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 20 September 2026

Salary-Calculator.in is an independent reference site and a set of 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 an employee at a given pay level in a given city takes home in a month, is answered across the pay rules for the matrix cell, a dearness allowance order revised twice a year, a separate house rent allowance order keyed to city classification, a transport allowance table, the pension contribution rate, a health scheme subscription slab 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.

Scope

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

Pay. The central pay commissions, the pay matrix, 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, because the 7th CPC matrix governs every central government salary until that Commission reports.

Allowances. Dearness allowance, house rent allowance by city classification, transport allowance, and the wider set of allowances administered through Department of Expenditure and DoPT orders.

Pension. The Old Pension Scheme, the National Pension System, the Unified Pension Scheme, commutation, retirement gratuity and family pension.

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 VIII 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, and are named only where a central rule has to be set against them. 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

Each rate, date and ceiling 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 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.

Aggregators, coaching portals and forum threads are never the source for a figure, and a press report is used for chronology alone. Which sources are ruled out, and why each one is, is set out in the editorial policy.

Calculators

The calculators cover salary under the pay 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, so a reader who distrusts the arithmetic can check it by hand from what is shown. Nothing entered into a calculator leaves the browser, and the privacy policy sets out what is and is not collected from a visitor.

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. 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. What makes a report useful, and what happens to one once it is accepted, are set out on the contact page.

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.

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. Where a page here and the governing order disagree, the order prevails.
What does Salary-Calculator.in cover?
Four subject areas for Indian central government employees and pensioners: pay, covering the central pay commissions, the pay matrix, pay fixation and the annual increment; allowances, covering dearness allowance, house rent allowance, transport allowance and the wider allowance set; pension, covering the Old Pension Scheme, the National Pension System, the Unified Pension Scheme, 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.
Where do the figures on Salary-Calculator.in come from?
Every figure on this page names its primary document inline, with the number and the date. That means an Office Memorandum by its 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. Aggregator sites, coaching portals, forum threads and Wikipedia are not cited.
How often is Salary-Calculator.in updated?
Every page carries a visible Updated date, which changes 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.
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.

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).