Kuwaiti Government Salary Scale Calculator

Kuwait's general salary table for Kuwaiti employees

The general group runs from grade 8 up to grade 1, then B and A, and requires an intermediate certificate or higher. Above it are the leadership grades (assistant undersecretary, undersecretary and Excellent). Beside it are the auxiliary group for those without an intermediate certificate and the technical auxiliary group based on experience. Each grade has a starting salary, a fixed increment and 6 or 11 steps.

The full table is published on a specialist site, not an official source we could open, so our confidence is medium. But the starting salary of ten grades matches the special-bonus table Al Anba published in 2012 (25% of the starting salary), its extremes of 90 and 790 match the cost-of-living percentages reported from the Commission in 2008, and every grade is a regular arithmetic series.

Fixed allowances

• Social allowance: for Kuwaitis, single or married rate, varying by grade as in the table.
• Children's allowance: KWD 50 per child up to 7, and 100 for a child with a severe or moderate disability.
• Cost of living: KWD 120 for every Kuwaiti since 2008, not merged into basic pay and outside the insurance base. Proposals to raise it to 240 or 250 were not enacted as far as we found.
• Special bonus: 25% of the grade's starting salary, at least 50, since April 2012; we found nothing confirming or ending it, so it is optional in the calculator.

Supervision allowances, special cadres and job-nature allowances are outside the calculator.

Annual increment and deductions

The increment is paid on 1 January or 1 July after a year from appointment or the last increment, moving the employee one step up to the top of the grade. Social insurance takes 10% of basic, social allowance and children's allowance up to KWD 1,500, and 5% supplementary above that up to 2,750; government employees pay no unemployment contribution. For any salary, use the Kuwait net salary calculator.