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There is a big news for more than one crore central employees and pensioners of the country. You all have been waiting for the 8th Pay Commission for a long time and now an important update has come out on it. Every 10 years, the government constitutes a new pay commission to revise the salaries and allowances of employees. Now that the tenure of the 7th Pay Commission is ending in December 2025, all eyes are on the 8th Pay Commission.
Let us tell you in simple language when the new pay commission will be implemented and what effect it will have on your salary.
What is the latest update?
According to recent reports, the work of constituting the 8th Pay Commission has been completed in October 2025. Now the commission has been given about 18 months time to prepare its recommendations and submit it to the government. After this the government will approve these recommendations and then it will be implemented. It is natural for this entire process to take some time.
The biggest question: When will the increased salary be available?
This question is in the mind of every employee and pensioner. To understand this we have to look at the 7th Pay Commission. The 7th Pay Commission was constituted in February 2014 and its recommendations came into effect from July 2016. But, employees benefit from salary increase 1 January 2016 It was given from. That is, the government had also given arrears of full 6 months to the employees.
Similarly, it may take time till 2027 or 2028 for the 8th Pay Commission report to come and be implemented, but it is a matter of relief for you that you will get the benefit of increase in salary and pension. 1 January 2026 Will get it only from. This means that whenever it comes into effect, the government will pay you the entire arrears.
How much can your salary increase?
The most important thing in Pay Commission is ‘Fitment Factor’. This decides how much your basic salary will increase.
- In 7th Pay Commission: The fitment factor was kept at 2.57 times, due to which there was a big jump in the basic salary of the employees.
- In 8th Pay Commission (Estimate): It is expected that this time the government may increase the fitment factor to 3 times.
Whenever a new pay commission comes into effect, the existing Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) are reduced to zero and added to your basic salary. Same thing will happen this time also. How much your salary will increase after the merger of fitment factor and DA will depend on your post and grade pay, the picture of which will be completely clear only after the recommendations are implemented.