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Part of what follows is set by Maharashtra and is not the same in the next state. The rest runs on central law and does not move at all.
Read this as a starting point, not as the last word. Addresses and rates here were right when they were checked and may not be today. Confirm the office and its address with the department itself, and take a professional view from your chartered accountant or labour law adviser before relying on any of it. Treat this as background, not advice. Offrd is independent of every office named above. Checked on 12 September 2026. If a detail has moved since, write to service@offrd.co.
Most small employers in Mumbai lose candidates in the gap between a verbal yes and a written offer. The work itself is not hard. Someone opens last month letter, changes the name and the salary, forgets to change the joining date, and sends a document with another employee details buried in the footer. That is the common failure, and it is a template problem, not a people problem.
Generating the letter from stored company details removes the copy and paste step. The entity name, the signatory, the registered address, the standard clauses and the salary structure sit in one place. What changes per candidate is the name, the role and the numbers.
The employer estimates the employee annual income, applies the regime the employee has chosen, allows the exemptions and deductions that have been declared, and spreads the resulting tax across the remaining months of the year. Declarations change during the year, so the monthly deduction changes with them.
That is why take home pay can move without any salary revision, and why the last quarter often carries a heavier deduction than the first.
The benefit is paid at the average daily wage for the three months preceding, so the payroll entry is not simply the last monthly salary. Provident fund continues. The leave does not draw down the earned leave balance, and treating it as ordinary leave is a payroll error rather than a policy choice.
Keeping the maternity record separate in the attendance register is what makes the eighty day eligibility check possible later.
CTC is what the employer spends. Take home is what reaches the employee bank account. Between the two sit the employer provident fund contribution, the employer employee state insurance share where it applies, gratuity provisioning, any insurance premium loaded into the number, and then the employee side deductions. None of that is hidden, but a single annual figure in an offer letter hides all of it.
The gap surprises new joiners in Mumbai more than anything else in the first month. Writing the monthly breakup into the offer letter removes the surprise before it becomes a resignation.
Maharashtra State Tax authorities under the Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975 - the Commissioner of Profession Tax for the State and the jurisdictional Profession Tax Officer / State Tax Officer (Finance Department).
It can, but an accepted offer is a contract, so withdrawal exposes the employer to a claim for the loss the candidate suffered by resigning elsewhere. Where an offer is conditional on references or a background check, say so in the letter itself.
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Last updated 12 September 2026