Notification Basic Pay Scales 2022 KPK and Allowances
Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Finance Department has issued Notification Basic Pay Scales 2022 KPK and Allowances enhancement and merging of allowances into basic pay. The KP government also issued the Notification of Adhoc Relief Allowance 2022 @ 16% of basic pay.
Notification Basic Pay Scales 2022 KPK and Allowances
As per the Notification, the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa Government granted the following to its employees:
Introduction of Revised Pay Scales 2022 by merging five ad-hoc relief allowances
Grant of Adhoc relief allowance (ARA-2022) @ 15% of current basic pay of 2017 pay scales
Before this KP Government announced a salary increase in Budget 2022-23 KPK in Budget speech and now its Notification the Finance Department KPK issued. KP Government announced 16% ARA while other provincial Governments and Federal governments granted 15% ARA. But in the Notification, the employees of KPK will get the same rate of allowance of 15% as Federal and other provinces.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government employees were also waiting for the revision of Basic Pay Scales. Their Basic Pay Scales were revised in 2017. They were expecting to revise the same during previous years but could not. Many employees retired awaiting the revision of pay scales. Such employees had to face a lot of financial loss in the shape of gratuity/commutation and leave encashment etc.
Annual Increment Rates 2022
Fixation of Salary of the Employees in 2022 Scales
As per the Basic Pay Scale Chart 2022, the basic pay of the employee will be fixed from point to point. Point to point here means, we shall look at the present basic pay in 2017 pay scales and just down it there will be the 2022 pay scales in the same column. This new pay is a combination of 2017 pay scales basic pay plus 5 Adhoc relief allowances as under:
Sr. No Name of Allowance Rate of Allowance
1. ARA-2016 10%
2. ARA-2017 10%
3. Adhoc Relief Allowance 2018 10%
4. Adhoc Relief Allowance (ARA-2019) 10% & 5%
5. ARA-2021 10%
Annual Increment and Personal Pay
According to the Notification, the employees of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will also get the annual increment as of 1st December every year. The employees who are availing of Personal Pay (PP) will also get the pay in revised personal pay.
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