Salary/Arrears Calculator

Arrears Calculator

Back-pay owed for a retroactive settlement period — enter your actual old salary (from your own payslip records) and the calculator handles the new-salary computation and the multi-month arithmetic.

Verified

Why you enter your old salary directly: assembling a fully verified historical DA/salary table back to November 2022 would require checking dozens of individual quarterly notifications one by one — attempting that without full verification risks silently getting some quarter wrong. Your own old payslip has the actual figure that applied to you, so this calculator uses that as the known baseline and only computes the parts it can verify: your new salary and the arithmetic between the two.

Your details

Old gross salary (monthly, as actually paid)(from your own payslip for the arrears period)

New Scale

New stage

JAIIB/CAIIB

HRA Area

City Compensatory Allowance

Number of months in the arrears period(e.g. 16 for Nov 2022–Feb 2024, the actual 12th BPS precedent)

Total arrears owed

₹8,53,104

Old gross salary (monthly)₹45,000

New gross salary (monthly)₹98,319

Monthly difference₹53,319

× 16 months₹8,53,104

What this calculates

The total back-pay owed when a settlement is signed after its effective date — the classic bank arrears scenario, where the 12th Bipartite Settlement itself was signed in March 2024 but effective from November 2022, so employees received a lump-sum arrears payment covering that gap once the settlement was finalized.

Formula

Total Arrears = (New Gross Salary − Old Gross Salary) × Number of Months. New Gross Salary is computed the same way every other salary calculator here does; Old Gross Salary is the figure you actually received during that period, since assembling a verified historical rate table for every possible scale/stage/quarter combination wasn’t something this platform could do reliably.

Worked example

Old gross salary ₹45,000/month, new Gross Salary (Scale I, Stage 5) = ₹98,319, 16-month arrears period: monthly difference = ₹53,319. Total arrears = ₹8,53,104.

FAQs

Why 16 months as the default?

That’s the actual real-world precedent — the 12th BPS was effective 1 November 2022 but signed 8 March 2024, and most banks completed arrears payments by April–May 2024, covering that ~16-month gap. Your own arrears period may differ.

Does this account for DA rate changes within the arrears period?

Not separately — it uses a single average monthly difference across the whole period rather than modeling each quarter’s different DA rate individually. For a period spanning multiple DA revisions, treat this as a reasonable approximation, not an exact month-by-month reconciliation.

References

The 12th Bipartite Settlement (new salary computation and arrears payment terms); your own payslip records for the old salary figure.

Disclaimer: Uses a flat monthly difference across the whole arrears period rather than modeling each quarter's DA rate change individually — a reasonable approximation, not an exact reconciliation for periods spanning multiple DA revisions.