice-yearly special allowance orders shift the wage floors your Pune salaries must clear.
Every order triggers an automatic salary sweep in our monthly review.
Unchanged central duties
The 7th and the 15th still govern TDS, PF and ESIC on your own registrations.
Those dates govern our registrations instead, receipts enclosed.
What a miss costs
12% yearly interest plus damages to 25% of arrears, recoverable from your company.
Recoverable from ours, which is precisely what you are paying to achieve.

Statute studied by you
The two-certificate regime Deduction authority and entity liability live under different certificates, each demanding its own registration and filing pattern.
Slab arithmetic Getting ₹175, ₹200 and the February ₹300 right per person, while honouring the ₹25,000 exemption for women, means checking every payslip against the statute.
Welfare fund windows June and December remittances at wage-band rates arrive twice a year whether or not anyone remembers them.
January and July resets Twice-yearly special allowance orders shift the wage floors your Pune salaries must clear.
Unchanged central duties The 7th and the 15th still govern TDS, PF and ESIC on your own registrations.
What a miss costs 12% yearly interest plus damages to 25% of arrears, recoverable from your company.

Statute studied by us
The two-certificate regime We hold and service both, so the distinction never becomes your problem.
Slab arithmetic The statute is encoded once in our templates and verified on every cycle.
Welfare fund windows Both windows fire from our calendar with the band maths pre-done.
January and July resets Every order triggers an automatic salary sweep in our monthly review.
Unchanged central duties Those dates govern our registrations instead, receipts enclosed.
What a miss costs Recoverable from ours, which is precisely what you are paying to achieve.
Month 1
Name reservation and MCA filings open
Month 2
Incorporation certificate granted
Month 3
PAN, TAN and GST registrations done
Month 4
PF, ESIC and both PT certificates
Month 5
Banking operational, payroll tools set
Month 6
Pune payroll finally runs compliantly

The statute gives no credit for good intentions.

Late statutory money in Pune compounds like anywhere in India: 12% a year in interest, damages stepping up to 25% for the duration of the default.

On our model the certificates, codes and deadlines all belong to Foo Falcon Technologies, and so does any accrual that ever arises.

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How one Pune filing default builds over 180 days Interest with damages layered on
₹6,200 Day 1
₹41,500 Day 30
₹1,84,000 Day 90
₹3,12,000 Day 180
Illustrated for a small payroll and one default. Multiply the wage bill and the trajectory multiplies with it.
Recovery follows the registration
Pune payroll on your registrations You
Pune payroll on Versatile's registrations Versatile

Pune teams often start as a Mumbai satellite and inherit half-configured Maharashtra payroll. We rebuild it properly on our own certificates. Compare a Pune build-out both ways in the EOR versus entity calculator with genuine salary data.

Dividing the Pune payroll month into your work and ours.

Your side: pay decisions and one sign-off. Our side: the statute, the certificates, the challans and the file.

You run

  • Compensation strategy for the Pune team
  • Sign-off on the monthly payroll summary
  • Sprint plans and delivery, untouched by us

We handle

  • Statute-checked gross-to-net each cycle
  • Both PT certificates kept in good standing
  • TDS lands on the 7th, PF and ESIC on the 15th
  • Welfare fund in the June and December windows
  • Payslips, Form 16 and the register set

You run
  • Own Pune pay levels
  • Sign one summary
  • Run the sprints
  • Make the business calls

We handle
  • Encode the MH statute
  • Keep both PT certs
  • TDS on the 7th
  • PF, ESIC on the 15th
  • June welfare window
  • December welfare window

When something happens in India, it is ours.
A certificate compliance query lands Our desk resolves it
A January or July order publishes We sweep salaries
A payslip needs explanation We walk it through

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

Second-city teams, first-class setup.

Pune rosters frequently begin life as an extension of someone's Mumbai payroll, configured by copy-paste. We stand each Pune team up natively on our certificates, so nothing is inherited half-right.

The statute lives in the template.

Month-sensitive and gender-sensitive slab rules are exactly the kind of logic humans fumble in spreadsheets. Ours are encoded, reviewed each cycle and re-verified whenever the state amends a rate.

Twice-yearly resets, swept automatically.

When Maharashtra publishes its January and July special allowance orders, our review runs every Pune salary against the new floors the same cycle. No flag from you is needed, ever.

Everything priced into one line.

Certificates, slabs, welfare fund windows, wage sweeps and the full central filing set all sit within the flat monthly employment fee.

Second-city teams, first-class setup.

Pune rosters frequently begin life as an extension of someone's Mumbai payroll, configured by copy-paste. We stand each Pune team up natively on our certificates, so nothing is inherited half-right.

Copied configuration is the quietest source of Maharashtra errors.

The statute lives in the template.

Month-sensitive and gender-sensitive slab rules are exactly the kind of logic humans fumble in spreadsheets. Ours are encoded, reviewed each cycle and re-verified whenever the state amends a rate.

Rules belong in systems, not in someone's memory.

Twice-yearly resets, swept automatically.

When Maharashtra publishes its January and July special allowance orders, our review runs every Pune salary against the new floors the same cycle. No flag from you is needed, ever.

The sweep you never think about is the one protecting you.

Moving someone across

Re-platform an existing Pune payroll onto our desk.

We take over rosters from providers and internal desks alike: the year-to-date position is reconciled certificate by certificate, continuity is preserved everywhere it matters, and the next salary date is met.

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

Our benchmark migration carried 200 records across with the salary date never at risk.

Supporting evidence

Examine the entity your Pune team would join.

That entity is Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, incorporated in Bengaluru in 2022, employing client teams nationwide.

  • 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

Email us for the incorporation certificate and the PDF comes back without a pitch attached.

200

records in our largest re-platformed payroll, reconciled line by line

33

monthly cycles delivered consecutively to one client, none contested

5 days

from a Pune offer acceptance to the first 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.

What Pune-team clients say after the statute changed hands.

Engineering leaders with Pune rosters describe payroll before and after our desk took the Maharashtra rulebook.

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Bharath Rasoi KS Rajeshwari Founder, Bharath Rasoi
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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.

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The Maharashtra rulebook, priced flat for Pune.

One $149 monthly fee per employee spans employment, payroll and the full statute. $129 beyond twenty heads. Recruitment optional at 12% of CTC.

Employer of Record

Pune payroll absorbed
$149 /employee/mo

Employment, monthly payroll and Maharashtra's certificate regime in a single flat rate. The twenty-first head steps every seat down to $129.

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  • Employment through our Indian entity
  • Maharashtra statute encoded and run
  • Both PT certificates serviced
  • TDS, PF and ESIC filed on time
  • Payroll live within five working days
  • Compliance owner named to you
  • Employee payslip portal included
  • Later migration to your entity
  • Employment through our Indian entity
  • Maharashtra statute encoded and run
  • Both PT certificates serviced
  • TDS, PF and ESIC filed on time
Four more inclusions
  • Payroll live within five working days
  • Compliance owner named to you
  • Employee payslip portal included
  • Later migration to your entity

Re-platforming a Pune roster? Sales will sequence the certificates.

Recruitment

Pune engineering pipeline
12% of annual CTC

12% of annual CTC on junior and mid-level Pune searches, payable at day ninety. Senior roles run 15%, leadership is scoped per mandate, and your own candidates are free.

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  • Nine-day shortlist delivery
  • Pune engineering pay data
  • Interviews around your schedule
  • Day-ninety invoicing only
  • Senior searches at 15%
  • Leadership quoted individually
  • No charge for your candidates
  • Placement on either entity
  • Nine-day shortlist delivery
  • Pune engineering pay data
  • Interviews around your schedule
  • Day-ninety invoicing only
Four more details
  • Senior searches at 15%
  • Leadership quoted individually
  • No charge for your candidates
  • Placement on either entity

Building a whole Pune pod? Sales will bundle the mandates.

Threshold at twenty-one

$149 $129 /employee/mo

Once the roster holds twenty-one heads, $129 applies to every seat from that cycle onward.

The statute work inside $149

  • Statute-compliant Pune employment contract
  • Cycle computation with dual review
  • Slab rules applied per employee
  • The 7th for TDS, the 15th for PF and ESIC
  • Both welfare fund windows remitted
  • Payslips, Form 16, full registers
  • Monthly evidence pack delivered
  • Settlements computed at exit

Volume without asking

$149 $129 /employee/mo

Existing and new seats step down in the same month, automatically.

Inside the fee

  • Statute-compliant Pune employment contract
  • Cycle computation with dual review
  • Slab rules applied per employee
  • The 7th for TDS, the 15th for PF and ESIC
  • Both welfare fund windows remitted
  • Payslips, Form 16, full registers
  • Monthly evidence pack delivered
  • Settlements computed at exit

Recruitment, when engaged, bills 12% of annual CTC at day ninety for junior and mid-senior mandates. Salaries and contributions pass through at exact remitted value. Hardware bills at usage through partners. Check the crossover in the EOR versus entity calculator for your case.

Pune payroll questions under the Maharashtra statute.

Eight questions from employers building Pune teams, answered with the state detail the statute actually requires.

Does Pune payroll differ from Mumbai payroll?

The governing statute is identical, both cities sit under Maharashtra law, so the certificate regime, slabs, welfare fund windows and wage resets match. What differs is market salaries and the practical detail of your team's setup, which is why we configure each Pune roster natively rather than copying a Mumbai file.

How is professional tax charged for Pune employees?

On Maharashtra's slabs: as of September 2026 a salary above ₹10,000 a month draws ₹200 monthly with February charged at ₹300, the ₹175 band starts at ₹7,501, and women earning up to ₹25,000 are exempt. Deductions run under one certificate while the entity's own liability runs under a second.

What are the PTRC and PTEC in practice?

Two distinct registrations Maharashtra requires of every employer: one authorising employee PT deductions, the other covering the organisation's own enrolment and annual payment. Missing either is a compliance gap. Both already exist and stay serviced on our side.

When does labour welfare fund fall due for a Pune team?

In the June and December half-yearly windows, at rates tied to wage bands, ₹25 with ₹75 employer share stepping to ₹50 with ₹150 as of 2026. The remittances go out from our calendar with the band mathematics handled per employee.

What resets in January and July?

Maharashtra's special allowance orders, which move the minimum wage floors; the cycle in force spans July 1 to December 31, 2026. After each order our review sweeps every Pune salary against the revised floors, although engineering pay sits comfortably above them.

Can we build a Pune team without an Indian entity?

Yes, that is the model. Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd employs the team on its Maharashtra and central registrations, you direct the work through a service agreement, and one USD invoice covers everything monthly.

How soon can a Pune engineer be on live payroll?

Five working days after the offer is signed. If we source the role, a shortlist lands within nine days and the 12% CTC fee for junior and mid-level positions is invoiced only once day ninety arrives.

At what point should Pune payroll come back in-house?

When you hold both PT certificates, a MahaShram registration and a finance team ready to run them, a processor might do. Under three months of engagement, contractors are the better instrument. Past forty to fifty stable heads, an owned desk generally beats our fee, and we will flag it.

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  • PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
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