About SalaryTruth
Free, private salary tools for India's salaried professionals — built by one person who kept getting confused by his own payslip. No login. Every calculation runs in your browser, so the salary numbers you enter never leave your device.
Who's behind SalaryTruth
A designer who couldn't make sense of his own salary.
I'm Rajiv, and I lead experience design for a living. My whole job is taking complicated systems and making them understandable to the people who have to use them.
And yet, for years, I couldn't do that with my own salary. Every job switch followed the same pattern: an offer letter with a big CTC number, excitement — and then a first payslip that was thousands of rupees smaller than I'd mentally budgeted for. Where did it go? Employer PF, gratuity, a professional tax line, TDS calculated on rules I hadn't read. I'd open three online calculators and get three different answers, none of them explaining why.
Honestly, I'm still learning. Tax rules in India change every Budget — this year alone brought new slabs, a new Income-tax Act, a tripled gift exemption and a higher PF wage ceiling. If someone whose job is clarity finds this confusing, most people never stand a chance.
So I built the tools I wished I'd had: calculators that show their working, explain every deduction in plain English, and never ask for your email or your data. SalaryTruth is that project — built nights and weekends, kept free, and updated every time the rules change.
How we check our numbers
Being honest about what we are — and aren't.
I'm not a chartered accountant, and SalaryTruth isn't financial or tax advice. What I can promise is a careful, transparent process:
- Every rate and limit is checked against the primary source — the Finance Act, the Income-tax Act 2025 and Rules 2026, EPFO and Labour Ministry notifications — and the source is named in our methodology.
- Calculator results are tested against published worked examples (for instance, Budget 2025's ₹25 lakh → ₹3.43 lakh tax figure) before they go live.
- When a rule changes — like the PF wage ceiling rising to ₹25,000 in September 2026 — every calculator and guide is updated together, and the guide's date changes.
- An independent review by a chartered accountant is planned; this page will say so when it happens.
Spotted something wrong? Please tell me — corrections are fixed fast and I'm genuinely grateful for them.
Why we built this
Because most Indian salary tools are either wrong, ad-stuffed, or ask you to hand over your data.
Crores of Indian salaried professionals don't understand their own payslip. They don't know whether their PF is being deducted correctly, whether their HRA exemption is being applied, or whether the CTC on their offer letter is actually what it seems.
Existing tools either have outdated tax constants, wrong PF calculations, or lock basic features behind paywalls and email sign-ups. And many send the salary details you type to their servers — data that should be nobody else's business.
SalaryTruth is built differently: every calculation runs in your browser using JavaScript, and the numbers you enter are never sent to a server. We use PDF.js for local PDF reading and Tesseract.js for on-device OCR. When you close the tab, your data is gone. No account needed. No email required.
Our principles
Four things we refuse to compromise on.
Privacy first
Your salary is your most private financial data. The numbers you enter stay on your device — no database, no user accounts. (Like any website we see basic visit data; our privacy policy explains exactly what.)
India-specific accuracy
FY2026-27 tax slabs, 87A rebate, PF wage ceiling of ₹25,000 (updated 17 September 2026), HRA metro vs non-metro rules — built correctly for India.
Free forever
Every tool on SalaryTruth is completely free to use, with no limits and no hidden paywalls. That's a promise.
No dark patterns
No fake urgency. No email capture. No results hidden behind a sign-up. If you open a tool, you get the answer.
Our tools
Twelve free tools, built for the full job-switching lifecycle.
How it's built
Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No framework, and no salary data ever leaves your browser.