8th Pay Commission Jaipur Meet to Gauge Union Demands
The 8th Pay Commission's Jaipur meeting on Aug 31-Sep 1 will gather union inputs before final report due in 2027. Unions seek fitment factor above 3.5x.
The 8th Pay Commission will hold a two-day meeting in Jaipur on 31 August and 1 September 2026, according to the commission's official website. Submissions for the session closed on 18 August. The meeting is part of the commission's consultation phase, which has already taken it to Delhi, Ladakh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Odisha.
The commission, headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, was constituted on 3 November 2025 and given 18 months to submit its final report. With about ten months elapsed, the report is tentatively due to the Union Cabinet in May or June 2027.
A central issue in the consultations is the fitment factor, the multiplier used to set salaries under the new pay matrix. The 6th Pay Commission set a factor of 1.86, and the 7th used 2.57, according to the commission's official website. Several unions, including the National Council of JCM and the BPMS, have demanded a factor above 3.5 times the current base pay, the website shows.
The Jaipur meeting will gather additional union and stakeholder inputs before the commission begins drafting its final recommendations. Those recommendations will cover salary revisions, pension reforms, allowances, and the fitment factor itself. The eventual decision by the Union Cabinet will determine the size of any increase for central government employees and pensioners.
The commission is expected to submit its final report by mid-2027. The Jaipur meeting marks the last scheduled consultation before that filing.
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