How are Salaries for Officials, Public Employees, and Armed Forces Calculated in 2024? How Many Ways are There to Calculate Salaries in 2024?
How Will Salaries Be Calculated for Officials, Public Employees, and Armed Forces in 2024?
Salary Calculation from January 1, 2024, to June 30, 2024:
According to Decree 204/2004/ND-CP which stipulates the salary coefficient.
The salary for officials, public employees, and armed forces is calculated using the following formula:
| Salary = Base Salary x Salary Coefficient || --- |
The current base salary is VND 1,800,000/month.
Example: The salary for a Deputy Lieutenant Officer in the police force is calculated as follows:
The salary coefficient for a Deputy Lieutenant Officer in the police force is: 4.20
The base salary is VND 1,800,000/month if there are no changes from January 1, 2024, to June 30, 2024.
Therefore, the salary for a Deputy Lieutenant Officer in the police force is: VND 7,560,000/month (excluding allowances).
Salary Calculation from July 1, 2024:
In line with Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018, a new salary structure will be designed for officials, public employees, and armed forces as a part of the salary reform. The structure includes:
| Actual Salary = Basic Salary + Allowances (if any) || --- |
Additionally, after the salary reform, a bonus component will be added. Therefore, if officials, public employees, and armed forces receive bonuses, this will be a new component added to their income.
Thus, there will be a change in the way salaries for officials, public employees, and armed forces are calculated from July 1, 2024. However, transitioning from the old salary to the new salary for officials, public employees, and armed forces will ensure that their current salaries do not decrease.
How will salaries for officials, public employees, and armed forces be calculated in 2024? Are there different ways to calculate the 2024 salary?
What's the Roadmap for Salary Reform According to Resolution 27?
Based on Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018, the salary reform roadmap is as follows:
From 2021 to 2025 and Vision to 2030
For the Public Sector
- Starting in 2021, new unified salary policies will be applied for officials, public employees, and armed forces throughout the entire political system.
- In 2021, the minimum salary for officials and public employees will be equal to the average minimum wage in the enterprise sector.
- Periodically increase the salary levels in line with the Consumer Price Index, economic growth rate, and the state's budget capacity.
- By 2025, the minimum salary for officials and public employees will be higher than the average minimum wage in the enterprise sector.
- By 2030, the minimum salary for officials and public employees will be equal to or higher than the highest regional minimum wage in the enterprise sector.
For the Enterprise Sector
- From 2021, the state will periodically adjust regional minimum wages based on the recommendations of the National Wage Council. Enterprises will implement salary policies based on negotiations and agreements between employers and employees or their collective representatives; the state will not directly intervene in the salary policies of enterprises.
- Manage labor and salary in state enterprises by linking salary costs to business tasks until 2025 and moving towards allocating business tasks by 2030.
What Are the Guidelines for Salary Reform?
Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018 outlines the guidelines for salary reform as follows:
- Salary policy is a particularly important policy of the socio-economic policy system. Salaries must truly be the main source of income ensuring the livelihoods of employees and their families; paying correct salaries is an investment in human resource development, creating motivation to increase labor productivity and work efficiency. It contributes significantly to social progress and equity, ensuring political and social stability and promoting quality and sustainable growth.
- Salary policy reform must ensure overall, systematic, coordinated, and inheritable considerations while effectively addressing the limitations and inadequacies of the current salary policy. It must adhere to the principle of distribution according to labor and the objective economic laws of the market economy, taking labor productivity growth as the basis for salary increases, meeting international integration needs; with a roadmap suitable to the socio-economic development conditions and resources of the country.
- In the public sector, the state pays salaries to officials, public employees, and armed forces based on job positions, titles, and leadership positions, in line with the state's resources and public service revenue, ensuring a reasonable correlation with labor market wages. Proper remuneration and reward policies should be implemented based on labor productivity, creating motivation to improve work quality and efficiency, professional ethics, and public service ethics, contributing to clean and efficient political system operations.
- In the enterprise sector, salary is the labor price formed on a market basis agreement between employees and employers, with state management. The state regulates minimum wages as the lowest floor level to protect disadvantaged workers, and it's a basis for salary agreements and labor market regulation. Salary distribution is based on labor results and business efficiency, ensuring harmonious, stable, and progressive labor relations within an enterprise.
- Salary policy reform is an objective requirement, a significant task demanding high political determination in building a socialist rule-of-law state and improving the socialist-oriented market economy. It promotes administrative reform; reorganizes the political system for operational efficiency and streamlines personnel; innovates the organizational and management system, enhancing the quality and efficiency of public service providers.
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