HR and payroll software for employers in Sargodha
Sargodha is a Punjab city with an agricultural economy around it: wheat, rice and sugarcane are the crops the district administration names, and the local industry list runs from citrus packing and cold storage to flour and rice mills, electric goods, textiles and sugar. StreamHCM is HR, payroll and attendance software for those employers, with Punjab's PESSI rules and federal EOBI on the same payslip.
Why a Sargodha register stops being enough
A lot of Sargodha companies still close the month from a gate book or one fingerprint machine, a WhatsApp group for leave, and a payroll sheet that one person in accounts understands. That is manageable while everyone is in one building on one set of hours. It starts to fail when a mill adds a second shift, a packing house takes on seasonal people, a school opens another campus, or a head office in Lahore or Faisalabad asks which days the Sargodha staff actually worked.
The district administration's profile describes an agricultural district and lists citrus grading, cold storage, flour mills, rice mills, electric goods, textile spinning and sugar among local industries, alongside smaller workshops. Those are different timetables. A cold store and a school do not share a roster. A mill and a trading house do not share a gate. StreamHCM keeps each workplace as a branch, with its own device, shifts and holiday calendar, and one payroll at the end of the month.
This is not a claim about how many of those units use any particular software. It is the shape of employment in the district, taken from the district profile linked under Sources. The HR software Pakistan page is the product overview. This page is the Sargodha version. Nearby Punjab cities with their own pages include Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Lahore.
Punjab payroll: PESSI beside EOBI
Sargodha is in Punjab, so the provincial social security institution is PESSI, the Punjab Employees Social Security Institution. It is not SESSI, which covers Sindh. A payslip copied from a Karachi template puts the wrong scheme on a Sargodha employee.
PESSI's own overview states that the employer contributes 6% of the wages of covered employees, and the employer may not recover that contribution from the worker. The wage ceiling is a setting, not a number this page is re-deriving. The PESSI contribution guide records the February 2026 notification that fixed the monthly wage ceiling for contribution at Rs 40,000, and the guide states the resulting cap. Confirm any later notification with PESSI before you change the setting.
EOBI is federal and applies beside PESSI. The contribution page on eobi.gov.pk states that the employer pays 5% of the minimum wage and the employee pays 1%. EOBI Circular No. 01/2026-27, dated 20 August 2026, applied the Islamabad Capital Territory minimum wage of Rs 40,700 from 1 July 2026, which is Rs 2,035 employer and Rs 407 employee per insured person, due by the 15th of the following month. That base is the figure EOBI uses. It is not, by itself, the Punjab private-sector minimum wage you should type into a Sargodha wage check. The EOBI contribution guide is the longer note.
The minimum wage by province guide records Punjab's last notified rate and says a 2026-27 notification had not been found when the guide was checked. Punjab also consolidated many labour statutes into the Punjab Labour Code 2026. The Punjab Labour Code guide sets out the commencement question. StreamHCM does not hard-code a private rate. You set the wage check, the PESSI ceiling and the EOBI base, and a new notification is an update to those settings. FBR salary tax under Section 149 is withheld from the annualised salary. Use the salary tax guide and the tax slab calculator rather than a slab reprinted on a city page.
What a Sargodha HR team switches on
Most employers start with the records, the gate and the payslip, and add the rest when a second site or a second shift appears.
Biometric and face attendance at the gate, plus mobile check-in for staff who move between a mill, a store and a sales route.
Shift rules for mills and packing houses, including a night shift that crosses midnight, grace minutes, and overtime that waits for approval.
Payroll with salary structures, allowances, loans and advances, PESSI as an employer cost, EOBI, and FBR Section 149 tax.
Leave policies for annual, casual, sick and other types, with balances and approvals in the employee app.
Employee records and a document vault for appointment letters and CNIC copies.
A branch for the Sargodha site and another for a Lahore or Faisalabad head office, with separate devices, holidays and statutory rules.
Mills, packing houses, schools and clinics
Flour mills, rice mills and the textile units in the district plan work around shifts. A busy season adds overtime that should be visible before the wage is paid. Citrus packing and cold storage add a different calendar: the busy weeks are not spread evenly across the year, and seasonal joiners should not live in a second spreadsheet. StreamHCM keeps permanent and other employment types on one system, and it can take an approved amount for the period as a salary component beside time-based pay. Manufacturing HR software describes the factory pattern. The statutory lines do not change because the product is grain or fruit. Sargodha is still Punjab, so PESSI and EOBI are the schemes to configure.
Schools, colleges and the university in the city are a different roster. Teaching staff, admin staff and drivers do not share the same hours, and a second campus should not mean a second payroll file. The school HR software page covers campuses. Hospitals and clinics in the city have night duties. A duty that starts in the evening and ends after midnight has to count as one shift. Hospital HR software describes that roster. Smaller trading houses usually want a shorter start: employee records, attendance and one payroll. That is HR software for SMEs.
Moving produce and finished goods between Sargodha and other cities is a logistics question as well as a factory question. Depots, drivers and warehouse gates are covered on HR software for logistics.
A Sargodha site and a head office in another city
Some groups keep the plant, the campus or the store in Sargodha and the accounts seat in Lahore, Faisalabad or Karachi. Because the system is cloud-based, both sides see the same attendance and the same payroll draft. Devices at the Sargodha gate store punches and send them when the connection returns, so a short outage does not wipe the day.
Holidays can differ by branch. A Punjab public holiday stays on the Sargodha calendar even when a Sindh branch does not observe it. Reports split headcount, attendance and cost by branch. Multi-branch HR software is the note on running both cities from one account. Attendance management and payroll software are the two halves.
Getting started in Sargodha
There is no Sargodha office to visit. StreamHCM's team is in Lahore, at 68 MB, Zainab Tower, Model Town, Link Road, and supports Sargodha customers remotely by phone, video and WhatsApp during Pakistani business hours. Setup is remote: import the employee list, connect the attendance device, map the shifts, and load opening leave balances.
Every plan includes a 14-day free trial. The usual trial is one site, a parallel payroll beside your current sheet, and a line-by-line comparison before you switch. No card is taken on this site. Request the trial from the contact page, or read pricing for the PKR plans. If you also employ people in Lahore or Faisalabad, start with the Sargodha branch and add the other branch once the first payroll matches, with PESSI on the Punjab branches.
Frequently asked questions
Sargodha is in Punjab, so PESSI applies to covered establishments, alongside federal EOBI and FBR salary tax. SESSI is the Sindh scheme and does not belong on a Sargodha branch.
PESSI's overview states an employer contribution of 6% of wages, and that share is not deducted from the worker. The PESSI guide on this site records the February 2026 wage ceiling of Rs 40,000. Confirm any later notification with PESSI before you lock the setting.
No. EOBI's 2026-27 circular uses Rs 40,700, which is the Islamabad Capital Territory minimum wage it adopted. Punjab's own notified minimum is a separate figure. The minimum-wage guide records what had been found for Punjab, and StreamHCM stores the number you configure.
Yes. Each branch has its own devices, shifts, holiday calendar and statutory rules. Both Punjab branches can carry PESSI, and a Sindh branch of the same group can carry SESSI, in one payroll run.
No. The team is based in Lahore and supports Sargodha customers remotely. The software is cloud-based, so nothing is installed on your own server. The 14-day trial does not take a card on this site.
Sources
- District Sargodha: district profile (sargodha.punjab.gov.pk)sargodha.punjab.gov.pk
- EOBI: contribution rates (eobi.gov.pk)eobi.gov.pk
- Employers' Federation of Pakistan: ICT minimum wage notification 2026-27efp.org.pk
- FBR Withholding Tax Rate Card, Tax Year 2027 (Section 149)download1.fbr.gov.pk
- PESSI overview: 6% employer contribution (pessi.punjab.gov.pk)
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