Civil servants’ base salary to increase in July
Hanoi (VNA) - The monthly basic salary for civil servants, public employees and those working in the armed forces will increase to 1.49 million VND (63.9 USD) from 1.39 million VND (59.6 USD) as of July 1, 2019.
The rise is
stipulated in Decree 38/2019/ND-CP recently issued by the Government.
The new basic salary will be applied for those
working in agencies, organisations and non-production units of the Party and
the State, State-funded political-social organisations and associations, along
with the armed forces.
The basic salary is used as the basis for calculating
salary, allowances and other payments for the groups. It will also be used to calculate
operating and living allowances and other deductions and entitlements.
Decree 38/2019/ND-CP will take effect on July 1,
2019, replacing Decree 72/2018/ND-CP dated May 15, 2018.-VNA