New Labour Code Impact on 18 LPA Salary
Pre-filled for 18 LPA CTC. Adjust sliders to match your exact salary structure.
⚠ Your basic (40%) is below the 50% minimum under new Labour Code. Employer must raise basic to 75,000 /mo.
Metro = Delhi / Mumbai / Chennai / Kolkata
Take-Home Change
-₹3,226/mo
Lower take-home — money goes to PF
Annual Impact
PF saved extra
₹43.2K/yr
Extra gratuity
₹8.7K/yr
New Labour Code Impact at 18 LPA — 2025
Under the New Labour Code, basic salary must be at least 50% of CTC. At 18 LPA, this means a minimum basic of ₹75,000/month. If your current basic is below this threshold, your employer must restructure your salary components — typically by reducing allowances like HRA, conveyance, or special allowance to accommodate the higher basic.
How This Changes Your PF
Higher basic means higher EPF contribution. At 50% basic on 18 LPA, your employee PF contribution rises to ₹9,000/month vs the current ₹7,200/month (typical 40% basic structure) — a difference of ₹1,800/month in take-home. Annually, that is ₹21,600 less in hand but more in your EPF corpus, which earns 8.25% tax-free interest.
Gratuity Impact
Gratuity is calculated on basic + DA. With higher basic under the new code, your gratuity entitlement after 5 years increases proportionally. At ₹75,000/month basic, the gratuity after 5 years is approximately ₹2,16,346 (formula: 15 days × years / 26). The new code also extends gratuity eligibility to fixed-term contract employees after just 1 year of service.
Tax Context at 18 LPA
Consider employer NPS contribution (Section 80CCD(2)) — not capped and saves tax regardless of regime. With higher PF deductions reducing take-home, optimising your tax regime becomes more important — every rupee saved in tax offsets the reduced in-hand from the higher PF contribution.