Which Assam cities does Offrd support?

Offrd has dedicated city pages for Guwahati, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tinsukia, Tezpur, Nagaon, Bongaigaon, and Sivasagar. Each page includes local EPFO contact details and compliance notes. Businesses outside these cities can still use Offrd, setup takes less than a day.

Is Offrd compliant with Assam Shops and Establishments requirements?

Yes. The templates and the payroll maths are built around the Assam Shops and Establishments Act, so offer letters, payslips and separation papers come out of the product itself.

What does Offrd cost for an Assam SME?

There are two. One is Rs 99 for each document or action, with nothing committed month to month. The other is Rs 50 for an active employee for a month, all features in and no minimum.

Which EPFO office covers Assam employers?

Assam has two main EPFO jurisdictions. The Guwahati Regional Office (ro.guwahati@epfindia.gov.in) covers central and lower Assam including Guwahati, Bongaigaon, Tezpur, and Silchar. The Tinsukia Sub-Regional Office (sro.tinsukia@epfindia.gov.in) covers upper Assam including Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, and Sivasagar.

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Automate offer letters, attendance, payroll, and HR documents. Built for small businesses across Guwahati, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tinsukia, Tezpur, Nagaon, Bongaigaon, and Sivasagar. Aligned to Assam's Shops and Establishments requirements.

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Which statutory offices does an employer in Assam deal with?

An employer here answers to Assam for some of this and to central law for the rest.

Professional tax

Professional tax is levied in Assam, under the Assam Professions, Trades. statute

Shops and Establishments

The Assam Shops and Establishments Act, 2022 - Assam Act No. ActKicks in at: As enacted, section 6 required every shop or establishment employing five. Deadline: Sixty (60) days from the commencement of the Act or from the date.Authority: Inspector-cum-Facilitator for the area/district, under the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator. sourceFiled at eodb.assam.gov.in.

Labour welfare fund

No general state labour welfare fund contribution for shops and commercial establishments could be confirmed. source

Worth knowing here

State-level page; see state_facts. Assam runs two Labour Courts (Guwahati and Dibrugarh) and three Industrial Tribunals (Guwahati, Silchar and Dibrugarh). The Inspectorate of Factories has its head office at Betkuchi, Lokhra, Guwahati 781040, zonal factory offices at Guwahati (Bhangagarh), Bongaigaon, Jorhat and Dibrugarh, and district factory offices at Guwahati, Nagaon, Silchar, Sibsagar, Tinsukia, Tezpur and Kokrajhar source

Not local at all

What is national stays national. Provident fund, employee state insurance, gratuity, bonus and salary tax deduction are the same for Assam as for any other district.

Confirm this before you rely on it. Any of this can change on a notification you will not see. Verify the office with the department, and take advice from your chartered accountant or labour law adviser on what actually applies to you. General information only, not legal or tax advice. Offrd is not affiliated with these offices. Last checked 12 September 2026. Corrections to service@offrd.co, please.

Which employees are covered by employee state insurance?

Employees earning gross wages up to 21,000 rupees a month, and up to 25,000 rupees where the employee has a disability. The scheme applies to factories and establishments with ten or more people, though for non factory establishments the threshold comes from a state notification and is not the same everywhere.

The employee contributes 0.75 percent of gross wages and the employer 3.25 percent, and contributions are due by the fifteenth of the following month. Once an establishment is covered it remains covered even if headcount later drops.

employee state insurance rates and ceiling

How do minimum wages change during the year?

Minimum wages are notified by the state for each scheduled employment and skill level, and most states revise the dearness allowance component twice a year. A rate that was correct in March can be out of date in April without anyone in the company noticing, because nothing in payroll flags it.

The exposure is not just the shortfall. Provident fund, employee state insurance and bonus calculations all sit on top of wages, so an under revised rate makes several numbers wrong at once.

how minimum wages work in India

Frequently asked questions

What happens when an employee crosses the wage ceiling mid year?

Contribution continues to the end of the contribution period in which the wage rose. The two periods run April to September and October to March, so the employee stays covered until the period closes.