DHAKA — Bangladesh is moving closer to implementing its eagerly anticipated Ninth National Pay Scale for public sector employees, with official preparations entering their final administrative stages. The draft notification detailing the revised salary framework has been forwarded to the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs for legal vetting. Once this statutory scrutinization is complete, the government will move swiftly to issue the formal gazette.
To account for structural variations across state services, the Finance Division will release seven separate Statutory Regulatory Orders (SROs). These legal instruments will define the specific salary steps, allowances, and financial benefits for civil administration, the police service, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), public banks and financial institutions, autonomous and state-owned bodies, the armed forces, and the judiciary.
A central feature of this pay scale implementation is the total reliance on digital payroll management through the Integrated Budget and Accounting System (iBAS++). Under this automated architecture, individual civil servants must update their employment records directly on the platform. Required submissions include current designation, pay grade, initial service join date, history of annual increments, promotion records, and details regarding higher scale entitlements.
Once verified, the software will automatically calculate individual base pay and associated allowances, eliminating the cumbersome paperwork traditionally associated with manual pay fixations. Public sector workers will be able to verify their placement and entitlement online. Finance officials anticipate that this automated approach will significantly diminish calculation errors, eliminate duplicate benefit claims, and reduce the risk of overpayments while cutting down routine visits to accounts offices. Existing digital workflows—including salary bill submission, General Provident Fund (GPF) tracking, government loan servicing, tax calculations, and direct salary or pension disbursements via Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT)—will remain fully integrated within iBAS++.
The proposed Ninth National Pay Scale maintains the existing structure of 20 distinct pay grades. Under the revised framework, the basic monthly salary for Grade 20, the lowest tier, rises to 20,000 Taka, while the top tier, Grade 1, tops out at 156,000 Taka.
Although the operational implementation will commence immediately following the publication of the primary gazette and its corresponding SROs, the effective date for the new salary structure is set for 1 July 2026. Finance Division officials confirmed that technical groundwork and administrative procedures are being expedited to ensure a seamless transition for all public servants across the republic.
