Salary allowances of cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces in Vietnam

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1. Salary allowances of officials, public employees, public servants and armed force personnel in Vietnam

Article 6 of Decree 204/2004/ND-CP (amended in Decree 76/2009/ND-CP) stipulates the salary allowance as follows:

(1) Allowance for working years in excess of the required number of working years:

Applicable to the persons whose salaries are determined in accordance with the Tables 2, 3, 4 and 7 as provided for in Item 1, Article 5 of Decree 204/2004/ND-CP, and with the profession salary schedule applicable to cadres and public servants in the Juridical Courts and Procuracy as provided for in Resolution 730/2004/NQ-UBTVQH11, who are currently entitled to the highest salary grade for their position or salary category.

- Allowance to be computed as follows:

+ For those whose salaries are computed in accordance with the categories of type A0 -A3 in Table 2 and 3, titles listed at professional salary schedule for the sectors of the Juridical Courts and Procuracy:

After 3 years (36 full months), if they are entitled to the highest salary grade in their salary category or the highest salary grade applicable to their positions, they shall be entitled to the allowance for excessive working years equivalent to 5% of salary level in the highest salary grade in their salary category or the highest salary grade applicable to their positions, from the 4th year on, each year additional 1% is added for the purpose of allowance computing.

+ For those whose salaries are computed in accordance with the categories of type B and C of Tables 2 and 3, and staff who do not hold position of authority and whose salaries are determined in accordance with salary schedule in Table 4:

After 2 years (24 full months), if they are entitled to the highest salary grade in their salary category or the highest salary grade applicable to their positions, they shall be entitled to the allowance for excessive working years equivalent to 5% of salary level in the highest salary grade in their salary category or the highest salary grade applicable to their positions, from the 3rd year on, additional 1% is added each year for the purpose of allowance computing.

+ For the subjects specified at Points a (a1 and a2), Clause 1 of Article 6 of Decree 204/2004/ND-CP, if they fail to fulfill their assigned annual duties or are disciplined in one of the forms of reprimand, warning, demotion, or dismissal, for each year of failing to complete tasks or being disciplined, the period for calculating seniority allowances beyond the frame rate will be extended as follows:

++ In case of failure to complete the task or being disciplined in the form of reprimand or warning, the extension shall be 06 (six) months longer than the prescribed time;

++ In case of disciplinary demotion or dismissal, it will be extended by 12 months (one year) compared to the prescribed time.

- The allowance for excessive working years is used for computing the fees for and benefits from social insurance.

(2) Pluralism allowance:

The person with office title at one office or unit (either elected or appointed) shall benefit from pluralism allowance for his/her office title in other office(s) and/or unit(s) if he/she is elected and/or appointed as the top management position of such office(s) and/or unit(s) that are allowed to have the part-time head.

The rate of allowance equals to 10% of the current salary plus position allowance for leaders and the allowance for excessive working years (if any). The persons who concurrently hold more than one top management positions are entitled to receive the allowance attached to one office only.

(3) Regional allowance:

Applicable to the persons who work in remote and isolated areas and areas affected by bad weather conditions.

The allowance consists of seven levels of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.7 and 1.0 on the basis of the general minimum salary level. As for non-commissioned officers and soldiers on military service in the armed forces, regional allowance is computed on the basis of the allowance for privates.

(4) Special allowance:

Applicable to the persons who work on far-reaching islands and in the border area with extremely difficult living conditions.

The allowance consists of three levels of 30%, 50% and 100% of current salary level in addition to the position allowance and the allowance for excessive working years (if any) or that for current military rank for non-commissioned officers and soldiers in the armed forces.

(5) Inducement allowance:

Applicable to the officials, public employees and public servants who voluntarily work in new economic zones, economic establishments and on islands far away from the mainland in extremely disadvantaged living conditions.

The allowance consists of four levels of 20%, 30%, 50% and 70% of the current salary level in addition to the position allowance and the allowance for excessive working years (if any).

The duration for allowance is between 3 - 5 years.

(6) Mobility allowance:

Applicable to the officials, public employees and public servants who do some jobs that requires a frequent relocation of working and living places.

The allowance consists of three levels of 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 which are computed on the basis of general minimum salary level.

(7) Toxic allowance:

Applicable to the officials, public employees and public servants who work in toxic and dangerous conditions, but yet included in the computation of the salary schedule.

The allowance consists of four levels of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 which are computed on the basis of general minimum salary level.

(8) Job-specific allowance rates:

- Seniority allowance:

Applies to officers and professional soldiers of the People's Army, salaried officers and non-commissioned officers of the People's Public Security, and cipher workers in cipher organizations and cadres and civil servants who have been paid according to ranks or specialized titles: customs, court, procurator, audit, inspector, civil judgment enforcement, ranger.

The allowance level is as follows: after 5 years (full 60 months) of active service or continuous work in the cipher industry, customs, courts, prosecutors, audits, inspectors, civil judgment enforcement, and forest rangers, they are entitled to a seniority allowance equal to 5% of their current salary plus allowances for leadership positions and allowances for overtime beyond the bracket (if any); from the sixth year onward, an additional 1% is charged each year.

- Occupation-specific preferential allowance:

Applicable to the cadres, civil servants, and public servants who are involved in the trades or jobs which require higher level of competency than usual, who are entitled to the State’s preferential policies, which have not been included in the computation of the salary schedules.

The allowance consists of 10 grades of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45% and 50% of the current salary level in addition to the position allowance and the allowance for excessive working years (if any).

- Occupation-specific responsibility allowance:

Applicable to the titles listed in professional salary schedule and salary schedule for job titles in Court, Procuracy, Inspectorate and some judiciary titles.

The allowance includes five levels of 10%; 15%; 20%, 25% and 30% of current salary level in addition to the position allowance and the allowance for excessive working years (if any).

The persons who are subjected to occupation-specific responsibility allowance regime as stipulated at this point are not entitled to occupation-specific preferential allowance regime provided for at Point b, Item 8 of this Article.

- Job-specific responsibility allowance:

+ The persons who work in organs for codes and coding are entitled to responsibility allowance for maintaining the confidentiality of codes.

The allowance consists of three levels of 0.1; 0.2 and 0.3 against the general minimum salary level.

+ The persons who are either involve in the job requiring a high sense of responsibility or work as managers without the leadership title (either elected or appointed) are entitled to job-specific responsibility allowance.

The allowance consists of four levels of 0.1; 0.2; 0.3 and 0.5 which are computed on the basis of the general minimum salary level.

- Allowance for service in national defence and security:

Applicable to the persons whose salaries are not determined in accordance with at Tables 6 and 7 stipulated at Item 1, Article 5 of Decree 204/2004/ND-CP, working in agencies and units in the armed forces and code and coding agencies.

The allowance consists of two levels of 30% and 50% of the current salary level in addition to the position allowance and the allowance for excessive working years (if any).

2. Regulation on salary allowance schedules for officials, public employees, public servants and armed force personnel in Vietnam

According to Clause 1, Article 5 of Decree 204/2004/ND-CP (amended in Decree 76/2009/ND-CP), the salary allowance schedules for officials, public employees, public servants and armed force personnel in Vietnam are as follows:

- Regulations on the following 7 salary tables:

+ Table 1: Salary table of senior experts.

+ Table 2: Professional and professional salary list for cadres and civil servants in state agencies (including cadres holding elected positions subject to salary classification according to ranks, administrative civil servant grades and benefits allowances for leadership positions and civil servants in communes, wards and townships).

+ Table 3: Professional and professional salary table for officials and public employees in non-business units of the State.

+ Table 4: Salary schedule of employees serving in state agencies and non-business units of the State.

+ Table 5: Payroll of full-time officials in communes, wards and townships.

+ Table 6: Salary schedule of military ranks of officers of the People's Army; officers and non-commissioned officers of the People's Public Security.

+ Table 7: Salary list of professional soldiers of the People's Army and technical expertise of the People's Public Security.

- People who do cipher work in cipher organizations, depending on each object, are paid according to the salary table of ranks of officers of the People's Army (Table 6), with the highest salary equal to the salary of the rank of Lieutenant General (except for officers of the People's Army and People's Public Security officers who are dispatched and seconded) and the professional military personnel payroll of the People's Army (table 7)

- Workers working in agencies and units of the armed forces and cipher organizations shall apply the salary scale and salary table prescribed in state-owned companies.

Ho Quoc Tuan

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