BPSC Assistant Professor Salary 2025: Pay Scale, In-Hand Salary, Perks & Career Growth

The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) recruits for the role of Assistant Professor in various subjects for colleges and universities of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of Bihar. The position has tremendous academic value, stability and security and has value in terms of higher education throughout the state.

Importance of Understanding the Salary Structure for Aspirants

Knowing the salary structure is crucial for aspirants planning a long-term academic career with BPSC. Here’s why:

1. Career Path and Financial Security:

• This post falls under the UGC pay scale of 7th Pay Commission- in most cases Academic Level 10 / Academic Level 11(so roughly academic level 10 or academic level 11 state to state based on qualifications & experience).
• Most boxes have a gross monthly salary (including DA, HRA and other allowances) between ₹70,000 and ₹1,20,000.
• Candidates can capture this structure and ambit with other career planning- (central universities/ private colleges/ any UPSC posts) to compare and contrast with real time indicators.

2. Understanding of perks and allowances:

• HRA, DA, medical allowance, Leave Travel Concession (LTC), pension benefits are some of the payment formats in order to understand. The process or inner dimensions of knowing, enables the candidate to plan and think through relocation and family arrangements or budget for long-term net savings.

3. Planning Career pathway:

• It clearly shows the pathways to promotion in the pay matrix, after this is another promotion directly to Associate Professor and Professor will enlist more allocation for pay and responsibilities for admin.

4. Tax and Retirement:

• The basics of salary can help with income tax and planning your retirement corpus. In addition to the benefits of Housing and GPF/ NPS allowances, employees may be able to use this basic structure of pay to project how much retirement savings they would like.

5. Motivation and goal setting:

• In knowing what this job will provide, aspirants are motivated in their preparation . The recognition of things to accomplish leads to valid questioning in trying to aspect career planning and academic life and/or research designed for mastery and achieving Ph.D Pathway.

BPSC Assistant Professor Salary Details

Basic Pay Structure:

• Pay Band (Old format - 6th CPC): ₹15,600 - ₹39,100
• Grade Pay: ₹6,600
• Pay Matrix Level: Level 11 (As per 7th Pay Commission)

Under the 7th Pay Commission, Grade Pay has been merged into a single Wage Matrix. Level 11 refers to initial basic pay of ₹67,700 per month.

Detailed Salary Breakdown (Approximate – May vary slightly by location and updates):

Allowances and Benefits for BPSC Employees

BPSC hires officers for Bihar state's public services like the Bihar Administrative Service (BAS), Bihar Police Service (BPS), Bihar Financial Service, etc. Government officers in Bihar enjoy a variety of monetary allowances and non-monetary benefits as per the 7th Pay Commission and state provisions.

Dearness Allowance (DA)

• Purpose: Replace the impact of inflation
• Applicable To: Existing employees of BPSC and officers of BPSC
• Currently (2025): roughly 50% of Basic Pay (or as revised in the periodic changes from the Bihar Government who have revised the DA based on the National DA)
• Frequency: Two times a year (January and July) using the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
• Integration: DA is calculated on top of basic pay and all other admissible allowances (like TA)

House Rent Allowance (HRA)

1. Purpose: To assist employees to rent housing.
2. Evaluation of rates based on cities:

• Class A cities (urban/metropolitan area, such as Patna): 24% of basic pay.
• Class B cities (tier-2): 16% of basic pay.
• Class C towns or rural posting: 8% of basic pay.

Note:

• HRA is not admissible when government accommodation is obtained.
• Rates could differ slightly in the State of Bihar when compared to the basis of National Policy.

Transport Allowance (TA)

This allowance is to facilitate the commute to work:

• Teachers: ₹1,000–1,500/month
• ASOs: Fixed ₹3,600/month
• PCS officers: Varies by situation- most have an official vehicle and/or are reimbursed by the state.
• DA goes on TA also.

Medical Allowance / Facilities

• Fixed ₹1,000/month for teachers
• Officers and staff typically have access to CGHS or state medical facilities, and are charged out of subsidized rates.

Children Education Allowance (CEA)

• Up to ₹2,250 per child per month (maximum two children).
• Hostel subsidy of ₹6,000/year
• Ceases to apply after children are in 11th grade, except when they're in initial year of university/college research, and even then you have to be part of a cadre that extends 11th grade and up!
• Increased by 25% each time DA goes over 50% (e.g., ₹2,812/month after increase) foujiadda.in.
• Income tax deduction granted for allowances up to ₹100/month, per child.

Washing/Uniform Allowance

• To employees who wear uniforms while working.
• Amount varies greatly (e.g., ₹180 ₹450/month), but each state does not always reveal state-specific allowances, only in larger schemas, like uniform allowance.

Any other allowance and perks

1. Leave Travel Concession (LTC):For defined holiday periods; and covers reimbursement for domestic travel within a prescribed time, (number of days to travel is determined by government).
2. Special Duty/Hill Area/Hard Area, special allowances: For specific postings.

• Subsidized electricity/water/telephone bills, along with subsidized official or authorized transport for PCS officers.
• Provision of official vehicle and officers assessment, and therefore, there may or may not be security advice-officer cavalcade dependent on the situation per existence of order, etc.
• Can participate and receive gross retirement benefits under NPS. Participants have a contribution cap of 10% of salary, state has matching contribution of 10% of salary and the retirement benefit takes in account pension/gratuity at retirement.
• Group insurance and family benefits, typically family pension, Diwali bonus etc.

The BPSC's selection process for academic positions and research positions is open and transparent, based not only on merit but also on academic performance, higher education or research experience and your knowledge and expertise relevant to the subject area. It does not involve written exams for nearly all disciplines and instead focuses on credentials, publications and interviews, which makes it very easy to structure as well. This structured transparency matches up quite well with national education priorities while assuring quality in academia, and its accountability for public institutions.