Tell us who you are hiring
The role, the salary you have in mind, and when you want them to start. Any role: we do not care whether they write code or close the books.
- No Indian entity required
- First pay in under 24 hours
- One wholly-owned Indian entity
Roles companies hire in India through Bridge91
The process
Four steps. Under 24 hours. Done.
On average, a new hire's first pay arrives within 24 hours of agreed terms, in any role, with the person legally employed in India and inside every statutory register they belong in.
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We onboard them
Employment contract, Provident Fund, ESI and tax deducted at source, all in place. On average, their first pay arrives within 24 hours of agreed terms.
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We carry the employment
Monthly rupee payroll, every statutory filing, health cover, reimbursements and HR support, handled by the same CA + CPA-led team.
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You do the work
One monthly invoice, in your currency, no FX fee. Your team delivers, and nothing else about India lands on your desk.
What we do
Everything your India hire needs. One partner.
Five services, delivered by the same CA + CPA-led team, on one agreement and one invoice. You are not assembling this from vendors, and you are not managing the seams between them.
The real numbers
The same person, hired two ways.
If you have been trying to move someone to the United States, this is the arithmetic that ends that conversation.
Relocate them to the United States
- Annual salary
- $120,000 to $150,000
- Visa and immigration fees
- $100,000+ per petition
- Relocation
- $10,000 to $30,000
- Time to first pay
- 12 to 18 months
- Certainty of outcome
- A lottery
- First-year total
- $250,000+
Hire them in India, through Bridge91
- Annual salary
- $25,000 to $45,000
- Visa and immigration fees
- None
- Relocation
- None
- Time to first pay
- Under 24 hours
- Certainty of outcome
- Certain
- First-year total
- $30,000 to $60,000
Up to $220,000 back, in year one.
Indicative market ranges for a senior professional, current as at 2026. Your figures depend on the role, the seniority and the state. We will model yours on a call. Our own fee sits outside these figures. Introductory offer: $59 per employee per month for your first two hires. From your third hire, our fee is 8% of what you pay each month for that person.
The undertaking
We carry every statutory obligation an India hire creates, and show you each one, itemised.
- No security deposit
- No minimum term
- One itemised monthly invoice
What we carry
Every obligation Indian employment creates, and who carries it.
This is the part companies discover late, usually at an audit or an exit, and the part a chartered accountant should be able to recite. Nothing below is folded into a single figure, and no row is dropped for looking uneventful.
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Provident Fund
Employer share, charged on basic pay. Required on wages up to ₹25,000 a month since 17 September 2026.
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Employees State Insurance
Only where gross pay is ₹21,000 a month or below.
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Professional Tax
Set by each state, so it depends on where the person works. Telangana charges ₹2,400 a year; Delhi charges none.
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Tax deducted at source
Quarterly Form 24Q. Annual Form 16 issued to the employee.
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Gratuity
Payable after five years of service. Provisioned monthly, not discovered later.
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Maternity leave
Employer funded. India provides no government subsidy for this.
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Shops & Establishments
Required in every state, including for people working from home.
Your web-based portal
Your month, in plain sight.
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Your admin
Two unpaid days in November for Neha Verma, entered before that month’s payroll runs.
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Your admin
The month’s invoice reaches you in your web-based portal before payroll runs, and we run payroll once it is paid.
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Pay date
October’s pay run shows Paid, beside the months before it.
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Your finance team
October joins the record, and the year’s payroll cost downloads as a CSV.
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How the portal protects your people’s data Your portal is hosted in the EU, with encrypted backups in Ireland and India.
Our edge
Not just an EOR. Your India partner.
Eight things you would otherwise have to ask for, chase, or find out about the hard way.
We design the salary structure before you make the offer
Provident Fund is charged on basic pay, not on total cost. How a package splits across basic, house rent allowance and travel allowance changes both your cost and your candidate’s take-home. We model it and show you both numbers before the offer goes out, rather than processing whatever figure you hand us.
Chartered Accountants and a US CPA run this, not a support queue
Bridge91’s statutory work is directed by a Chartered Accountant and US CPA who sits on our board: formerly KPMG and PwC, with more than ten years advising international businesses on Indian compliance and United States taxation. Every Chartered Accountant on the team is ex-Big 4. The people who answer your questions are the people who run your payroll.
Health cover starts on day one, on our own policy
Your people join Bridge91’s master group health policy, employees and contractors alike, active from their first day. No separate policy to arrange, no waiting period, no gap. We manage the claims and the renewal.
Contractors are handled to Indian tax law, not generically
Bridge91 CoR covers agreements drafted for the Indian framework, tax deducted at source with Form 16A issued annually, and GST treated correctly on every contractor invoice. Indian contractors are not a generic international category, and we do not treat them as one.
One wholly-owned entity, with no partner in between
Everyone we employ sits on Bridge91’s own Indian entity. There is no local partner firm in between that you never meet and cannot audit.
FEMA and the money that pays for all of it
A foreign company cannot wire salary into an Indian bank account without the documentation the Reserve Bank requires. You pay one monthly invoice in your currency, we receive it through an Authorised Dealer bank, and we pay your people in rupees. No FX fee: the bank converts your payment to rupees and we share its FIRC with you. You never touch RBI reporting.
The Labour Codes raise your costs
India has consolidated 29 central labour laws into four codes and they are now in force. The consequential change is that basic pay must be at least half of total remuneration, which lifts Provident Fund and gratuity for most employees. We track it and tell you what to restructure before it reaches an invoice. That is what a CA + CPA-led team does.
Laptops arrive, and they come back
We buy the hardware, configure it, deliver it anywhere in India, track it against the person holding it, and recover it when they leave, with a condition report at both ends. Getting a machine to a new hire in Hyderabad is a real problem, and it is ours to solve, not yours.
Commercial terms
Starting costs nothing.
You can begin with one person, with no minimum term. Nothing is held back, nothing is committed to in advance, and nothing appears on an invoice that was not explained before it did.
No security deposit
We hold none of your working capital before your first hire starts.
No setup fee
Opening your account, your agreement and your first employee costs nothing.
No minimum term
Start at one person and scale at your own pace. In the first three months you can leave on reduced notice.
Every cost itemised
One monthly invoice, in your currency, no FX fee.
Bridge91 Elevate
We also build the way out. That is deliberate.
An Employer of Record should not be somewhere you get stuck. When your India team is large enough to justify your own company, we incorporate it, obtain every registration, arrange FEMA-compliant banking, and move your people across without a missed payslip.
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Start with EOR
No Indian company, no registrations in your name, no statutory exposure. Bridge91 is the legal employer and you are the company they actually work for.
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Grow with Bridge91
More people, more states, more complexity. Nothing changes for you operationally: the invoice grows, the obligations stay with us.
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Elevate to your own entity
We incorporate your company, obtain every registration, arrange FEMA-compliant banking, and move your team across onto your own payroll.
The India advantage
India is not a discount. It is one of the largest technical labour markets on earth, and far more than a technical one.
Engineering is where the headlines are. The same market produces one of the world’s largest pools of qualified accountants, analysts, designers, marketers and commercial staff, all working in English.
- 1.5M
- graduates entering the workforce each year across engineering alone
- 5.4M
- working technology professionals, and a far larger commercial workforce beside them
- 5.5h
- of working overlap with the UK and most of Europe, and a real morning window with the US east coast
- <24h
- on average, from agreed terms to a new hire’s first pay
The arithmetic
What an India hire actually costs you.
Provident Fund is charged on basic pay, not on total cost. How a package splits changes both what you pay and what your candidate takes home, so we model it before the offer goes out, rather than processing whatever figure you send us.
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Basic pay drives the bill
The employer’s twelve per cent Provident Fund contribution and the gratuity accrual are both calculated on basic pay, which the Code on Wages requires to be at least half of total remuneration. Two packages worth the same total can carry materially different employer cost.
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Every line shown
Each person’s employment cost and our fee, each on its own line. In your web-based portal, the salary register shows each person’s gross pay, deductions, taxes and net pay.
One month, in proportion
- Basic ₹50,000
- House rent allowance ₹25,000
- Special allowance ₹16,595
- Employer provident fund ₹6,000
- Gratuity accrual ₹2,405
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Pay statement · Hyderabad, Telangana
Earnings
- Basic Provident Fund and gratuity are calculated on this line
- ₹50,000
- House rent allowance
- ₹25,000
- Special allowance
- ₹16,595
- Gross salary
- ₹91,595
Employer contributions
- Employer provident fund 12% of basic
- ₹6,000
- Gratuity accrual indicative, set aside monthly
- ₹2,405
- Your monthly cost
- ₹1,00,000
Rupees one lakh only
Illustrative structure, shown for one common salary split. Yours is built for the role before the offer goes out.
The people behind Bridge91.
Named people, with the credentials this work needs. Bridge91’s team has run accounting and tax in Hyderabad since 2014 and Employer of Record for foreign companies since 2017, and Unified Communications (Texas) has been an Employer of Record client of the team since 2017.
Naga Durga Sudhakar
Naga Durga Sudhakar is an ex-Big 4 Chartered Accountant with over two decades of experience in financial reporting and assurance, with a focused specialisation in IFRS and Ind AS. His work spans technical accounting advisory, regulatory compliance, and the practical application of financial reporting standards across complex business situations.
Sriram Vinnakota
Master’s in artificial intelligence from a Russell Group university in the UK. Has taken AI products from first idea to market launch. Leads the technology roadmap, including the Bridge91 web platform, and takes every first call.
Story games, he plays. Saved many worlds, he has. Stop before the credits roll, he will not.
Bhavani Shankar M
Shankar is a Chartered Accountant with deep expertise across audit, controllership, risk management, and CFO roles, built through engagements with Big 4 assurance, global banking, microfinance, and venture-backed consumer technology.
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Tell us who you want to hire.
Thirty minutes, no obligation, no pitch. Bring one role and the salary you have in mind. You will leave the call knowing what it costs, what it obliges you to, and how soon it can happen.
Or email contact@bridge91.com. Once you are a client, support is instant and 24/7, by WhatsApp, email and the web-based portal.