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What Is CTC

What Is CTC?

CTC (Cost to Company)

The entire monetary amount that they spend on an employee per year. It includes direct benefits, indirect benefits, and other allowances so you get a broad field view of employee cost.

Key Points:

  • It includes salary components, benefits and reimbursement.
  • It signifies the upper limit of what, in financial terms at least, each worker can cost.
  • CTC, unlike net pay, is not the take-away salary.
  • It helps companies assess the cost of employees in a year.
  • CTC is used to keep organisations abreast with the changing structure of compensation.

What Does Cost to Company (CTC) Include?

CTC may be commonly known as a salary package, but technically it is a 360° view of the total remuneration of an employee.

Inclusions:
  • Fixed compensation
    Salary and fixed allowances
  • Variable Pay
    This includes Bonus, commission, or incentives.
  • Other Perks
    Gratuity, medical insurance, leave travel.
  • Non-Monetary Perks
    Membership to clubs, over-meals, transportation facility, etc.
Cost to Company

What Is Cost to Company (CTC) Breakup?

CTC breakup is granular level details in terms of components of salary. It brings transparency to employees and assists organisations in keeping their payroll reports intact.

Base Salary

The non-variable component of an employee's compensation.

FA, Allowances

Extract consists of housing, journey, medical and so forth.

Refunds

Expenses for travel and business covered by the company.

Bonus

A performance-based or festival-related payout.

Reimbursements

Insurance, travel, and retirement contributions.

Benefits of CTC Reports

Accurate reports on employee CTC provide various benefits that go beyond payroll processing.

Organisational Benefits:

Transparency

Organised segregation of employee compensation details.

Compliance

Meets the requirements of tax & labour laws.

Budgeting

Makes it easier to accurately predict employee-related expenses.

Employee Benefits:

Transparency

Makes salaries just that much easier to understand.

Trust Building

Promotes transparency and communication between the employer and employee.

Financial planning

Enables better management of personal budgets

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Difference between Variable Pay, Net Pay, and Gross Pay

Knowing pay breakdowns is one of the keys to understanding an employee's Annual CTC Here's a comparison:

Net Pay and Gross Pay
Variable Pay
  • A part that is linked to performance or job-related aspects.
  • Covers bonuses, commissions and incentives
  • Aligned to organisational and individual objectives.
Net Pay
  • Net salary
  • Comprises income tax, provident Fund & other statutory cuts.
  • Represents employee disposable income
Gross Pay
  • Total before Deductions of Basic Salary, Allowance and Benefits
  • Note that this is pre-tax earnings but excludes variable pay
  • Is a major portion of the CTC report

This allows these components to be defined explicitly within accessible locations for all stakeholders of your payroll software management.

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