The National Pay Commission 2025 has invited public opinions to shape the pay structure for government employees, with an online questionnaire available from 1 to 15 October on its official website (paycommission2025.gov.bd).
The initiative allows citizens, government staff, institutions, and associations to provide feedback on salaries, allowances, inflation, housing, corruption, and retirement benefits. The survey for citizens includes 35 questions covering family income needs, adjustments against inflation, adequacy of housing allowances, and opinions on area-based rent as a percentage of basic salary.
Minimum thresholds have been set for some responses. For example, the lowest salary suggestion cannot be under Tk10,000. Medical allowances cannot be proposed below Tk2,000 for employees under 65 and Tk2,500 for those above 65, while education allowance also has fixed minimums. Participants are further asked to recommend ratios between the highest and lowest grades of salaries, with options such as 1:8, 1:10, and 1:12.
The preamble of the questionnaire states that the commission’s goal is to create a broad-based and sustainable salary framework for employees of government, semi-government, autonomous institutions, state-owned banks, financial bodies, universities, and industries, aligning it with inflation, economic growth, and national development plans.
Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed announced yesterday that the revised pay structure will be implemented during the tenure of the interim government. He added that the necessary funds will be allocated in the revised budget for the ongoing fiscal year.
