Salary Schedule of Police Officers Before and After the Salary Reform from July 1, 2024, According to Resolution No. 27: How Will It Change?
How does the Police Officer Salary Table change before and after the Wage Reform from July 1, 2024 according to Resolution 27?
Police Officer Salary Table before the Wage Reform:
Based on the regulations in Section 1, Table 6 issued along with Decree 204/2004/ND-CP regarding the salary coefficient for police officers.
Currently, the statutory pay rate is 1,800,000 VND/month.
The salary of police officers is calculated as follows:
| Actual Salary = Statutory Pay Rate x Current Salary Coefficient || --- |
The salary table for police officers is as follows:
| No. | Rank | Salary Coefficient | Salary (VND/month) || --- | --- | --- | --- || 1 | General | 10.40 | 18,720,000 || 2 | Lieutenant General | 9.80 | 17,640,000 || 3 | Major General | 9.20 | 16,560,000 || 4 | Brigadier General | 8.60 | 15,480,000 || 5 | Colonel | 8.00 | 14,400,000 || 6 | Lieutenant Colonel | 7.30 | 13,140,000 || 7 | Major | 6.60 | 11,880,000 || 8 | Captain | 6.00 | 10,800,000 || 9 | First Lieutenant | 5.40 | 9,720,000 || 10 | Second Lieutenant | 5.00 | 9,000,000 || 11 | Third Lieutenant | 4.60 | 8,280,000 || 12 | Warrant Officer | 4.20 | 7,560,000 || 13 | Sergeant | 3.80 | 6,840,000 || 14 | Corporal | 3.50 | 6,300,000 || 15 | Private | 3.20 | 5,760,000 |
*Note: The above salary levels do not include allowances and salary increases as per regulations.
Police Officer Salary Table after the Wage Reform from July 1, 2024:
On November 10, with the majority of delegates in favor (94.33%), the National Assembly passed Resolution on the state budget estimates for 2024.
To be specific, the Resolution stated:
"From July 1, 2024, comprehensively reform the wage policy according to Resolution 27-NQ/TW of 2018 of the Seventh Central Committee Conference, twelfth tenure."
Thus, the National Assembly officially approved the wage reform from July 1, 2024, according to Resolution 27.
Additionally, in Resolution 27-NQ/TW of 2018, wage reform content is proposed to build 03 new salary tables for the military and police based on job positions, titles, and leadership positions to replace the current wage system; old salaries will be transferred to new salaries, ensuring they are not lower than current salaries, including:
- One salary table for military officers, professional police officers, non-commissioned officers (by title, position, and rank or grade);
- One salary table for professional soldiers, technical professionals in the police;
- One salary table for national defense workers, police workers (maintaining the wage correlation of the armed forces compared to administrative officials as present).
Thus, after the wage reform, there will be one new salary table for police officers based on their position, title, and rank or grade.
*Note: As of now, there is no official specific salary table for police officers.
Police Officer Salary Table before and after the Wage Reform from July 1, 2024 according to Resolution 27 (Image from the Internet)
What allowances do police officers receive after the wage reform from July 1, 2024?
Based on Resolution 27-NQ/TW of 2018, the current allowance policies will be rearranged, ensuring the total allowance fund does not exceed 30% of the total wage fund as follows:
Reform Content
3.1. For officials, public employees, and armed forces (public sector)
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d) Rearrange the current allowance policies, ensuring the total allowance fund does not exceed 30% of the total wage fund
- Continue to apply concurrent duty allowance; seniority allowance beyond the frame; regional allowance; job responsibility allowance; mobility allowance; allowance for security, national defense service, and special allowance for the armed forces (military, police, cryptography).
- Consolidate professional preferential allowance, professional responsibility allowance, and harmful, hazardous allowance (collectively called professional allowance) applied to officials and public employees in professions and jobs with working conditions higher than normal and with appropriate policies from the State (education and training, health care, courts, prosecution, civil judicial execution, inspection, examination, audit, customs, forestry, market management,...). Consolidate special allowance, attraction allowance, and long-term work allowance in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions into the allowance for work in particularly difficult areas.
- Abolish professional seniority allowance (except for the military, police, cryptography to ensure wage correlation with officials); leadership position allowance (because leadership positions in the political system are implemented by job title); party, mass union political-social activity allowance; public service allowance (because it has been included in the basic salary); harmful, hazardous allowance (because working conditions with harmful, hazardous elements have been included in professional allowance).
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Based on the aforementioned content, after the wage reform, police officers will receive the following allowances:
- Concurrent duty allowance, seniority allowance beyond the frame, regional allowance, job responsibility allowance, mobility allowance, special allowance, professional seniority allowance for the military, police.
- Consolidation of special allowance, attraction allowance, and long-term work allowance in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions into the allowance for work in particularly difficult areas.
How is the new salary of police officers calculated?
According to the spirit of Resolution 27-NQ/TW of 2018, the salary structure for the military, police after the wage reform will include:
- Basic salary (accounting for about 70% of the total wage fund);
- Allowances (accounting for about 30% of the total wage fund);
- Additional bonuses (the bonus fund accounts for about 10% of the total annual wage fund, excluding allowances).
Thus, after the wage reform from July 1, 2024, the salary of police officers will be calculated as follows:
| Police Officer Salary = Basic Salary + Allowances (if any) + Bonuses (if any). || --- |
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