MACP calculator

This calculator works out your MACP financial-upgradation schedule and the pay after your next upgradation. The Modified Assured Career Progression scheme gives a central government employee up to three financial upgradations over a career, on completion of 10, 20 and 30 years of service, or 10 years in the same Level, whichever is earlier, to relieve stagnation where promotions are few. Each moves you one Level up in the pay matrix, fixed by Rule 13. Enter your service dates and pay below; the schedule updates as you type.

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How MACP works

The Modified Assured Career Progression scheme, in force from 1 September 2008 under DoPT Office Memorandum No. 35034/3/2008-Estt.(D), addresses a simple problem: in cadres with few promotion posts, an employee could spend a whole career in one grade. MACP gives three financial upgradations over a career so that pay does not stagnate, even where a regular promotion never comes.

An upgradation is a rise in Level and pay only. It is not a promotion: there is no change in duties, designation, or seniority, and it does not count as a promotion for any other purpose. Each upgradation moves you to the immediately next higher Level in the pay matrix, not the next promotional post and without skipping a Level.

When the upgradations fall due

The three upgradations fall on completion of 10, 20 and 30 years of continuous regular service, or 10 years in the same Level in the pay matrix, whichever is earlier, under the consolidated DoPT guidelines of 22 October 2019. The 10-years-in-a-Level test matters when you have been promoted: after a regular promotion, the next upgradation falls 10 years after you entered the promoted Level, which can be earlier than the plain 20 or 30-year career mark.

Crucially, the three upgradations are inclusive of regular promotions. A regular promotion uses up one of the three slots, and MACP fills only the remaining ones. So an employee promoted twice gets at most one MACP, and an employee never promoted can receive all three as MACP. The calculator takes the number of upgradations you have already had, and the date you entered your current Level, and works out when each remaining upgradation is due.

The pay after an upgradation

The pay on an MACP upgradation is fixed by Rule 13 of the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, the same method as on promotion. First, one increment is given in your current Level, moving you to the next cell. Second, that figure is placed in the next Level, at the cell equal to it, or the next higher cell if none is equal. So you gain at least one increment’s worth of pay, and the calculator reads the actual pay matrix to fix the figure. The increment date after the upgradation follows Rule 10, on 1 January or 1 July, and the FR 22(I)(a)(1) option to fix pay from your next increment is available.

A worked example

Take an employee who entered Level 6 and has had no regular promotion, currently at a basic pay of Rs. 42,300. The first MACP falls on completion of 10 years. One increment in Level 6 takes Rs. 42,300 to Rs. 43,600, and that figure is placed in Level 7, where the nearest cell at or above it is Rs. 44,900, so the pay is fixed at Rs. 44,900 in Level 7. The second MACP, at 20 years, moves the employee to Level 8, and the third, at 30 years, to Level 9, each fixed the same way on the pay of the day.

Now take an employee promoted from Level 6 to Level 7 at 8 years of service. That promotion uses the first slot, so no MACP falls at the 10-year mark. The next upgradation, an MACP, falls 10 years after entering Level 7, that is at 18 years, moving to Level 8; and the third, another MACP, at 10 years in Level 8, that is at 28 years, moving to Level 9. The employee has three financial upgradations in all, one promotion and two MACPs.

Notes and scope

The calculator applies the current notified rule: three upgradations at 10, 20 and 30 years, or 10 years in a Level, whichever is earlier, with a Very Good benchmark. It shows the pay after your next upgradation at your present pay; a later upgradation falls due years ahead, on a higher pay after intervening increments, so those rows show the Level and the date but not a rupee figure. It assumes continuous regular service and does not model breaks that do not count as qualifying service, nor a future promotion, which would use a slot and change the schedule. The figure is a guide; your upgradation is sanctioned by your office after screening. For the rules behind it, see the Modified Assured Career Progression article.

See also

• Modified Assured Career Progression
• Pay fixation
• Pay fixation on promotion calculator
• Pay matrix
• Annual increment
• 7th Central Pay Commission
• 7th CPC salary calculator
• CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016
• Grade pay
• Pay band
• Minimum pay
• Dearness allowance
• Take-home salary for central government employees
• Central government employees in India
• Department of Personnel and Training

External references

• Department of Personnel and Training
• Department of Expenditure