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Chapter 2 of 6 · Payroll & Statutory

Build a salary structure

Define earnings, deductions and Flexible Benefit Plan components before you run payroll.

A salary structure tells the payroll engine how to split CTC into components. Comsky HRMS uses a flexible, component-based editor.

Set up a structure

  1. 1Go to App → Payroll → Templates and open the salary structure template editor.
  2. 2Add earning components (Basic, HRA, Special Allowance, etc.) and deductions.
  3. 3Structures are effective-dated — a change applies from a date forward and leaves historical runs intact.

How it feeds the engine

  • The engine computes PF, ESI, PT, TDS, gratuity and bonus from these components using rules-as-data — every rate, ceiling and slab is versioned, not hardcoded.
  • Basic/wages definitions drive the Labour Codes 2025 "50% of CTC as wages" rule automatically.

Tip: Assign the structure per employee. You can also override individual components on a single employee's salary record. Flexible Benefit Plan (FBP) allocation is a separate, related feature — see *Flexible Benefit Plan (FBP) & cafeteria*.

Related guides

Run your first payrollProcess a monthly run end-to-end — draft, review, approve, pay — and publish payslips.Allocate your Flexible Benefit Plan (FBP)Distribute your FBP amount across components to optimise take-home and tax.Salary revisions & arrearsRevise CTC with an effective date and let Comsky HRMS auto-compute back-dated arrears.