Personal finance, for Indian professionals

Unpakk your salary.
See your in-hand pay.

Stop guessing your monthly in-hand. Decode CTCs, evaluate stock options, and see exactly what hits your bank account—100% privately.

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CTC
25,00,000
monthly in-hand
1,78,507
the toolkit

Six tools. Every answer ends in a ₹ number.

Start with Salary below — type a CTC, see the breakdown. The other five take it from there.

tool · 01

Salary

CTC → real monthly in-hand. Both tax regimes, any Indian city, line by line. The numbers you see here are computed in this tab.

try a number ↓
monthly in-hand
1,78,507
from ₹25.0L CTC · take-home of 86%
Basic10,00,000
HRA5,00,000
− Income tax−₹3,12,312
− Employee PF−₹21,600
new regime · FY 25–26 · standard ded ₹75k

Offers

compare

Got more than one job offer? See which one actually pays more after tax.

Equity

ESOP

Have company stock options? See the tax you'll pay when you buy and when you sell.

Freelance

44ADA

Thinking of going freelance? See the rate where it pays more than a salary.

Open → Guide · soon

Negotiate

counter

Heading into a pay discussion? Work out your counter-offer and your lowest acceptable number.

Appraisal

soon

See what your raise really adds to your monthly take-home — not just the headline percentage.

Coming soon
what people ask

The questions people actually type into Google.

Every bracket has its own page with the breakdown, both regimes, and worked examples. FY 2025–26, verified against the tax engine.

go deeper

Guides for the tax-code rabbit holes.

Worked examples, edge cases, and the rules behind the numbers.

questions

What Unpakk is, and how it works.

The short version: every number is computed in your browser, verified against incometax.gov.in, and free.

What does Unpakk actually do?
Unpakk turns the abstract numbers in your offer letter into the one figure that matters — what lands in your bank account each month. Type a CTC and the salary calculator breaks it into basic, HRA, PF, gratuity, professional tax, and income tax across both the old and new regimes for FY 2025–26. Beyond salary, five connected tools cover the rest of an Indian professional's money decisions: comparing two or three offers side by side, ESOP taxation at exercise and sale, the freelance 44ADA-vs-salaried switch, decoding an appraisal letter, and modelling a negotiation counter-offer. Every tool ends in a rupee number, not a vague percentage.
Is Unpakk free? Do I need an account?
Free, with no account and no sign-up. There's no paywall, no "unlock the full breakdown" upsell, and nothing to install. Open a tool, type your numbers, read the answer. The site is supported by unobtrusive ads on the guide pages — never inside the calculators themselves.
How accurate are the calculations?
Every engine is built on the FY 2025–26 (AY 2026–27) tax rules and verified against incometax.gov.in and ClearTax. The tax engine applies the actual slab rates, the Section 87A rebate with marginal relief, the ₹75,000 standard deduction under the new regime, HRA exemption using the metro/non-metro 50%/40% rule, and city-specific professional tax. The calculation logic is open-source TypeScript with 100+ test cases — so the math is auditable, not a black box.
Is my salary data private?
Completely. Privacy isn't a policy here — it's the architecture. Every calculation runs inside your browser. Nothing you type is sent to a server, logged, or stored. When you close the tab, the numbers are gone. There's no backend to leak, no database of salaries, and no tracking pixel watching what you earn. We use privacy-respecting analytics that count page views without cookies or personal data.
Who is Unpakk for?
Salaried professionals in India who want a straight answer about their money — whether you're evaluating a job offer, deciding between the old and new tax regime, working out the tax on vested ESOPs, weighing a freelance switch, or trying to understand why a 30% hike barely moved your in-hand. It's built for the person who reads their payslip and thinks "where did the rest go?"
Which tax year does Unpakk use?
FY 2025–26, which is assessment year 2026–27 — the current financial year for income earned between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026. This includes the revised new-regime slabs, the ₹12 lakh effective zero-tax threshold for salaried employees, and the updated standard deduction.
— how it works

No backend. No network calls. The tax engine runs in your browser — close the tab, and the calculation is gone.

  • Private by design.
  • No account needed.
  • FY 2025–26 ready.