Regulations on consultant salaries as a basis for determining bid package prices

The Ministry of Home Affairs has regulated the salary of domestic consultants as the basis for determining the bid package price.

This Circular stipulates the salary level of domestic consultants (consultants) as the basis for preparing, appraising and approving the budget for bidding packages of investment projects, budgets for procurement, provision of public products and services, purchase of drugs, chemicals, testing materials, medical equipment, purchase of national reserve goods, hiring of storage of national reserve goods, bidding packages for equipment of technical facilities, machinery, equipment supporting science and technology or other works that must be organized for bidding according to the provisions of Clause 1, Clause 2 and Clause 3, Article 2 of the Law on Bidding.

Consultant Salary

According to the Circular, the monthly salary applicable to consultants with a full working period of 26 days is stipulated as follows:

- Level 1 , not exceeding VND 70,000,000/month for one of the following cases: consultants with a university degree, with specialized training appropriate to the consulting major and 15 years or more of experience in the consulting major; or consultants with a master's degree or higher, with specialized training appropriate to the consulting major and 8 years or more of experience in the consulting major; or consultants holding the position of Consulting Team Leader or in charge of organizing and operating consulting packages.

- Level 2 , not exceeding VND 55,000,000/month for one of the following cases: consultants with a university degree, with specialized training appropriate to the consulting major and from 10 to less than 15 years of experience in the consulting major; or consultants with a master's degree or higher, with specialized training appropriate to the consulting major and from 5 to less than 8 years of experience in the consulting major; or consultants taking on the position of head of the implementation of one or several items in the consulting bid package.

- Level 3 , not exceeding VND 40,000,000/month for one of the following cases: consultants with a university degree, with specialized training appropriate to the consulting major and with 5 to less than 10 years of experience in the consulting major; or consultants with a master's degree or higher and with 3 to less than 5 years of experience in the consulting major.

- Level 4 , not exceeding VND 30,000,000/month for one of the following cases: consultants with a university degree, with specialized training appropriate to the consulting major and with less than 5 years of experience in the consulting major; or consultants with a master's degree or higher, with specialized training appropriate to the consulting major and with less than 3 years of experience in the consulting major.

According to the Circular, for large-scale projects and works with complex techniques, using modern technology requiring consultants with special technical expertise, limited labor supply capacity of the labor market or difficult working conditions, in remote areas where the investor or the inviting party finds it necessary to apply a higher salary for consultants than the above salary, the investor or inviting party shall determine and report to the competent authority for consideration and decision on a higher salary for consultants, but not exceeding 1.5 times the monthly salary corresponding to the standards and conditions specified above.

Weekly, daily, hourly wages

The weekly salary applicable to consultants working 6 full days is determined based on the monthly salary specified above multiplied by 12 months, divided by 52 weeks.

The daily wage applicable to consultants working 8 hours is determined based on the monthly wage specified above divided by 26 days.

The hourly wage applicable to consultants working less than 8 hours is determined based on the monthly wage specified above divided by 26 days and divided by 8 hours.

The Circular clearly states that the salary for consultants specified above is the maximum level, including salaries for holidays, Tet holidays, and paid leave days according to the provisions of the Labor Code, costs of social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance and personal income tax under the responsibility of the employee according to the provisions of current laws on social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance and personal income tax; not including costs of social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance under the responsibility of the employer according to the provisions of current laws on social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance and management costs of the unit managing and using the expert (if any), travel costs, surveys, office rental, communication and other costs to ensure that the consultant performs the task.

This Circular takes effect from July 1, 2025. Circular No. 02/2015/TT-BLDTBXH dated January 12, 2015 of the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs stipulating salary levels for domestic consultants as the basis for estimating consulting service packages applying the form of contracts according to the time of using state capital ceases to be effective from the effective date of this Circular.

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