8th Pay Commission Calculator
Enter your current 7th CPC basic pay and a fitment factor to see the revised basic pay and monthly salary it would produce. The government has not announced a fitment factor, so treat this as a what-if — move the slider to compare scenarios.
What the 8th Pay Commission is — and what is actually decided
The 8th Central Pay Commission will recommend revised pay, allowances and pensions for central government employees and pensioners. Here is the position as things stand, separated carefully from what is still speculation:
- Announced: the constitution of the 8th CPC was announced on 16 January 2025.
- Terms of Reference: approved on 28 October 2025.
- Chair: Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, a former Supreme Court judge.
- Report timeline: due within 18 months of the Commission's constitution.
- Fitment factor: NOT announced. No figure has been recommended or notified.
How a fitment factor actually works
A fitment factor is a plain multiplier applied to your existing basic pay to arrive at the revised basic pay:
Revised basic pay = current basic pay × fitment factor
The 7th CPC used 2.57, which took the minimum basic from ₹7,000 to ₹18,000 with effect from 1 January 2016. Note that the multiplier applies to basic pay only — not to your gross salary, and not to your basic plus allowances.
The part almost everyone gets wrong: your DA resets to zero
This is the single biggest source of disappointment when a Pay Commission lands, and it is why a large fitment factor does not translate into an equally large pay rise.
Dearness Allowance currently runs at 60% of basic pay (as of January 2026) and is revised twice a year, on 1 January and 1 July, tracking the All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers. When a new Pay Commission is implemented, that accumulated DA is subsumed into the revised basic pay and the DA counter restarts at 0%. That is how the transition has worked at previous Commissions.
This is why the calculator above shows your total today alongside the projection: the honest comparison is total-to-total, not basic-to-basic.
Compare scenarios instead of trusting one number
Because nothing is notified, the useful question is not "what will I get" but "how much does the answer move across the plausible range". The chart in the result panel plots your monthly total across fitment factors from 1.5x to 3.0x, with your current choice marked, so you can see the spread at a glance rather than anchoring on a single rumoured figure.
For reference points: the 7th CPC settled at 2.57, and staff-side submissions to the 8th CPC have sought figures in the 3.68–3.833 range. The eventual recommendation could fall anywhere, including below the 7th CPC's multiplier, since the Commission also weighs the DA already merged into pay.
What this calculator does not cover
- Allowances beyond the HRA rate you enter. Transport Allowance and the many post-specific allowances are excluded. HRA is left as a field you fill from your own payslip because the rate depends on your city classification.
- Income tax and deductions. This projects gross pay. For take-home after tax, use the salary calculator, and check your liability with the income tax calculator.
- Pension revision. Pensioners are covered by the Commission's terms of reference, but the arithmetic differs.
- Arrears. Whether and from when arrears are paid depends on the implementation date, which is not settled.
If you want to see what a revised salary compounds into over a career, the step-up SIP calculator models a contribution that rises each year, and the NPS calculator covers the pension side for employees under the National Pension System.