Structure of Military Salaries when Implementing Salary Reform according to Resolution 27
Military Pay Structure upon Implementation of Salary Reform under Resolution 27
In the afternoon of September 19, 2023, in his closing remarks at the Vietnam Economic and Social Forum 2023, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue emphasized the early implementation of a fundamental salary policy reform in 2024 as follows:
"This is a reform, not a regular salary increase. If nothing changes, the point in time we can apply is from July 1, 2024."
Thus, it is very likely that the salary reform for the Military will begin to be applied from July 1, 2024.
According to Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018, the construction, issuance of a new salary table system based on job positions, titles, and leadership positions replacing the current salary table system; transitioning from old salaries to new salaries, ensuring they are not lower than the current salaries.
For the armed forces, three new salary tables will be constructed as follows:
- 1 salary table for military officers, professional officers, and non-commissioned officers in the police force (based on positions, titles, and military ranks or grades).
- 1 salary table for professional military personnel and technical specialists in the police force.
- 1 salary table for defense workers and police workers (maintaining the current wage correlation between the armed forces and administrative officials).
The salary structure for the Military upon implementing the salary reform will include:
- Basic salary;
- Allowances;
- Supplemental bonuses.
Thus, the new salary structure of the Military when the salary reform in 2024 is implemented will consist of the three aforementioned components.
Military Pay Structure upon Implementation of Salary Reform under Resolution 27 (Image from the Internet)
Guiding Principles for Salary Reform under Resolution 27/NQ-TW 2018
In Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018, the guiding principles for salary reform are mentioned as follows:
- Salary policy is a particularly important policy within the economic-social policy system. Salaries must genuinely be the main source of income ensuring the livelihood of employees and their families; paying salaries correctly is an investment in human resource development, creating motivation to improve labor productivity and work efficiency, making a significant contribution to social progress and justice, ensuring political-social stability; promoting and improving growth quality and sustainable development.
- Salary policy reform must ensure comprehensiveness, systematism, synchronization, inheritance, and promotion of advantages, effectively addressing the limitations and inadequacies of the current salary policy; comply with the principle of distribution according to labor and objective economic laws of the market economy, using increased labor productivity as the basis for salary increases; meet international integration requirements; have a roadmap suitable to the economic-social development conditions and national resources.
- In the public sector, the State pays salaries to officials, public employees, and the armed forces according to job positions, titles, and leadership positions, suitable with State resources and public service revenue, ensuring reasonable salary relationships with the labor market; implement appropriate welfare policies and rewards based on labor productivity, creating motivation to improve work quality, work ethics, professional ethics, contributing to a cleaner and more efficient political system.
- In the business sector, salaries are the price of labor, formed on the agreed basis between employees and employers according to the market mechanism with State management. The State prescribes the minimum wage as the lowest floor level to protect vulnerable workers, while also serving as one of the bases for wage agreement and labor market regulation. Wage distribution is based on labor results and business production efficiency, ensuring a harmonious, stable, and progressive labor relationship in the enterprise.
- Salary policy reform is an objective requirement, an important task, requiring high political determination in building a socialist rule-of-law State and perfecting the socialist-oriented market economy institution; promoting administrative reform; renewing, organizing, and arranging the political system apparatus to be streamlined, effective, and efficient, reducing staffing; renewing the organization and management system, improving the quality and efficiency of public service providers.
the Government of Vietnam Proposes 06 Contents for New Salary Reform Expected from July 1, 2024
the Government of Vietnam has proposed a roadmap for salary reform for officials, public employees, and the armed forces with 6 reform contents under Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018 (expected to be implemented from July 1, 2024).
On behalf of the Prime Minister the Government of Vietnam, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra has just signed a report from the Government sent to the National Assembly regarding the implementation of several resolutions of the XIV National Assembly on thematic supervision, questioning, and the National Assembly's resolutions on thematic supervision, questioning from the beginning of the XV term to the end of the 4th session in the field of Home Affairs.
In the report, related to the salary field, the Minister of Home Affairs mentioned that following Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018 of the 7th Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee; Conclusion 20-KL/TW of the 4th Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee on economic - social affairs in 2021 - 2022 and Resolution 75/2022/QH15, Resolution 101/2023/QH15, the Government of Vietnam has reported to the Government Party Committee to report to the Central Committee, National Assembly on the results and roadmap for salary policy reform for officials, public employees, the armed forces, and workers in enterprises.
the Government of Vietnam has proposed a roadmap for implementing salary reform for officials, public employees, and the armed forces with 06 reform contents under Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018 (expected to be implemented from July 1, 2024), including:
(1) Constructing 5 new salary tables;
(2) Allowance regime;
(3) Bonus regime;
(4) Salary increase regime;
(5) Funding sources for salary policies;
(6) Salary and income management.
After 2024, continue to adjust salaries to compensate for inflation and partially improve in line with GDP growth until the minimum salary reaches or exceeds the minimum wage of region I (the highest region) in the enterprise sector as set out in Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018.
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