Payroll Outsourcing Services in Lahore
You keep your staff. We take the payroll — salary calculation and bank payment, payslips, EOBI, PESSI registration and contributions, attendance and leave records, joining and exit documentation, one invoice.
Khawaja Manpower (SMC-Private) Limited — a registered Pakistani company
What we run every month
- Salary calculation, your approval, bank payment
- Payslips to every employee
- EOBI — federal, filed monthly
- PESSI — your provincial filing
- Attendance, leave, joining and exit records
Lahore employers don’t all have the same payroll problem
The city’s employer base is unusually mixed, and each type breaks in its own way.
| Who you are | What actually hurts |
|---|---|
| Corporate office on Main Boulevard, Gulberg or Ferozepur Road | One overloaded HR person running payroll on a spreadsheet for a head office and two upcountry sites |
| IT or software company in Johar Town or the technology parks | Variable allowances, probation periods, fast joining and exit |
| Manufacturer in Kot Lakhpat, Sundar or Raiwind Road | Worker records and PESSI registration that a buyer’s social audit reads line by line |
| Retail chain with outlets across Lahore | Attendance from nine locations, in nine formats, days late |
| Distribution and FMCG field teams | Staff who never come to the office, so nobody can prove who worked what |
Lahore is Punjab — and so is our own base
An employee working in Lahore registers with the Punjab Employees Social Security Institution, an attached organisation of the Punjab Labour & Human Resource Department operating under the Provincial Employees’ Social Security Ordinance, 1965. The establishment registers first, then each eligible employee, and contributions run monthly on PESSI’s cycle. It is the same institution, system and rhythm we already work in from Rawalpindi — no new jurisdiction to learn on your payroll. EOBI is federal and sits alongside PESSI, not inside it. A Lahore company that has done EOBI but never touched PESSI is common, and fixable — we tell you which is missing before we quote, not after.
Punjab notifies its own minimum wage, on its own timetable
Punjab sets minimum wages under the Punjab Minimum Wages Act, 2019. A tripartite board recommends, and the Punjab Labour & Human Resource Department issues the notification that makes a rate enforceable, published on its own site and in the official gazette.
Punjab’s notification does not land on the same date as Sindh’s or Islamabad’s — so a Lahore head office with Karachi staff is following two notifications issued months apart.
The numbers circulating on HR blogs and news sites disagree with one another. We work from the current Punjab notification and re-check it at every revision.
The multi-outlet problem, specifically
Lahore throws up more multi-site employers than anywhere else we work — retail chains, restaurant groups, clinic networks, depots. The failure is rarely the arithmetic.
One attendance format
Nine outlets submitting in three formats is the actual problem. One format, agreed up front, ends most of it.
One cut-off date
Everyone submits by the same day. No negotiating per outlet, every month.
A named person per outlet
Someone accountable for submitting — not “the branch”, a person.
A chase list
We name the outlet holding the run up instead of quietly guessing a number for it.
A leave record per employee
Kept centrally, so a branch manager cannot rewrite it after the fact.
Reconciled before calculating
By the time the numbers are computed they already tie back to the attendance.
The monthly cycle
A payroll month runs to a calendar, not to goodwill.
Cut-off
Attendance, leave, overtime, joiners, leavers and salary changes by an agreed date.
Calculation
Computed against your salary structure and policy.
Your review
You see the payroll register before any money moves.
Payment & payslips
Bank transfer on the agreed date; payslips to every employee.
Filings & reporting
EOBI and provincial contributions filed, then your summary and one invoice.
Registered with the bodies that matter
We are a registered Pakistani company and a registered employer. Incorporation, tax and statutory registrations are all in place, and the documents are shared directly with clients during vendor prequalification.
SECP
Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan — our company incorporation
EOBI
Employees' Old-Age Benefits Institution — registered employer, contributions filed monthly
Provincial social security
PESSI, SESSI, IESSI or ESSI — registered by the employee's place of work
FBR
Federal Board of Revenue — tax registration and proper tax invoices
Companies the Khawaja Manpower group has worked with
Three decades of manpower, outsourcing and payroll work across energy, telecom, engineering and industry — for operators who audit their vendors before they appoint them.
Client names and marks are the property of their respective owners and are shown to describe past engagements of the Khawaja Manpower group.
Lahore without a Lahore office
Our office is in Rawalpindi, and there is no Lahore branch.
Less of a gap than it sounds, because payroll is administrative. Filings, bank transfers, payslips and records are produced from a desk, approvals move on email and WhatsApp, and PESSI is the same provincial institution from either city. Where something genuinely needs doing in person in Lahore, we say so and arrange it.
What stays yours: your employees, their contracts, your salary structure, your hiring decisions, your supervision. We keep the deduction records — but tax filing and tax advice stay with your own tax consultant.
Frequently asked questions
We have nine outlets in Lahore. How do you handle attendance?
One format, one cut-off date, a named person per outlet who submits it. We reconcile before calculating, and we name the outlet holding the run up instead of guessing a number for it.
Lahore mein PESSI ka kaam kaun karega jab aapka office Pindi mein hai?
PESSI poore Punjab ka ek hi idara hai — Lahore aur Rawalpindi dono Punjab mein hain. Tareeqa waisa hi hai, aur zyadatar kaam daftar mein baith kar hota hai. Lahore jana zaroori ho to hum pehle bata dete hain.
Some of our IT staff are on contracts, not employment. Can you run both?
We administer payroll for the people you employ. Whether someone is an employee or a contractor is your call with your own advisor — we will not reclassify anyone for you.
We are mid-way through the year. Can we switch now?
Yes. We take over from an agreed cut-off and carry opening balances and deduction records across. A parallel first month is recommended.
Will our staff get payslips and a PESSI card?
Payslips are issued monthly to every employee. PESSI benefits follow from registration and are administered by PESSI itself — we complete and maintain the registration that makes them eligible.
Do you cover other cities too?
Yes — see Karachi, Islamabad, and the full service at payroll outsourcing in Pakistan.
More from Khawaja Manpower
Payroll is one of several things we do for employers in Lahore. These pages cover the rest.
Get a payroll quote for Lahore
Send your Lahore headcount, any other cities your staff work in, and your payroll cut-off date. You get a per-employee monthly rate, what it includes, and a transition plan.
