The funds for increasing base salary levels from July 01, 2023

This is the content prescribed by the Government at Decree No. 24/2023/ND-CP prescribing the base salary for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and armed forces.

From July 01, 2023, the base salary for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and armed forces is increased to VND 1.8 million/month.

The fund for increasing base salary levels is from the sources as follows:

Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government-attached agencies, and other central agencies shall:

• Use the 10-percent saved regular expenditure (excluding salaries, salary-based allowances, expenditures of salary nature, and other expenditures for human resources under regulations) of the 2023 year’s state budget estimate higher than the state budget estimate allocated in 2017 by competent authorities;
• Fee-collecting administrative agencies and non-business units shall carry out the appropriation of part of collected fees permissible to be retained in accordance with the specified regime for funds for salary reform, after deducting expenses directly related to activities of service provision and fee collection;
• Use the 2022 year’s unused funds for the salary reform (if any).

- Provinces and centrally-run cities shall:

• Use the 10-percent saved regular expenditure (excluding salaries, salary-based allowances, expenditures of a salary nature, and other expenditures for human resources under regulations) of the 2023 year’s state budget estimate allocated by competent authorities;
• Use 70% of the increased revenues of local budgets in comparison with the budget estimate allocated by the Prime Minister
• Use the 2022 year’s unused funds for the salary reform (if any).
• Use at least 40% of the retained collected amounts according to the year 2023’s regime after deducting expenses directly related to activities of service provision and fee collection. Use at least 35% of the collected amounts retained from the provision of medical examination and treatment, preventive medicine, and other health services of public health establishments.
• The central budget shall additionally provide funds for adjustment of base salary in 2023 to ministries, ministerial-level agencies,government-attached agencies, other central agencies, provinces, and centrally-run cities.
• Funding sources for salary reform for public employees and employees in group-1 and -2 public non-business units shall be covered by such units in accordance with the Government’s Decree No. 60/2021/ND-CP and other amended and supplemented (if any).

The Decree No. 24/2023/ND-CP takes effect on July 01, 2023.