8th Pay Commission: The government has announced the formation of the 8th Pay Commission in January 2025, which will lead to revision of salary and pension of more than 1 crore central government employees and pensioners of the country. With this, discussions have intensified regarding the fitment factor
8th Pay Commission: The government has announced the formation of the 8th Pay Commission in January 2025, which will lead to revision of salary and pension of more than 1 crore central government employees and pensioners of the country. With this, discussions have intensified regarding the fitment factor. What will be the fitment factor for government employees in the 8th Pay Commission. The salary structure of the employees is decided on the basis of the fitment factor. Amidst rising inflation and increasing burden of expenses, the employees want the government to keep their demands in mind this time. In the last two pay commissions, the demands of the employee side were not fully accepted, but this time they will get 2.57 fitment factor?
What is the fitment factor?
The fitment factor is the multiplier by which the new salary is fixed by multiplying the old salary. In the 7th Pay Commission, it was kept at 2.57, due to which the minimum wage was increased from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000.
Demand of the Employee Association
The employee side of the National Council JCM (NC JCM) has submitted 15 demands to the government, in which the demand to keep the fitment factor more than 2.57 is important. They say that in view of inflation and the current standard of living, the minimum wage should be fixed as per the recommendations of the 15th Labor Conference (1957). Apart from this, the employees have also demanded the merger of some pay levels, improvement in allowances and revision in retirement benefits. They suggest that the new salary structure should be implemented from January 1, 2026.
Will the government accept the demand?
Experts believe that the government will hardly accept all the demands. Former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg believes that the government can limit the fitment factor to 1.92.
What happened in the previous pay commissions?
6th Pay Commission: Employees had demanded a minimum salary of Rs 10,000. The commission did not consider it right. Later it recommended Rs 5,479. Later it was increased to Rs 7,000.
7th Pay Commission (2015): The employee side had demanded a minimum salary of Rs 26,000 (3.7 times increase). The commission kept it at Rs 18,000 and the fitment factor at 2.57 on the basis of Aykroyd formula.
