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Salary slip format

Salary slip format: what it should show, with a sample.

A salary slip (also called a payslip or wage slip) tells a worker three things: what they earned, what was cut and why, and what reached them. Here is a format you can follow, a filled sample, and every line in plain words.

1 Umiya Engineering Works
Ahmedabad · Payslip for September 2026
Paid on5 Oct 2026
2 Rakesh SolankiSupervisor · Monthly ₹22,000
Work26 of 26 days
Earned
3 Earned for 26 of 26 days₹22,000
Total earned₹22,000
Cut from salary
4 PF, saved in your name− ₹1,320
5 Professional Tax, paid to the state− ₹200
6 Advance returned− ₹2,000
7 Total cut− ₹3,520
8 Paid to you by bank₹18,480
This is the wage slip given under the Code on Wages.Signature of employer: ______________

A sample from our demo company. Umiya Engineering Works and Rakesh Solanki are made up for the demo; the layout is the payslip the Payslips app prints.

The sample, explained

Eight lines. Nothing hidden.

1
Whose slip, and for which month. The business name, the month the pay is for and the day it was paid. One slip per person, per month.
2
Who, and how they are paid. Name, the work they do, the pay type and rate, and the days the pay is based on. September 2026 has 30 days and 4 Sundays, so 26 working days.
3
Earned. Pay for the days worked. A full month earns the full ₹22,000. For 24 of 26 days this line would read ₹22,000 × 24 ÷ 26 = ₹20,308. Overtime, commission and bonus each get their own line below it.
4
PF. 12% of PF wagesverify. PF wages are the basic part of pay. Here basic is half of ₹22,000, so ₹11,000 × 12% = ₹1,320. The employer puts in 12% tooverify, from its own pocket, so that part is not a cut. PF wages count only up to ₹25,000 a month from 17 September 2026 (₹15,000 before)verify.
5
Professional Tax. A tax of the state. In Gujarat it is ₹200 in a month when pay is ₹12,000 or moreverify. Other states have their own slabs and some have noneverify.
6
Advance returned. Money taken earlier, coming back in parts. He took ₹12,000 for a bike repair and returns ₹2,000 a month. Keep this line apart from the government cuts so nobody mixes them up.
7
Total cut. ₹1,320 + ₹200 + ₹2,000 = ₹3,520. All cuts together should not be more than half of the payverify.
8
Paid to you. Total earned minus total cut: ₹22,000 − ₹3,520 = ₹18,480. Say how it was paid: bank, UPI or cash.
Why is there no ESI line?

ESI is medical cover. The worker gives 0.75% of pay and the employer 3.25%, for people paid ₹21,000 a month or lessverify. Rakesh is paid ₹22,000, so nothing is cut. For a worker who is covered, it is one more line under "Cut from salary".

Why is there no tax line?

Tax on salary (TDS) is cut only when the income of the whole year crosses the tax limit. Under the new tax regime there is no tax up to ₹12 lakh of taxable incomeverify. When tax is due, it shows as "Tax (TDS)" under the cuts.

What "verify" means. Every figure with this mark is a rule set by the government, as we read it in October 2026 from published summaries, not from the gazette itself. Rules change and differ by state. Check each one with your CA against the government notification before you use it.
The format

The format, line by line.

Copy these lines into your own slip, in this order. The last column shows what the sample above has in that place.

Line
What to write
In the sample
Business
The name of the business. Add the address if you print on plain paper.
Umiya Engineering Works, Ahmedabad
Month and pay day
The month the pay is for, and the day it was paid.
September 2026, paid on 5 Oct 2026
Person
Name and work. Add the employee number, PF number (UAN) and ESI number if you use them.
Rakesh Solanki, Supervisor
Pay type and rate
Monthly, daily, hourly or per piece, with the rate.
Monthly ₹22,000
Work
The days, hours or pieces the pay is based on.
26 of 26 days
Earned
One line for each kind of earning: pay for days worked, overtime, commission, bonus.
₹22,000
Total earned
All earnings added up. Many slips call this gross pay.
₹22,000
Cut from salary
One line for each cut, each with its name: PF, ESI, Professional Tax, Tax (TDS), advance returned.
₹1,320, ₹200 and ₹2,000
Total cut
All cuts added up.
₹3,520
Paid
Total earned minus total cut, and how it was paid. Many slips call this net pay or take-home.
₹18,480 by bank
Signature
On a printed slip, the signature or stamp of the employer.
A line to sign

Is there one legal format?

The Code on Wages asks an employer to give a wage slip on or before the day wages are paidverify. The exact form and its columns are set in the rules, and the rules of your state may ask for moreverify. This page is a working format that a worker can read. It is not a government form. Ask your CA which form your state asks for.

Other ways of paying

Daily, hourly, per piece: only one line changes.

The slip keeps the same shape for every worker. Only the "Earned" line is worked out differently. The cuts and the amount paid sit below it in the same way.

Earned line, by pay typeSeptember 2026
RSRakesh SolankiMonthly ₹22,000 · 26 of 26 days₹22,000
MPMeena ParmarDaily ₹450 × 24 days₹10,800
PDPooja DesaiHourly ₹90 × 182 hours₹16,380
ISImran ShaikhPer piece ₹8 × 1,840 pieces₹14,720
Umiya Engineering Works
Rakesh Solanki · September
₹18,480
Paid by bank on 5 Oct
PAID
Days worked26 of 26
Earned₹22,000
PF, saved in your name− ₹1,320
Professional Tax− ₹200
Advance returned− ₹2,000
Advance still to return₹10,000
How Payroll Bundals makes payslips

You lock the month. The slips are made.

In Payroll Bundals nobody types a salary slip. It comes out of the attendance and the salary run you have already checked.

Payslips are made for everyone when you lock the month in Pay.
Each worker gets a WhatsApp link to their own slip. It opens WhatsApp on your phone with the message ready, and you press send. The worker needs no app and no login.
A worker with no phone gets a printed slip with a line to sign. To keep a PDF, choose "Save as PDF" in the print window.
Every cut is named in plain words, with the advance still to return shown below.
PF, ESI and Professional Tax are worked out by fixed rules. No AI is used in salary.

Questions owners ask

Yes. Offices say salary slip or payslip, factories and sites often say wage slip. All three are the same paper: what was earned, what was cut, and what was paid.
There is no file to download on this page, and we do not offer anything that looks like a government form. You can copy the lines of the format into Word or Excel yourself. If you fill slips by hand, add up each one twice: most salary arguments start with a sum that does not match.
Gross pay is everything earned in the month before any cut. Take-home, or net pay, is what is left after the cuts and is what reaches the worker. On the sample, gross is ₹22,000 and take-home is ₹18,480.
In Payroll Bundals every person in the salary run gets a payslip, whichever way they are paid. Whether your business must give one to every worker, and in which form, is set by the wage rules of your state: check with your CA.
Your CA. The rates on this page are marked "verify" because PF, ESI and tax rules change and differ by state. Payroll Bundals works them out by fixed rules and shows the working, and your CA can look at it from their own login.

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