UPS payout calculator

This calculator works out the payout under the Unified Pension Scheme, the assured-pension option within the National Pension System that is open to central government employees from 1 April 2025. It computes the assured monthly payout at 50 per cent of your last 12 months’ basic pay, the dearness relief on top, the one-time lump sum paid at superannuation, and the family payout. Enter your figures below; the result updates as you type. The formula, the assumptions, and a worked example follow, so you can check the figure by hand.

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Your payout at a glance

What the calculator computes

The calculator takes three inputs: the average of your basic pay over the last 12 months, your qualifying service in years, and the current dearness relief. From these it works out the assured payout under the Unified Pension Scheme, the lump sum at retirement, and the family payout.

The first output is the assured monthly payout, 50 per cent of your average basic pay, reduced in proportion where your service is under 25 years and lifted to Rs. 10,000 where the formula falls below it. The second is the dearness relief, added on the payout so it keeps pace with prices. The third is the monthly payout in hand, the payout plus dearness relief. The fourth is the lump sum at superannuation, a one-time amount. It also shows the family payout, 60 per cent of the payout, that would be paid to your spouse.

The formula

The payout is defined against pay, not against the corpus. Under Regulation 15 of the PFRDA (UPS) Regulations, 2025, the assured payout is:

Assured payout = 50 per cent of the average of the last 12 months’ basic pay, multiplied by the qualifying service in months divided by 300

Basic pay is the pay in your pay matrix Level; dearness allowance is not part of it, though dearness relief is added to the payout afterwards. The division by 300 is the proportion for 25 years, so 25 years or more gives the full half, and shorter service gives a linearly smaller share, down to the floor at 10 years. Where the computed figure is below Rs. 10,000 and you have at least 10 years of service, the minimum guaranteed payout of Rs. 10,000 applies. With fewer than 10 years, there is no assured payout, and only the accumulated corpus is available.

The full payout is guaranteed on one condition, the benchmark corpus. Your individual corpus must be at least the amount that would build up from the default contributions, timely and full, invested in the default pattern, with no withdrawals. Where the corpus meets the benchmark, the payout is the full 50 per cent figure above, which is what this calculator computes. Where it falls short, because contributions were missed, a non-default fund was chosen, or a withdrawal was not replenished, the payout is reduced in the same proportion. The government funds the guarantee through a contribution of about 8.5 per cent of aggregate pay to a separate pooled corpus, on top of its 10 per cent match to your individual corpus.

The lump sum at superannuation

Alongside the monthly payout, the Unified Pension Scheme pays a lump sum at superannuation, under Regulation 14. It is one-tenth of your monthly emoluments, basic pay plus dearness allowance, as on the date of superannuation, for every completed six months of qualifying service. It is in addition to the assured payout and does not reduce it. The calculator computes the lump sum from your average basic pay and the dearness relief you enter, taking the completed six-month blocks of your service; where your last basic pay differs from the average, use your last pay for a closer figure.

Tax treatment

The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2025 aligned the Unified Pension Scheme with the National Pension System for tax. The lump sum at retirement is exempt under Section 10(12AB) of the Income-tax Act, and the up-to-60 per cent final withdrawal is exempt under Section 10(12AA). Your own 10 per cent contribution is deductible under Section 80CCD(1), and the government’s pooled contribution is not taxed in your hands, since it never enters your individual account. The monthly payout, however, is taxable as a pension under the head Salaries, along with the dearness relief on it, so an assessee draws it net of tax like any other pension.

A worked example

Take an employee retiring on superannuation with an average basic pay over the last 12 months of Rs. 1,00,000, 30 years of qualifying service, and dearness relief at 60 per cent.

The assured payout is 50 per cent of Rs. 1,00,000, and because 30 years exceeds 25, the full half applies, so the payout is Rs. 50,000 a month. Dearness relief at 60 per cent adds Rs. 30,000, so the pension in hand is Rs. 80,000 a month. The lump sum is one-tenth of the monthly emoluments, Rs. 1,00,000 basic plus 60 per cent dearness allowance, which is Rs. 1,60,000, for each of the 60 completed six-month periods in 30 years, so it is one-tenth of Rs. 1,60,000, Rs. 16,000, times 60, which is Rs. 9,60,000, paid once. If a family payout became payable, it would be 60 per cent of Rs. 50,000, that is Rs. 30,000 a month, plus dearness relief.

Two variations show the range. An employee with 15 years of service on an average basic pay of Rs. 80,000 gets 50 per cent of Rs. 80,000 scaled by 15 over 25, which is Rs. 24,000 a month, above the floor. And an employee with 10 years on a low average basic pay of Rs. 45,000 computes to Rs. 9,000, below the minimum, so the Rs. 10,000 floor holds the payout there.

Notes and scope

The calculator is a guide for the assured payout of the Unified Pension Scheme, assuming the default contributions are kept up so the corpus meets the benchmark. It does not model a corpus that falls short of the benchmark, a final withdrawal, or the market return on the individual corpus. It does not compute the retirement gratuity, which a UPS retiree receives separately under the Central Civil Services (Implementation of UPS) Rules, 2025, nor the pension of an employee on the Old Pension Scheme, for which the Rule 44 pension calculator applies. Your payout is fixed by the record-keeping agency and the office on your service papers; this figure lets you check it. For the scheme itself, see the Unified Pension Scheme article.

See also

• Unified Pension Scheme
• National Pension System
• Old Pension Scheme
• Rule 44 pension calculator
• Central government pension
• Commutation of pension calculator
• Gratuity calculator
• Gratuity for central government employees
• Family pension
• Dearness relief
• Dearness allowance
• AICPI-IW
• Income tax for government employees
• 7th Central Pay Commission
• Central government employees in India

External references

• Department of Financial Services
• Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority
• Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
• Protean NPS (UPS enrolment)