Policy on salary and special allowances for employees...

The policy on wages and special allowances for employees in core defense industrial establishments and core security industrial establishments is stipulated in Article 11 of Decree No. 103/2025/ND-CP.

This Decree takes effect from July 1, 2025. Specifically as follows:

1. Employees in core defense industrial establishments and core security industrial establishments are subject to the same salary policies as employees in enterprises directly serving defense and security according to the provisions of the law on enterprises.

2. Policy on special allowances:

a) Employees who are officers, professional soldiers, defense workers, defense officials at core defense industrial establishments; people doing cryptographic work working at core defense industrial establishments producing products and equipment serving cryptographic activities; salaried officers, non-commissioned officers, and police workers working at core security industrial establishments are entitled to special allowances according to the provisions in the Appendix issued with this Decree;

Workers at Factory Z131, General Department of Defense Industry. Photo: qdnd.vn

b) Employees who are contract workers signed labor contracts by core defense industrial establishments and core security industrial establishments in accordance with the provisions of law and are arranged in defense and security production lines are entitled to special allowances. Core defense industrial establishments and core security industrial establishments establish special allowances for contract workers at this point to ensure correlation with the beneficiaries at point a of this clause and include them in the salary scale, salary table, and salary allowances of the enterprise;

c) The cost of paying special allowances to employees as prescribed in this clause is included in the product cost but is not used to calculate social insurance and health insurance contributions.

Appendix

SUBJECTS, BENEFITS, LIST OF WORK

AND SPECIAL ALLOWANCE LEVEL

I. Subjects

- Officers, professional soldiers, defense workers, defense officials at core defense industrial establishments.

- Cryptographers work at core defense industrial facilities that produce products and equipment for cryptographic operations.

- Officers, non-commissioned officers receiving salary, police workers at core security industrial establishments.

II. How to calculate benefits

Special allowances are calculated by multiplying the percentage (%) specified in Section III of this Appendix by the current salary of military rank, grade, and level plus position allowance and seniority allowance beyond the framework (if any).

III. List of jobs and how to calculate benefits

STT	Job	Benefit level
1	Directly research, design, experiment, test, measure, manufacture, produce, repair, convert, improve, modernize, extend the shelf life, and destroy strategic weapons and technical equipment products and special technical means.	50%
2	Directly research, design, experiment, test, measure, manufacture, produce, repair, convert, improve, modernize, increase shelf life, destroy mines, bullets, bombs, mines, grenades, propellants, explosives, explosive accessories, fire tools, radioactive substances.	30%
3	Directly research, design, experiment, test, measure, manufacture, produce, repair, convert, improve, modernize, extend the shelf life, and destroy cryptographic products and equipment serving cryptographic operations.	25%
4	Directly research, design, experiment, test, measure, manufacture, produce, repair, convert, improve, modernize, increase the shelf life, destroy weapons, technical equipment, professional technical means and technical materials (other than the products listed in Section 1, Section 2, Section 1 Section 5 of this List).	25%
5	Directly research, experiment, test, produce, and use special, toxic, and dangerous chemicals (asphyxiants, anesthetics, pungent chemicals, poisons). Directly research, experiment, test, and produce specialized chemicals for the production of weapons, technical equipment, professional technical means, firearms, explosives, and propellants.	25%
6	Directly manufacture tools, repair machinery and equipment, produce boxes and storage cabinets, or perform other technical assurance tasks to serve the testing, production, and repair of products listed from Section 1 to Section 5 of this List. Directly operate boilers, operate compressed air with pressure higher than 0.7 Bar for production lines of technical equipment and weapons products, professional technical means, propellants, and explosives.	20%
7	People in charge of managing, keeping warehouses, preserving, maintaining, loading, transporting, and escorting strategic weapons and technical equipment products and special technical means. People in charge of managing, keeping warehouses, preserving, maintaining, loading, transporting, escorting mines, bullets, bombs, mines, grenades, propellants, explosives, explosive accessories, fire tools, radioactive substances. People in charge of managing, storing, preserving, loading, transporting and escorting chemicals listed in Section 5 of this List.	20%
8	People in charge of managing, keeping warehouses, preserving, maintaining, loading, transporting, and escorting weapons, technical equipment, professional technical means, and technical supplies listed in Section 3 and Section 4 of this List. Directly perform the task of protecting and guarding warehouses of weapons, technical equipment, professional technical means, technical supplies, firearms, explosives, propellants, and radioactive substances.	15%