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What is Cost to Company or CTC salary? How is it calculated? If your CTC package is so high,
why do you get so little in hand? This article explains it all.
Your company offered you a salary of Rs. 6 Lakhs per year. That means you should be getting
Rs. 50,000 in hand every month. Even if you consider income tax, you should be getting about
Rs. 40,000 in hand.
But you get only Rs. 32,000 in-hand every month! Why? Where did the promised money vanish?
Is your company cheating you?
No! It is because the company promised you the salary as Cost to Company, or CTC.
So, what exactly is CTC?
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Simply speaking, CTC is the amount that you cost your company. That is, it is the amount that
the company spends ± a a ± because of employing you.
Thus, it is the money given to you (your in-hand component), plus the money spent

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You¶ll understand this better while we discuss the various components of your CTC salary, so
let¶s jump into it right away! We will also use an example parallel to the discussion, so that you
can understand the concept of CTC better.
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hand salary.
These are:
m Basic
m [earness Allowance ([A)
m Incentives or bonuses
m Conveyance allowance
m House Rent Allowance (HRA)
m edical allowance
m Leave Travel Allowance or Concession (LTA / LTC)
m ·ehicle Allowance
m Telephone / obile Phone Allowance
m Special Allowance
All the above are a part of your in-hand salary, and therefore, are a part of your CTC pay as well.
Example: Let¶s understand this using a simple example. Say your basic is Rs. 15,000 per month,
[A is Rs. 10,000 per month, you get conveyance allowance of Rs. 800 per month, and you get
HRA of Rs. 4,500 per month. So, your package so far is .
Now let¶s look at some of the other components of your CTC pay ± the parts that inflate your
CTC package but may not be actually given to you!

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It is mandatory for you to contribute 12% of your basic towards provident fund (PF). Your
employer makes an equal contribution (12% of your basic) to your PF account.
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about provident fund)
So, although this amount is not given out to you every month, for your company, it is an expense
that it incurs on you every month! Therefore, this forms a part of your CTC pay.
Example: 12% of your basic is Rs. 1,800 per month. That is, Rs. 21,600 per annum. Your CTC
package becomes Rs. 3,85,200.

·arious reimbursements that you get from your company can also form a part of your CTC
package.
This includes reimbursement of:
m edical bills
m Phone bills
m agazine subscriptions
m Book purchases, etc.
Example: Say you get reimbursement of medical bills of upto Rs. 15,000. So, your CTC package
becomes Rs. 4,00,200.
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ost respectable employers provide free health insurance cover to their employees and their
dependents. Some companies also provide life insurance for their employees free of cost.
The premium amounts paid for such insurance on your behalf can be included in your CTC
salary.
Example: Say you get a health insurance cover of Rs. 1 Lakh for yourself and your family. The
premium for this is Rs. 2,000. Thus, your CTC package becomes Rs. 4,02,200.
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any companies have in-house health centers, hospitals or other health care facilities where
medical care is provided free of cost to employees.
Companies work out a per-employee cost for such facilities, and can include that in your CTC
pay package.
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any companies provide free transport facility to their employees from their place of work to
the job location.
The cost of such transportation can be added to your CTC package.
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any companies run canteens or cafeterias for their employees, which provide subsidised meals
to the employees. Such subsidy can be included in your cost to company package.
Example: Let¶s say your company provides you lunch for Rs. 10, and the actual cost of that
lunch is Rs. 25. Thus, there is a subsidy of Rs. 15 per meal.
For 21 working days in a month, this is Rs. 315. Or, Rs. 3,780 per year. Thus, !
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The components of your CTC salary sound reasonable so far, right? After all, this is the money
that you get in one form or the other.
But some companies take the concept of cost-to-company too far! Look at the following:
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The bill for the office phone that you use can be included in your CTC salary too.
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Shocked? Its true! There are many companies ± especially large investment banks ± that include
your office space rent in your CTC package!! Yes, it defies logic, but it is true!
Example: Let¶s say your office is in Churchgate in umbai. Your have a small cubicle, say 6
feet by 8 feet (48 square feet). Let¶s say the going rate for rent for office space in that area is Rs.
200 per sq. ft. per month.
What is the cost of your cubicle in that case? Its Rs. 200 * 48 = Rs. 9,600 per month, or Rs.
1,15,200 per year.
When this is included in your CTC, !$%

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, a : Remember this when you read about the whopping, exorbitant salaries paid out to
fresh management graduates (Like the II Ahmedabad BAs)! Their large salaries might
include the office space rent as well!!
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We often hear people say that the salary of government employees is quite low.
Although there is truth in this, government salaries wouldn't seem too less if we look at it from a
³CTC´ point of view.
When we talk about government salaries, we only talk about the ³in-hand´ component. But we
forget that on a cost-to-company basis, it can be quite substantial.
What extras do government servants get? Here's a sample list:

m The 12% of basic that the government deposits in their PF accounts, just like private
companies
m embership of government clubs or gymkhanas
m Free stay at various circuit houses and government guest houses
m Free telephone connection at home
m Free car with driver
m Reimbursement of newspaper bills
m Free use of many libraries
m In case of defense personnel (Army / Navy / Air Force), a % subsidy on items bought
from their ³canteens´ (like groceries, appliances, etc.)
When these things are taken into account and salaries of government employees is considered on
a cost to company (CTC) basis, it won't seem too less compared to the private sector!

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