Salary hike / appraisal calculator
Enter your current salary and an offered hike percentage to see your new salary, then check the real-terms increase after inflation before you accept or negotiate.
A raise that looks generous on paper can still leave you no better off once rising prices are accounted for. This tool flags a hike that isn't keeping pace with inflation.
Your hike
Your current take-home or CTC, whichever figure your offered hike percentage applies to.
The raise percentage your employer has offered or you're negotiating for.
An adjustable estimate, not a fixed fact. Nepal's CPI inflation has typically run around 6-8% a year.
New monthly salary
Rs 55,000
up from Rs 50,000 a month
Real-terms increase
2.8%
New monthly salary
Rs 55,000
Nominal increase
Rs 5,000
Real-terms increase
2.8%
Nominal increase is the plain rupee rise from a 10% hike on your current salary. Real-terms increase restates that hike after accounting for 7% expected inflation over the same period, it is the closest single figure to how much extra buying power the raise actually gives you, computed entirely in your browser.
Two numbers for one raise, nominal and real
The headline percentage is only half the story, inflation decides what it's actually worth.
New salary
Current salary × (1 + hike %), the plain rupee figure your payslip will show after the raise takes effect.
Nominal increase
New salary minus current salary, the rupee amount your pay goes up by before any inflation adjustment.
Real-terms increase
The hike restated after removing the same period's expected inflation, an estimate of how much extra buying power the raise actually gives you.
Want the full breakdown of tax and SSF/EPF contributions on the salary this hike produces? See our CTC to take-home calculator.
Salary hikes, answered
What's a good salary hike percentage in Nepal?+
There is no single number, it depends on your industry, role and how far you are below market rate. As a rough guide, an annual increment for solid performance in the Nepali private sector often falls somewhere in the 8-15% range, promotions or a job change typically fetch more. The figure that matters most for your own finances is not the nominal hike itself, but the real-terms increase after inflation this calculator shows, since that is what actually grows your buying power.
What is a real-terms salary increase?+
It's your hike restated after removing the effect of inflation over the same period. A 10% nominal hike sounds solid, but if prices in the economy also rose around 7% over that year, your actual gain in purchasing power is much smaller than 10%, roughly ((1.10 / 1.07) − 1) × 100 ≈ 2.8% here. Real-terms increase answers 'can I actually buy more with my new salary than I could before', which nominal percentage alone cannot.
How is this different from the CTC to take-home calculator?+
They answer different questions. This calculator takes a hike percentage and current salary and shows the new salary plus how much of that raise survives inflation, it does not touch tax or contributions. Our CTC to take-home calculator instead breaks a single CTC figure down into gross salary, SSF/EPF contributions and income tax to show what actually lands in your bank account. Use this tool to judge whether an offered hike is worth taking, then run the resulting CTC through the CTC to take-home calculator to see the real monthly number after deductions.
Should I negotiate based on nominal or real increase?+
Lead with the nominal percentage since that is the number your employer's payroll and budget process works in, but privately judge the offer by its real-terms increase. A hike at or below the current inflation rate leaves you no better off in what you can actually buy, even though your payslip shows a bigger number. If the real-terms increase this calculator shows is negative or close to zero, that's a reasonable basis to ask for more, or to factor in when comparing this offer against another job.
Sources & data note
New salary and nominal increase are a straight multiplication of your entered current salary and hike percentage. Real-terms increase restates that hike against your entered expected inflation rate. This is a planning estimate only, it does not model tax, SSF/EPF contributions or allowances, and inflation is your own estimate, actual price rises vary by category and year.