Basic Pay Calculator
Central government basic pay is a cell in the 7th Pay Commission pay matrix: your pay level picks the column, and the number of increments you have earned picks the cell. This finds yours.
How to use this calculator
- Choose your post to fill in its level, or choose the pay level yourself — the notification or your pay slip states it, for example Level 7.
- Enter your cell: 1 for the entry pay of the level, 2 after one increment, and so on.
- Choose the date, to use the matrix in force then.
- Calculate to see your basic pay, the next increment and the cells around yours.
How it is calculated
Each level starts at an entry cell. Every cell above it is the one before raised by 3% and rounded off to the nearest ₹100 — the rule the 7th Pay Commission used to build the matrix.
A fresh recruit starts at cell 1 of the post’s level. Each annual increment moves you up one cell until the top of the level, which the result gives too. The higher levels are short: Level 15 has eight cells, and Levels 17 and 18 one each.
Worked example
Income Tax Inspector through SSC CGL starts at Level 7, cell 1: ₹44,900, rising ₹1,300 at the first increment, up to ₹1,42,400 at the top of the level.
Run this worked exampleQuestions people ask
What is the difference between basic pay and salary?
Basic pay is the matrix cell. Salary adds dearness allowance, house rent allowance and transport allowance on top of it; the salary calculator works that out.
Related calculators
- Government Salary CalculatorBasic pay from your level and cell, plus DA, HRA and transport allowance at the rates in force, less NPS and your deductions.
- Annual Increment CalculatorYour basic pay year by year, one matrix cell at a time, stopping at the top of your level, with the date each increment falls due.
- DA CalculatorDA on your basic pay at the rate in force, and what a revision is worth in rupees.
- MACP CalculatorWhen your MACP financial upgradations fall due at 10, 20 and 30 years, and the pay level each one takes you to.
- 7th Pay Commission CalculatorRevised pay under the 7th Pay Commission: your pre-revised pay times the fitment factor, fixed at its cell in the pay matrix.
Where the jobs are
Indicative only. The official order or notification governs, and every figure should be checked against it before you act on it.