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Senior counsel for founder-led enterprises and family-owned groups — across payroll, statutory compliance, labour law and the unglamorous work that compounds. We are compliance specialists and labour-law advisors. We work quietly, and at depth.
Specialist counsel
We are a firm of compliance specialists, payroll engineers and labour-law advisors. We work — at depth, and in confidence — with the people who run India's most operationally complex businesses. Where compliance ends, growth begins.
Operational
Monthly payroll, statutory filings and the entire EPF / ESI / PT machine — across multi-state operations and headcounts from twenty-five to five thousand.
Permitting
Permissions to operate — from first commencement to multi-state expansion. We take licensing as a calendar, not as a campaign.
Advisory
Independent reviews, vendor health-checks and tribunal representation — when the regulator calls, or, better, before.
Every Dithu engagement runs to the same three-act score — designed to take the noise out of compliance, and the noise out of the boardroom.
We begin with a confidential audit of your current payroll, compliance and HR posture. Two weeks, on-site where it matters, with a written report that lists what is broken, what is exposed, and what is over-engineered.
We design a payroll and compliance architecture that fits your business — not a template. We then implement it: vendor cutover, new SOPs, employee communication, and the SLA against which we will be measured.
Once live, your mandate is run, every month, by a named partner. Monthly close, quarterly health-check, annual audit-readiness review — and immediate response when the regulator calls.
Adjust the CTC to see the structural pay-slip every Indian employer must now produce — Basic at fifty per cent of CTC, statutory contributions on top, statutory deductions below. Numbers reconcile end-to-end.
Cost to Company
₹15,00,000/ year
Location (for HRA)
HRA at 50% of Basic
Tax regime
87A rebate to ₹12L · ₹75K std deduction
PF contribution
12% of ₹15,000/mo — EPFO ceiling
State (for PT & LWF)
Karnataka PT · LWF bi-annual
Flexi components
Earnings (in-hand basis)
Per Annum
Per Month
Basic Salary
50% of wages, per Code on Wages 2019
₹7,32,386
₹61,032
House Rent Allowance
50% of Basic
₹3,66,193
₹30,516
Special Allowance
Balance of CTC
₹3,44,593
₹28,716
Employer contributions
Per Annum
Per Month
Employer PF
12% of Basic, capped at ₹15K/mo
₹21,600
₹1,800
Gratuity Provision
4.81% of Basic
₹35,228
₹2,936
Total CTC
₹15,00,000
₹1,25,000
Statutory deductions (employee)
Per Annum
Per Month
Employee PF
12% of Basic, capped at ₹15K/mo
₹21,600
₹1,800
Professional Tax
Karnataka schedule
₹2,400
₹200
Labour Welfare Fund
Karnataka · employee share, bi-annual
₹20
₹2
Income Tax (TDS)
New regime · incl. 4% cess
₹88,635
₹7,386
Result
Per Annum
Per Month
Gross Salary
Basic + HRA + Special + Flexi
₹14,43,172
₹1,20,264
Net Take-Home
₹13,30,517
₹1,10,876
Retirement build-up
Annual PF (you + employer)
₹43,200
Gratuity entitlement / year
₹35,228
Reading the numbers
What six years of patient practice looks like, in figures verified annually under our ISO 9001 management-system audit.
6
Years in practice
Founded in Bengaluru, 2020
80+
Active client mandates
Across seven sectors
25,000+
Employees on monthly payroll
Across seven state jurisdictions
Zero
Regulatory defaults
In six years of practice
Electronics Manufacturing · Sriperumbudur
Took over a stalled labour-department application from the client's incumbent counsel; rewrote standing orders to align with the 2024 amendments, obtained certification from the Tamil Nadu commissioner in under nine weeks, and built the renewal calendar that has run automatically since.
Industrial Machinery · Multi-state
In 2021 we took over a fragmented payroll function for the Indian subsidiary of a US industrial group. Today we process monthly payroll, EPF, ESI, professional tax and statutory returns across seven state jurisdictions for over 1,400 employees — without a single late-filing penalty.
Enterprise SaaS · Bengaluru
Took over a chaotic payroll spreadsheet at headcount 80; designed an integrated payroll-cum-statutory flow across two states, set up the monthly close cadence, and was the compliance custodian through their Big-4 audit and US-subsidiary set-up.
We don't solicit testimonials. The notes below were left, unprompted, by clients over the past four years.
Dithu took over our payroll from a tier-1 firm and we have not had a single delayed return in four years. They make it look easy. It is not.
Apoorva Ramesh
Chief Financial Officer
Watching their team handle our seven-state payroll is like watching surgeons operate. Quiet, fast, no margin for error. We sleep better since 2022.
Murali Naatuvada
Chief Operating Officer
Most consultants sell you what they have. Dithu told us what we actually needed — half of which we hadn't asked for. Worth every rupee.
Vishnu Vardhan Kumar
Founder & Chief Executive
We accept new clients by referral and by careful matching with the partner who will lead the engagement. The sectors below reflect where our practice runs deep — not the limits of what we will consider.
Manufacturing
Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare
Technology & SaaS
Real Estate & Construction
Hospitality
Financial Services
Education
Logistics & Supply Chain
Family Offices
Energy & Resources
FMCG & Retail
Media & Publishing
Certifications & memberships
The four labour codes are finally in force across most states. We unpack the changes employers should plan for in their first wage cycle — and the silent traps in the new Industrial Relations Code.
Karnataka quietly shortened the factory-licence renewal grace window from 90 days to 30. We have already seen three clients caught out. A short guide to staying ahead.
Most growth-stage companies cross the threshold from outsourced HR to a real in-house function somewhere between headcount 150 and 400. We argue the trigger is rarely headcount alone.
A handful of the questions we hear most often. For anything specific to your situation, write in — initial conversations are confidential and at no cost.
EPF kicks in at twenty employees (ten in some notified states); ESI at ten employees with wages up to ₹21,000; Professional Tax thresholds and rates vary by state. We map all three to your actual headcount and roll out registration in days, not weeks.
Most of our work runs on a monthly retainer scoped to your headcount and state footprint. Litigation, registrations and one-off advisories are billed separately, at rates agreed before we start. No surprise invoices.
Two to six weeks, depending on data quality at the incumbent. We work alongside the outgoing vendor through the first close to avoid disruption — and we offer a no-charge parallel-run option for the first month on mandates above 250 employees.
Yes, with caveats. Below twenty-five, the economics rarely favour a partner-led mandate — but we run a junior-led starter pack at a flat retainer that grows with you as headcount and state footprint expand.
We are ISO 27001:2022 certified. All payroll data is encrypted at rest and in transit, segregated per client, accessible to a named two-person team, and purged on a schedule agreed at the start of the mandate. Data residency is India by default.
We are headquartered in Bengaluru and serve clients across India from a single office. For mandates with operations outside India — typically SEA or the GCC — we work with vetted local firms under a single point of contact at Dithu.
Initial conversations are confidential and unbilled. A partner will respond within one working day. If we are not the right firm for the work, we will tell you so, and where possible point you to one that is.
Direct lines
Anil Devnath
Managing Partner
anil@dithuconsultancy.com