Calculate Modified Assured Career Progression benefit. Know your level upgrade at 10, 20, and 30 years. Shows exact pay hike.
Enter your service years and current level to calculate MACP upgradation.
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MACP grants financial upgradation to the next Pay Level at 10, 20, and 30 years if regular promotions are insufficient.
See the exact basic pay hike and take-home increase at each MACP milestone based on the official Pay Matrix.
Regular promotions count against MACP — this calculator accounts for both so you see only the net benefit correctly.
Modified Assured Career Progression (MACP) is a scheme introduced in 2008 to ensure that Central Government employees who do not receive regular promotions still get financial upgradation at regular intervals. Under MACP, employees are entitled to three upgradations to the next higher Pay Level in the Pay Matrix at 10, 20, and 30 years of regular service.
MACP upgradation is to the next Pay Level in the Pay Matrix hierarchy, not the next promotional post. If your Level is 6, MACP takes you to Level 7, then Level 8, then Level 9 — regardless of whether your cadre has posts at those levels. MACP is financial only; it does not confer any designation, seniority, or non-functional promotion.
MACP and regular promotion interact. If you received 1 regular promotion in 10 years, the 1st MACP at 10 years is deemed absorbed. Your next MACP becomes due at 20 years. In short: total upgradations (promotions + MACP) = up to 3 MACP grants minus regular promotions already received.
MACP is subject to passing a "benchmark" performance criterion — "Very Good" or above in the APAR. If your APAR has been graded below benchmark in the preceding period, MACP can be withheld. This is an important condition many employees overlook.
You are entitled to a maximum of three MACP upgradations in your entire service — at 10, 20, and 30 years of regular qualifying service. Regular promotions received before each benchmark year are adjusted against this entitlement.
No. ACP (Assured Career Progression) was the old scheme that gave 2 upgradations at 12 and 24 years. MACP replaced ACP from September 2008 and gives 3 upgradations at 10, 20, and 30 years. Employees already under ACP at the time of transition were given options to switch.
Yes — indirectly. If you are under the Old Pension Scheme (joined before Jan 2004), your pension is based on last drawn pay. MACP upgradation increases your basic pay at each milestone, which in turn increases your eventual pension. For NPS-covered employees, the higher basic pay means higher monthly NPS contributions and a larger retirement corpus.