It is expected that from July 1, 2026, the base salary will be adjusted to increase by about 8% - from 2.34 million VND to 2,527,200 VND.
The base salary, in addition to being used as a basis for paying salaries and bonuses for cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces, is also used as a basis for calculating the level of benefits and social insurance regimes.
Although the base salary increase only helps increase the salary of workers in the state sector, this salary level is also the basis for calculating many social insurance allowances, occupational accident and disease insurance, so all workers participating in social insurance benefit.
5 social insurance allowances: Nursing allowance after illness; one-time allowance when giving birth; postpartum Nursing allowance; funeral allowance; monthly death gratuity.
The benefit level for one day of rest and recovery after illness is equal to 30% of the reference level. Currently, the base salary has not been abolished, so the reference level is equal to the base salary.
When the base salary increases from 2,340,000 VND/month to 2,527,200 VND/month, the benefit level for one day of rest and health recovery after illness also increases from 702,000 VND/day to 758,160 VND/day.
Similarly, the one-time allowance when giving birth and adopting children equal to 2 times the reference level will increase from 4,680,000 VND to 5,54,400 VND per child.
Funeral allowance is calculated as 10 times the reference level. Thus, the funeral allowance level will increase from 23,400,000 VND to 25,272,000 VND.
The monthly survivor's allowance level for each relative equal to 50% of the reference level will increase to 1,263,600 VND/month; in case the relative has no direct caregiver, the monthly survivor's allowance level equal to 70% of the reference level will increase to 1,769,040 VND/month.
4 occupational accident and disease allowances
When the base salary increases by an additional 8% from July 1, it means that many allowances for workers injured in occupational accidents and diseases paid by the social insurance agency also increase by an additional 8% according to the base salary, including:
One-time allowance when suffering from a work accident - occupational disease; service allowance for people with work accidents - occupational diseases; one-time allowance when death due to work accident - occupational disease; recovery allowance after treatment.
