Salary-Calculator.in

About Salary-Calculator.in

Who publishes Salary-Calculator.in, what it covers and what it leaves out, how every pay, allowance, pension and tax figure is sourced, and its limits.

Updated 10 September 2026

Salary-Calculator.in is an independent reference site and a set of 21 interactive calculators covering the pay, allowances, pension and income tax of Indian central government employees and pensioners. It is not a government website. It is not published by, affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Personnel and Training, the Department of Expenditure, the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare, the Central Board of Direct Taxes or any other authority, and it has no official standing.

The site exists because the governing material is scattered across departments. A single question, such as what a Level 7 employee posted in a Class X city takes home in a month, is answered across the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules 2016 for the matrix cell, a Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum on dearness allowance revised twice a year, a separate house rent allowance order keyed to city classification, a transport allowance table keyed to the pay level, the National Pension System contribution rate, a CGHS subscription slab keyed to basic pay, and the income-tax slabs for the relevant financial year. Salary-Calculator.in assembles those into one page and names the order behind each number.

Publication began on 1 July 2026. As on 12 August 2026 the site carried 252 reference articles, 4 policy pages and 21 calculators.

Scope

The site covers four subject areas, all of them central government.

Pay. The central pay commissions from the 1st to the 8th, the 18-level pay matrix notified as Part A of the Schedule to the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules 2016, pay fixation on appointment and on promotion, and the annual increment. The 8th Central Pay Commission is covered as a dated tracker rather than a forecast: it was constituted by Department of Expenditure Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025 and has until 3 May 2027 to report, so the 7th CPC matrix governs every central government salary until it does.

Allowances. Dearness allowance, currently 60% of basic pay with effect from 1 January 2026, house rent allowance at 30%, 20% or 10% by city classification, transport allowance, and the wider set of allowances rationalised by the 7th Central Pay Commission and administered through Department of Expenditure and DoPT orders.

Pension. The Old Pension Scheme, the National Pension System, the Unified Pension Scheme operative from 1 April 2025, commutation, retirement gratuity and family pension, all under the CCS (Pension) Rules 2021 and the orders of the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare.

Income tax. The old and new regimes as they apply to salaried employees and to pensioners, the standard deduction, the retirement-benefit exemptions and the Chapter VI-A deductions.

Service categories that draw from central government pay rules are within scope, so railway employees, the central armed police forces and the defence pay matrix each have their own coverage.

What the site does not cover

State government pay scales, state pension rules and state-level allowance orders are outside the scope. They are named only where a central rule has to be set against them, as with the gratuity ceiling, which is Rs. 25 lakh for a central government employee but is fixed separately by each state for its own staff.

Public sector undertaking pay scales, bank and insurance industry wage settlements, and private sector salaries are outside the scope for the same reason. So are general personal finance, investment product selection and company law. The site answers what a central government rule says and what it produces as a figure; it does not advise on what to do with the money.

Sourcing standard

Every load-bearing figure traces to a primary document and names it inline with its number and its date. That means a Pay Commission report by chapter or paragraph, an Office Memorandum by its full file number and date, the CCS Rules by rule number and gazette notification date, or an Income-tax Act section with the Finance Act year.

The test applied is whether a reader can retrieve the document from the citation alone. “A recent order” is not a citation. “Department of Expenditure OM 1/1(i)/2026-E.II(B) dated 22 April 2026” is, and it is what a page states when it gives the dearness allowance rate as 60%.

Salary and tax aggregators, coaching portals, employee-forum threads, SEO farms, personal blogs, social media and Wikipedia are not cited. Where one of them is correct, it is correct because it is repeating a primary order, and that order is cited instead. Recognised Indian press archives are used for context and chronology only, never to establish a rate, a rule or an entitlement.

The full standard, including the source hierarchy, how machine drafting is reviewed and how corrections are handled, is set out in the editorial policy.

Calculators

The site publishes 21 calculators, covering salary under the 7th and 8th CPC matrices, dearness allowance arrears, house rent allowance and its tax exemption, transport allowance, commutation, gratuity, family pension, leave encashment, MACP, GPF, the NPS corpus, the Unified Pension Scheme payout, and income tax under both regimes.

Each one prints the formula it applies and the order each rate comes from, on the page, in server-rendered HTML. A reader who distrusts the arithmetic can check it by hand from what is shown. Each calculator also works with JavaScript switched off, in the sense that the formula, the rate table and the sources remain readable; only the interactive computation requires it.

Nothing entered into a calculator leaves the browser. There is no backend, no database and no interface that could receive it, and the privacy policy sets out what is and is not collected, including the Google Analytics and AdSense cookies the site does set.

Limits on what these figures can be used for

Figures on this site are indicative. Where a page and the governing order disagree, the governing order prevails, and the citation on the page is there so the order can be checked directly.

Nothing published here is financial, tax or legal advice, and no page substitutes for the advice of a qualified professional or for a written clarification from the administering authority. Pay fixation, pension sanction and tax liability all turn on individual facts that a general reference cannot capture: the date and mode of entry into service, an option exercised under a particular rule, a period of service that does or does not qualify, a protected pay drawn on deputation, or a certificate the drawing and disbursing officer requires before an allowance is paid.

Central government pay and pension rules change frequently. Dearness allowance is revised twice a year, tax slabs move with the Finance Act, and pension and gratuity ceilings are periodically raised. Every page carries a visible Updated date, and the dated figures in the high-traffic clusters are reviewed on the cadence set out in the editorial policy.

Corrections

A factual error on any page is worth reporting, and a report is acted on ahead of new writing. The most useful report names three things: the page, the sentence or figure that is wrong, and the governing document that shows the correct position, cited by file number or rule number and date. A report that carries the primary order is verified against that order and fixed directly; a report without one is still checked against the governing document, and takes longer.

A published address for correspondence is not yet in service, so the site cannot at present receive correction reports or topic requests. The contact page is updated when an address is published, and the editorial policy sets out what happens once a correction is accepted.

External references

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is Salary-Calculator.in a government website?
No. Salary-Calculator.in is an independent reference site with no official standing. It is not published by, affiliated with, endorsed by or funded by the Department of Personnel and Training, the Department of Expenditure, the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare, the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority or any other authority. Government orders are published at doe.gov.in, dopt.gov.in, doppw.gov.in and incometax.gov.in, and where a page here and the governing order disagree, the order prevails.
Who publishes Salary-Calculator.in and who is accountable for what it says?
The site is published under the name Salary-Calculator.in, and the publisher is accountable for the accuracy of every page regardless of how a draft was produced. The site has been publishing since 1 July 2026. Pages are researched and drafted with the assistance of AI language models and are then checked against the primary orders before publication, a disclosure set out in full in the editorial policy.
What does Salary-Calculator.in cover?
Four subject areas for Indian central government employees and pensioners: pay (the central pay commissions from the 1st to the 8th, the 18-level pay matrix, pay fixation and the annual increment), allowances (dearness allowance, house rent allowance, transport allowance and the allowances rationalised by the 7th Central Pay Commission), pension (the Old Pension Scheme, the National Pension System, the Unified Pension Scheme operative from 1 April 2025, commutation, gratuity and family pension), and income tax for salaried employees and pensioners under both regimes.
What does Salary-Calculator.in not cover?
State government pay and pension rules, public sector undertaking pay scales, bank and insurance industry wage settlements, and private sector salaries are outside the scope, and are mentioned only where a central rule has to be contrasted with them. The site also does not cover general personal finance, investment product selection or company law. Defence personnel, railway employees and the central armed police forces are within scope, because they draw from central government pay rules.
How many articles and calculators does the site carry?
As on 12 August 2026 the site carried 252 reference articles, 4 policy pages and 21 interactive calculators, alongside 247 short placeholder pages that hold a link open until the full article is written. A placeholder is labelled on the page, carries no advertising, and is excluded from search-engine indexing and from the sitemap.
Where do the figures on Salary-Calculator.in come from?
Every load-bearing figure names its primary document inline, with the number and the date. That means an Office Memorandum by its full file number and date, a rule by its number and gazette notification date, an Act by section, or a Pay Commission report by chapter or paragraph. The current dearness allowance rate of 60% of basic pay, for example, is cited to Department of Expenditure OM 1/1(i)/2026-E.II(B) dated 22 April 2026, with effect from 1 January 2026. Aggregator sites, coaching portals, forum threads and Wikipedia are not cited.
Is Salary-Calculator.in written by AI?
Pages are drafted with the assistance of AI language models and are then verified against the governing orders before publication. Every load-bearing figure, date, file number and rule reference is checked against the primary document, and a claim that cannot be verified is deleted rather than hedged. The disclosure is made because a reader is entitled to weigh it. The verification, not the drafting, is what the editorial policy holds the site to.
How often is the site updated?
Every page carries a visible Updated date, which is changed whenever the content is substantively edited. The dated figures in the high-traffic clusters, meaning the dearness allowance rate, the income-tax slabs and standard deduction, and the pension and gratuity ceilings, are reviewed each time the governing authority issues an order affecting them. Dearness allowance moves twice a year, with effect from 1 January and 1 July, and is held in a single data file that feeds every article and calculator at once.
Are there affiliate links or sponsored posts on Salary-Calculator.in?
No. There are no affiliate links, no referral links, no sponsored posts and no paid placements in editorial content anywhere on the site. Nothing on a page is written, commissioned or slanted to serve a commercial arrangement, and no outside party sees a page before it is published or influences what it says. What is and is not collected from a visitor is set out in the privacy policy.
Do the calculators send the figures entered into them to a server?
No. Every calculator runs entirely in the visitor’s browser. Basic pay, pay level, city classification, age, length of service, pension amount and income are processed locally in JavaScript and are never transmitted. The site has no backend, no database and no application programming interface that could receive them. This is checkable: a visitor can open the browser network panel, work through any calculator, and see that changing values produces no outbound request.
Is Salary-Calculator.in free to use, and does it require registration?
Yes, the whole site is free, and there is no account, no registration, no login, no newsletter signup and no paywall. Every article and every calculator is open to any visitor. The only form on the site is the search box in the header. It submits by GET, so the search term does travel to the server in the URL and lands in the access log, but the lookup itself runs on the device against a pre-built index, so no search service receives it.
How is an error on the site reported?
A correction report is acted on ahead of new writing, and the most useful report names three things: the page, the sentence or figure that is wrong, and the governing document that shows the correct position, cited by file number or rule number and date. A published address for correspondence is not yet in service, and the contact page is updated when it is. Until then the site cannot receive correction reports.
Can articles from Salary-Calculator.in be reproduced?
The text and tables on the site are the publisher’s own work and are not placed in the public domain. The underlying government orders, rules and Pay Commission reports are public documents and can be obtained free from the issuing department, which is where anything intended for reuse should be taken from. A short quotation with a link to the page it came from is the ordinary courtesy and is not objected to.

References

  1. Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum 1/1(i)/2026-E.II(B) dated 22 April 2026 (dearness allowance raised to 60% of basic pay with effect from 1 January 2026).
  2. CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, notified by G.S.R. 721(E) dated 25 July 2016 (the pay matrix, at Part A of the Schedule).
  3. CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021, notified 20 December 2021.
  4. Department of Expenditure Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025 (constitution of the 8th Central Pay Commission, with 18 months from the date of constitution to report).