History of Pay Commissions

Pay Commissions are periodically constituted to examine various issues such as pay and allowances, retirement benefits, conditions of service, promotion policies, etc. of the Central Government employees. There is no stipulation regarding any specific time period for constitution of a Pay Commission for Central Government employees. Till now five Central Pay Commissions have been constituted whose details are as below:-

First Pay Commission

• Date of Appointed : May, 1946
• Date of Submission of Report : May,1947
• Financial Impact (Rs. in Cr.) : NA

Second Pay Commission

• Date of Appointed : August, 1957
• Date of Submission of Report : August 1959
• Financial Impact (Rs. in Cr.) : 39.62

Third Pay Commission

• Date of Appointed : April, 1970
• Date of Submission of Report : March, 1973
• Financial Impact (Rs. in Cr.) : 144.60

Fourth Pay Commission

• Date of Appointed : June, 1983
• Date of Submission of Report : 3 Reports submitted in June, 1986; Dec. 1986 and May, 1987
• Financial Impact (Rs. in Cr.) : 1282

Fifth Pay Commission

• Date of Appointed : April, 1994
• Date of Submission of Report : January, 1997
• Financial Impact (Rs. in Cr.) : 17,000

Thus successive Central Pay Commissions were set up in the past at intervals of 10 to 13 years. The last Central Pay Commission was constituted in April, 1994.