KVS TGT Salary: Level 7 Pay, DA at 60%, HRA, TA and In-Hand Estimate

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Notification 01/2025 gives the TGT pay scale as "Level-7 (Rs.44900-142400) in the Pay Matrix", with an upper age limit of 35. The KVS recruitment rules (the Schedule II rules circulated on 20 March 2025, attached to the KVS memorandum of 27 June 2025) describe the post more fully. The classification is "equivalent to Group B"; the post is a selection post; the pay is Level 7 (Rs 44,900 to Rs 1,42,400) as the entry scale, Level 8 (Rs 47,600 to Rs 1,51,100) as the senior scale and Level 10 (Rs 56,100 to Rs 1,77,500) as the selection scale. The rules say probation is two years for direct recruits and that TGT posts are filled 66.67 per cent by direct recruitment and 33.33 per cent by a limited departmental examination for PRTs.

The recruitment rules name the three scales but the extract we read does not say after how many years a TGT moves from the entry to the senior or the selection scale, so we do not give a timetable. The three scales above are the ones the rules print for the TGT post. What a new TGT is notified at is Level 7, entry basic Rs 44,900, and the calculators on this page start there.

The next revision is dated 1 July 2026. Reports say it may take DA to about 63 per cent, but the government announces it only after the June index and, in recent years, in September or October. We found no order for 1 July 2026 on 3 October 2026, so this page uses 60 per cent and the calculator lets you change it. When an order appears the DA line, and with it every gross figure here, rises. Whether KVS, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Education, adopts a central revision on the same date is a matter for its own orders; the notification does not state it.

Transport allowance depends on pay level and city. For Levels 3 to 8, a second OM of 7 July 2017 gives Rs 3,600 plus DA in the specified higher-TPTA cities and Rs 1,800 plus DA elsewhere; it is not admissible to an employee who is provided with government transport. We read those figures on a mirror of the OM, so we label them reported. With DA at 60 per cent, Rs 3,600 becomes Rs 5,760 and Rs 1,800 becomes Rs 2,880.

Three combinations show the range at the entry basic. They are our arithmetic from the elements above, with the X-class case paired with a higher-TPTA transport allowance and the other two with the lower one. Different city and allowance combinations give figures in between.

What this leaves out is as important as what it includes. Deductions are not stated in the notification or the recruitment rules: any contribution under a pension scheme, group insurance, medical scheme, professional tax and income tax comes off the gross, and the first two depend on rules for KVS appointments that we could not find in these documents. The calculator below therefore asks you for your own total. The documents also do not state a pension scheme for new appointees; "NPS" and "UPS" appear in many coaching tables, but not in these documents.

The comparison with PRT and PGT uses the same assumptions, so it is a like-for-like gap, not a salary statement for either post. The entry gross for a TGT is about Rs 18,000 above a PRT and about Rs 5,000 below a PGT on this arithmetic.

The notification gives these terms for selected candidates. They start on probation for two years, "which can be extended at the discretion of the Competent Authority", and during probation their services can be terminated at any time without assigning any reason. They are "liable to be posted anywhere in India", and the notification's opening page says a request for change of station or region on initial posting "will not be entertained under any circumstances whatsoever." No TA or DA is paid to a candidate for appearing in the examination, interview or skill test. A candidate who gives false information can be terminated at any stage, including after confirmation.

The Central Government's 8th Pay Commission is on its way: the Cabinet approved its terms of reference on 28 October 2025, with a report due within 18 months of its constitution, and reports say its recommendations are expected to take effect from 1 January 2026, a date that is already past. It has not reported, so nothing has changed in the pay matrix yet. We rely on a mirror of the announcement for that, so it is labelled reported. Until the Government accepts a new matrix, the Level 7 of the 7th Pay Commission is the pay structure that the notification and the recruitment rules use, and that is what this page calculates on. When a new matrix is notified, the Level 7 figures here will be replaced.