The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (January 16, 2025) approved the 8th Pay Commission. This commission has been formed to decide the salary and pension of central employees. Salary and pension will be determined from 2026 only on the basis of the recommendations of the 8th Pay Commission.
This commission has been constituted about a year before the completion of the tenure of the Seventh Pay Commission. The 7th Pay Commission will end on December 31, 2025. People largely associate Pay Commission with increasing salary and pension. With the announcement of the new Pay Commission, speculations have started as to how much the salary and pension will increase after the recommendations of the 8th Pay Commission.
There is also a discussion going on as to when this increased pension will be available. Meanwhile, how much salary and pension had increased after the recommendations of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Pay Commission. Apart from this, discussions are also going on about how soon the work on this new pay commission will start.
How much will salary-pension increase in the 8th Pay Commission?
8th salary commission The government will appoint the chairman and members within a few days. After this, this commission will prepare its report keeping in mind all the other facts including Consumer Price Index (IW). In this report it will be told how much the salary and pension of the employees needs to be increased.
The Commission uses ‘fitment factor’ to increase salary and pension. Fitment factor is the number by which the basic salary and pension decided in the previous commission is multiplied to determine the new basic salary and pension. This should be understood with an example.
If today the basic salary of an employee is ₹ 20 thousand and 2 fitment factor If imposed, it will increase to ₹ 40 thousand. If someone’s basic salary is ₹ 1 lakh then it will increase to ₹ 2 lakh. Apart from this, the Commission will decide the remaining allowances and payments to the employees.
There is a discussion going on about imposing a fitment factor of 2.86 on the basic salary in the recommendations of the 8th Pay Commission. There is also discussion going on at some places about imposing fitment factor 2.28. In such a situation, the basic salary of all the present grades will be decided from this. At present the lowest level employee gets a basic salary of ₹ 18000.
If fitment factor of 2.28 is applied on it then it will increase to more than ₹ 41 thousand. If fitment factor of 2.86 is applied then it will increase to more than ₹ 51 thousand. Whatever pay band and grade the employee has, his salary will be decided accordingly. You can understand this from this graph.
How much increased in the last pay commissions?
A fitment factor of 2.57 was imposed in the 7th Pay Commission implemented in 2016. That means then there will be 257% increase in basic salary. increase Had happened. Apart from this, during this period the pension was also increased by a fitment factor of 2.57. Then the basic pension also increased from ₹ 3500 to ₹ 9 thousand.
Similarly, in the 6th Pay Commission brought by the Central Government in 2006, the fitment factor was 1.86. Then the basic salary increased from ₹ 3700 to ₹ 7000. Due to this Pay Commission, major changes were seen in the country.
Apart from this, 40% increase in basic salary was given in the 5th Pay Commission. That means a fitment factor of 1.4 was applied in it. The same fitment factor was applied on pension also.
