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Basic pay for Kharidar, Nayab Subba, Section Officer, Under-Secretary, Joint-Secretary, Secretary and Chief Secretary, by grade step, with an estimated take-home.

This is a research explainer, not an official payroll lookup. Every basic-pay figure is tagged with how solid the evidence behind it is, and it deliberately does not model dearness or other allowances that could not be confidently sourced.

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Reported by one source

Each grade is a periodic increment earned with years of service, roughly Rs 1,457 per step (reported, not independently re-verified).

Pay schedule

Last fully-settled schedule found in this research.

Retirement fund

Section Officer (Shakha Adhikrit) · Gazetted third class

Reported by one source

Rs 43,689

Basic pay / month, before any allowance

Est. take-home / month

Rs 38,927

Income tax / year

Rs 4,718

EPF contribution / yr

Rs 52,427

This take-home estimate is computed on BASIC PAY ONLY using the same income-tax engine as the general salary calculator, for FY 2082/83 (2025/26). It excludes the monthly dearness allowance (reported at around Rs 5,000, not independently confirmed here), the FY 2083/84 incentive allowance, and any position/risk/local allowance, so a real payslip's gross and net will be higher than this basic-pay figure suggests. It is not an official payroll calculation.

Note on this post: Entry gazetted-officer post, filled through the Loksewa open competition. Two write-ups agree at Rs 43,689, but a fourth source (not used here) gave a conflicting starting figure of roughly Rs 34,220 that could not be reconciled, so this is tagged reported rather than confirmed.

All posts, FY 2082/83 starting basic pay

PostClass / tierStarting basicGrades × incrementConfidence
Kharidar (खरिदार)Non-gazetted second classRs 32,9028 × Rs 1,097Confirmed
Nayab Subba (नायब सुब्बा)Non-gazetted first classRs 34,7308 × Rs 1,158Confirmed
Section Officer (Shakha Adhikrit) (शाखा अधिकृत)Gazetted third classRs 43,6898 × Rs 1,457Reported by one source
Under-Secretary (उपसचिव)Gazetted second classRs 48,7378 × Rs 1,625Reported by one source
Joint-Secretary (सहसचिव)Gazetted first classRs 56,7878 × Rs 1,893Confirmed
Secretary (सचिव)Special classRs 72,0822 × Rs 2,403Reported by one source
Chief Secretary (मुख्य सचिव)Special classRs 77,2112 × Rs 2,574Confirmed

Grade/step counts and increment amounts are reported by two of three sources cross-checked in this research, not independently re-verified against an official gazette, and tagged accordingly in the FAQ and sources sections below.

Post hierarchy

How the civil-service ladder works

From entry non-gazetted assistant posts up to the single top post, Chief Secretary.

01

Non-gazetted assistants

Kharidar, then Nayab Subba, the non-gazetted posts most Loksewa candidates start in.

02

Gazetted officers

Section Officer (entry, Loksewa open competition), then Under-Secretary and Joint-Secretary, usually reached by promotion.

03

Special class

Secretary, heading a ministry, and Chief Secretary, the single head of the civil service.

Questions

Civil-service pay, answered

Is this the official Nepal government salary scale?+

No. No official Ministry of Finance gazette PDF or the Department of National Personnel Records' own salary sheet could be fetched directly for this page, so every figure comes from cross-checking several Nepali government-jobs and news write-ups against each other. Basic-pay starting figures are tagged confirmed only where the independently-styled sources agreed with each other directly, with no conflict to resolve. Where sources disagreed and a conflict had to be resolved by our own arithmetic cross-check rather than clean multi-source agreement, the figure is tagged reported instead, even if it's still the number used. For an official figure, check the Nepal Gazette, your ministry's salary circular, or the FCGO payroll system.

Why does the calculator default to FY 2082/83 instead of the current year?+

FY 2082/83 (2025/26) is the last schedule this research found multiple sources agreeing on. FY 2083/84 (2026/27, the current fiscal year) brought an announced roughly 10% basic-pay rise plus a new incentive allowance, but even the secondary source that published post-wise FY 2083/84 numbers called them provisional estimates pending the official post-wise circular, so this tool carries that same caveat rather than presenting them as settled.

What isn't included in the take-home estimate?+

Only basic pay is taxed here, the same income-tax engine the general salary calculator uses. The monthly dearness allowance (reported at roughly Rs 5,000, not independently confirmed), the FY 2083/84 incentive allowance, and any position, risk or local allowance are all excluded, so a real payslip's gross and net will run higher than the basic-pay figure shown.

How do grade / step increments work?+

Civil servants move up a fixed number of pay grades within their post over their career, each grade adding a reported per-step increment to the starting basic. The step counts and increment amounts here are corroborated by two of the three sources cross-checked in this research (not independently re-verified against an official gazette), so they're tagged reported rather than confirmed.

Sources & data note

Basic-pay figures are for FY 2082/83 (2025/26), the last schedule multiple independently-styled sources agree on; none could be checked against a raw Ministry of Finance gazette scan or the Department of National Personnel Records' own PDF salary sheet, so treat every number here as reported rather than an official lookup. FY 2083/84 (2026/27, the current fiscal year) basic pay is shown only for tiers a source explicitly published a figure for, and only after the source itself called those numbers provisional pending the official post-wise circular; a roughly 10% basic-pay rise plus a new 10% incentive allowance and the existing Rs 5,000/month dearness allowance were announced with the FY 2083/84 budget but are not otherwise modeled here. Grade (step) counts and increment amounts are corroborated by only two of the three write-ups used and are tagged accordingly. None of this includes dearness, incentive, position, risk or local allowances, so real gross pay is materially higher than the basic-pay figures shown. For anything that matters (an actual payslip, a job offer, a pension calculation), confirm against the official Nepal Gazette notice, your ministry's salary circular, or the FCGO payroll system.