A big news related to the 8th Pay Commission is coming out, which can give great relief to crores of central employees and pensioners. The central government has started preparations to constitute the 8th Central Pay Commission.

In fact, the current salary structure is ending in December 2025, but the government has become active in the direction of appointing a new commission even before that. According to sources, recruitment for 42 posts including the chairman in the commission is going to be done soon and it is likely that the formal functioning of this new pay commission will start next month.

Fitment factor of 8th Pay Commission

The most important thing about the Pay Commission is the "Fitment Factor". This is a formula by which the new basic salary of government employees is decided. In simple words, new basic salary = old basic salary × fitment factor. In the 7th Pay Commission, this factor was 2.57, that is, if your basic salary was 10,000, then according to the new commission it became 25,700.

Now there is a discussion that in the 8th Pay Commission this factor can increase to 2.86. If this happens, then an employee's current basic salary of 20,000 can increase to 57,200. That is, a direct benefit of more than 37,000.

Whose salary will increase by how much

The effect of this change will be clearly visible on the pockets of the employees. Below are some estimated figures that show what effect the change in the fitment factor can have on different basic salaries. For example, if your old salary was 30,000, then in the 7th Pay Commission it became 77,100, but in the 8th Pay Commission the same salary can go up to 85,800. At the same time, some employee organizations are demanding that the fitment factor be increased to 3.68, due to which the old salary of 30,000 can reach 1,10,400.