KVS teacher salary

A KVS teacher is a teacher of a Kendriya Vidyalaya, a central school run by the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan , an autonomous body under the Ministry of Education. The teaching posts run at three pay levels by the classes taught: the primary teacher (PRT) at Level 6, entry basic Rs. 35,400, the trained graduate teacher (TGT) at Level 7, Rs. 44,900, and the post graduate teacher (PGT) at Level 8, Rs. 47,600. In an X-class city the in-hand runs from about Rs. 66,000 for a PRT to about Rs. 88,000 for a PGT at the current dearness allowance of 60 per cent.

This page sets out that pay: the three posts and their in-hand, how the pay is built, the qualification each needs, how KVS teachers are recruited now that the standalone KVS exam has ended, and the career ladder to Vice-Principal and Principal. The take-home for a level is worked out by the salary by pay level calculator .

Pay and in-hand by post

The three teaching posts differ by the classes they teach and the qualification they need, and each sits at its own level of the pay matrix . The pay is the same as any other post at that level, so a PGT is paid like any Level 8 employee.

The in-hand figures are for an X-class city and rise with the annual increment within each level. Each level in the table deep-links into the salary by pay level calculator , which recomputes the take-home from the live dearness allowance rate.

How the pay is built

The gross is the basic plus the standard allowances, and the in-hand is the gross less the pension contribution. Take the PGT at Level 8 as the worked example.

The same build-up applies at each level with the level’s basic: the PRT on Rs. 35,400 and the TGT on Rs. 44,900 draw the same allowances as a percentage of their basic, so the in-hand scales down from the PGT figure. Income tax is nil at all three levels under the new regime, because the annual income stays below the Rs. 12 lakh rebate limit. There is no KVS-specific teaching allowance; a teacher draws the standard central allowances only. The take-home salary article works through the same computation.

What each post teaches and needs

The three posts form a ladder by the level of schooling, and the qualification rises with it. A PRT teaches the primary classes, a TGT the middle and secondary classes, and a PGT the senior secondary classes.

The Central Teacher Eligibility Test, conducted by the CBSE, is a qualifying gate for the PRT and the TGT, Paper I for the primary teacher and Paper II for the trained graduate teacher; it is not mandatory for the PGT. The age limits are for the general category, with the standard relaxations, five years for the Scheduled Castes and Tribes and three for the Other Backward Classes, on top.

Recruitment: the combined examination

How a KVS teacher is recruited has changed, and it is worth stating clearly because the older process no longer applies.

The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan used to conduct its own recruitment examination for its teachers, the last such standalone drive being the 2022 notification of about 13,404 posts. From the 2025 notification, KVS teachers are recruited through a combined examination for the Kendriya Vidyalayas and the Navodaya Vidyalayas , conducted by the CBSE as a national computer-based test, rather than by KVS alone. Recruitment Notification No. 01/2025, published in November 2025, carried about 9,921 KVS teaching and non-teaching posts, split across the PRT, TGT, and PGT grades, and the examination was held in January 2026. Selection is on the written test, with a document verification stage, and a demonstration or interview component has featured in the earlier cycles. The central government jobs hub sets the KVS route alongside the SSC and UPSC ones.

The career ladder

A KVS teacher can rise from the classroom into the supervisory and administrative grades, each a level of the pay matrix, though the routes between the teaching posts are limited.

A TGT can be promoted to PGT through a limited departmental quota, and a PGT can rise to Vice-Principal at Level 10 and then Principal at Level 12, the head of a Kendriya Vidyalaya. Above the school, the Principal can move into the KVS administration, as an Assistant Commissioner and a Deputy Commissioner at the regional and headquarters offices. Where regular promotion is slow, the Modified Assured Career Progression scheme grants a financial upgradation after 10, 20, and 30 years of service, so a teacher moves up in pay even without a change of post. The salary by pay level chart shows the pay at each rung.

Vice-Principal and Principal pay

The two heads of the school draw markedly more than the teachers. The Vice-Principal is at Level 10, the same entry basic of Rs. 56,100 as a directly recruited Group A officer, with an in-hand of about Rs. 1,01,000 in an X-class city, and the Principal is at Level 12, basic Rs. 78,800, higher still. These are reached by promotion from the teaching grades over a career, not recruited directly, so they are the top of a KVS teacher’s ladder rather than an entry point.

Allowances and pension

Beyond the basic, a KVS teacher draws the standard central-government allowances: dearness allowance at 60 per cent, house rent allowance by city class, and transport allowance by level and city. There is no separate teaching allowance. A teacher who joined after 1 January 2004 is on the National Pension System , contributing 10 per cent of basic plus dearness allowance against the government’s 14 per cent, or the Unified Pension Scheme if opted from 1 April 2025; the Old Pension Scheme is closed to post-2004 entrants.

How KVS pay compares

Because the teaching posts sit at the standard pay levels, a KVS teacher’s pay lines up exactly with the other posts at the same level. A TGT at Level 7 draws the same in-hand of about Rs. 83,000 as an Income Tax Inspector , and a PGT at Level 8 the same about Rs. 88,000 as an Income Tax Officer ; the pay is identical because the level is. What differs is the work and the qualification, not the money. The salary by pay level chart shows the entry pay for every level side by side.

See also

• NVS teacher salary
• Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
• Central Teacher Eligibility Test
• Salary by pay level
• Salary by pay level calculator
• 7th CPC salary calculator
• Income Tax Inspector salary
• Income Tax Officer
• Staff Nurse salary
• SSC CGL salary
• Central government jobs
• Pay matrix
• 7th Central Pay Commission
• Take-home salary of central government employees
• Dearness allowance
• House rent allowance
• Transport allowance
• Annual increment
• Modified Assured Career Progression
• Pay fixation on promotion calculator
• National Pension System
• Unified Pension Scheme
• Central government employees in India

External references

• Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
• Ministry of Education
• Central Board of Secondary Education
• National Council for Teacher Education
• Department of Expenditure