Salary Hike Calculator
Calculate your new salary after a percentage hike, or work out the hike percentage between two CTCs.
Formula last reviewed 4 August 2026 · How we verify our calculators
New CTC
- Increase amount
- ₹60,000
- Extra per month
- ₹5,000
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Frequently asked questions
Multiply your current CTC by (1 + hike% ÷ 100). For example, a 10% hike on ₹6,00,000 gives ₹6,60,000. Switch modes to instead derive the percentage from your old and new CTC.
In India, annual increments often range from 8–12%, while a job switch can fetch 20–40%. A “good” hike is one that beats inflation and reflects your added responsibilities.
Hikes are usually quoted on CTC. Because tax and PF scale with pay, your in-hand increase may be a slightly different percentage from the headline hike.
Use the comparison mode: it computes ((new − old) ÷ old) × 100 so you can see the exact increment between any two CTC figures.
The percentage on your appraisal letter — verify it, don't trust it
A 10% hike on a ₹6,00,000 CTC should produce a new CTC of ₹6,60,000 — a ₹60,000 annual increase, roughly ₹5,000 extra each month. Feed those same two numbers, ₹6,00,000 and ₹6,60,000, into this calculator's comparison mode instead, and it confirms the hike was exactly 10.00%. That's the calculator's second job: not just projecting a hike forward, but checking an appraisal letter's stated percentage against the actual rupee figures you were given, in case the two don't quite line up.
Two directions, one tool
Mode one takes a current CTC and a hike percentage and projects the new CTC, the annual increase, and roughly what that adds to your monthly pay. Mode two runs the arithmetic backward — feed in an old and new CTC, and it computes ((new − old) ÷ old) × 100 to hand back the exact percentage between them. The second mode is the one worth reaching for whenever a number sounds off: comparing two competing offers, or double-checking that "10% hike" on your appraisal letter matches what actually landed in the new CTC figure.
Why your take-home won't grow by the same percentage as your CTC
A 10% CTC hike does not translate into a 10% take-home increase, and the reason is that income tax is progressive while PF also scales with pay — both move in step with your CTC, but not in a way that preserves the percentage. A hike that nudges part of your income into a higher tax slab will grow your in-hand pay by *less* than 10%, even though the CTC line grew by exactly that. For the actual rupee difference in your pocket, take the new CTC this calculator produces and run it through the in-hand salary calculator — that's the number that actually matters for a budget, not the headline percentage on the appraisal letter.