About Salary-Calculator.in
Who publishes Salary-Calculator.in, what it covers, how every pay, allowance, pension and tax figure is sourced, and how the site is funded.
Salary-Calculator.in is a 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 published by Salary-Calculator.in as an independent organisation. It is not a government website, it is not affiliated with the Department of Personnel and Training, the Department of Expenditure, 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. A single question such as what a Level 7 employee in a Class X city takes home in a month is answered across the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules 2016, 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, the National Pension System contribution rate, a CGHS 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.
Scope
The site covers four subject areas. Pay: the eight central pay commissions, the 18-level pay matrix, pay fixation, the annual increment, and the 8th Central Pay Commission as it progresses. Allowances: dearness allowance, house-rent allowance, transport allowance, and the other 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, gratuity and family pension. Income tax: the old and new regimes as they apply to salaried employees and pensioners, the retirement-benefit exemptions, and the Chapter VI-A deductions.
Alongside the reference pages, the site publishes 21 calculators. Each one shows 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 printed.
Sourcing standard
Every load-bearing figure traces to a primary document, and names it inline with its number and 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. Aggregator sites, coaching portals, employee-forum threads and Wikipedia are not cited; where such a source is correct, the underlying order it drew from is cited instead.
Recognised Indian press archives are used for context only, never for a rule or a figure. Where a rate has changed, the article states the effective date and the order that changed it, rather than reporting a bare current value.
The full standard, including how corrections are handled and how machine drafting is reviewed, is set out in the editorial policy.
Limits
Figures on this site are indicative. Where a page and the governing order disagree, the governing order prevails. 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.
Central government pay and pension rules change frequently. Dearness allowance is revised twice a year, tax slabs move with the Finance Act, and pension 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.
Funding and independence
The site is funded by Google AdSense display advertising, publisher identifier pub-5905124826063393. There are no affiliate links, no referral links, no sponsored posts and no paid placements anywhere in the editorial content. Nothing on the site is written, commissioned or slanted to serve an advertiser, and no advertiser sees or influences a page before it is published. Advertisements are programmatic, are kept visually separate from the content, and are not endorsements.
Advertising is not carried on stub pages, on the search page, or on this and the other policy pages.
Corrections
A factual error on any page is worth reporting, and a report that names the page and the governing order is acted on ahead of new writing. The editorial policy sets out what happens once a correction is accepted, and the contact page carries the address for correspondence when one is in service.