How much Salary Increase in 8th pay commission : Predicted Salary Boosts and What It Means for You !

Salary Increase in 8th Pay Commission and Salary after 8th Pay Commission

Before we go into the details of 8th Pay Commission salary Increase, we need to know about the two deciding factors to be taken into account for calculation of salary increase in 8th Pay Commission.

Salary Increase in 8th pay commission

The Increase in the rate of Dearness Allowance and Minimum Pay are the main factors which will decide the increase in the salary in 8th Pay Commission : [View the Calculator to See the expected increase in 8th Pay Commission ]

The following factors will play a vital role in calculation of rise in the salary of 8th Pay Commission

1. Determination of Minimum Pay as per 15th ILC norms and Dr.Aykroyd Formula based on the wage rate index in the year 2025 [ Read How Much Minimum Pay is expected ?]
2. Rate of DA as on 1.1.2026

These are the main factors to be taken into account for calculation of 8th CPC Fitment Factor based on this the Pay and allowances of entire central government servants will be calculated. So the 8th Pay Commission salary increase fully depends on these factors

Dearness Allowance and 8th Pay Commission.

So far the the rate of DA reached only 50% as on 1.1.2024 after 8 years. It is expected 3% increase will be added in DA with effect from 1.7.2024. So total 53 % DA will be paid up to 31st December 2024.

Balance DA instalments to be released in coming years are as follows

1. 1st January 2025
2. 1st July 2025
3. 1st January 2026

Only 3 DA instalments are left.

If the DA increase goes up at this rate, it will reach only around 70% in the next 3 instalments.

Salary After 8th Pay Commission

Since the DA increase will be restricted within 70% level, we can expect the fitment factor and salary in 8th pay Commission will be according to the Minimum Pay to be arrived by 8th Pay Commission. Read the Report on Fitment factor

The Pay Matrix introduced by 7th Pay Commission is now in vogue and we found this pay matrix very useful and easy to fix the pay on account of Promotion and Annual Increment and calculate the salary.

So 8th Pay Commission will not be able to recommend a better pay structure format than Pay matrix. So the pay commission just need to modify the Pay matrix incorporating the increase to be recommended in the 8th Pay Commission salary.

View the 8h Pay Commission Projected Pay Matrix