Every enterprise now has an actual Wage% under Section 2(y) — compliant, non-compliant, or quietly overpaying. Most HR and Finance teams have never calculated it. This is the checklist that tells you which one you are, built by the three people whose job it is to know: a Labour Lawyer, a CA, and a Labour Code technology expert.
No fluff. 8 pages. The exact formula, framework and 18-question checklist — nothing you have to fill out to use.
At ~50–55%, basic + DA meets the Section 2(y) threshold with no excess cost — this is the target zone most organisations are aiming for.
Most Labour Code 2.0 content stops at explaining the rule. That leaves two very different — and very expensive — mistakes invisible until someone actually runs your numbers.
The checklist walks you through calculating this number for your own organisation. Here's what each zone means once you have it.
Most providers bring you one of these three. This checklist was built the way an actual restructure should be run — with all three working off the same number.
Re-classifies every pay component — not just basic — against the Section 2(y) inclusion/exclusion test, and checks fixed-term, gig and contract workers are each documented correctly.
Quantifies the actual PF, ESIC and gratuity delta between your old and new wage base, and costs the indirect impact — overtime, leave encashment and the re-skilling fund.
Runs thousands of restructuring scenarios, auto-resolves the wages–gratuity–special allowance circular reference, and flags compliance drift by department every month.
This is exactly how Adrenalin WageSync — India's first Labour Code salary-restructuring technology, shortlisted for the Global Payroll Awards Innovation of the Year — runs every engagement: Labour Lawyer and CA sign-off, backed by simulation technology, so what you activate is compliant, costed and defensible.
This is what "getting your Wage% right" actually produces when a Labour Lawyer, a CA and Labour Code technology work through it together.
Wage structure assessment & compliance gap analysis
Structured Labour Code 2.0 recommendations
Secured & dedicated client environment
Decision-ready downloadable dashboards
Employee-wise wage inclusion/exclusion report, with guidance on how each component should be treated in payroll
ESIC applicability impact add-on report
Employee-wise gratuity impact analysis
Statutory bonus impact add-on report
Finalised Labour Code 2.0 compliant wage structure
Compliant appointment / salary revision letters, generated as PDFs
Labour Lawyer certification
Same diagnostic, three different industries. In each case, wage inclusion dropped after restructuring — because the pre-restructuring structures were over-compliant, not under.
Your Savings Roadmap — the complete diagnostic, with the Wage% formula, the zone framework, and all three expert checklists in one document.
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