How will the 2025 Salary Policies Change? What Should Businesses Prepare to Optimize Payroll?
05/06/2025
The year 2025 marks a significant transformation in labor and salary management in Vietnam, especially in central agencies and state-owned enterprises. Two new legal documents – Decree 92/2025/NĐ-CP and Circular 003/2025/TT-BNV – officially take effect from mid-June 2025 and set out new requirements for human resource management systems.
As the core unit responsible for cost control and maintaining team motivation, the HR department and company leadership cannot overlook the impact of these policies. At the same time, payroll services are becoming increasingly essential tools to help businesses adapt flexibly, save costs, and ensure full legal compliance.
New Salary Policy for Senior Experts at Central Agencies
Decree 92/2025/NĐ-CP, effective from June 15, 2025, specifically regulates the salary and employment regime for senior experts in Party and State agencies at the central level. This group includes individuals with high professional qualifications and special responsibilities, including Vietnamese experts abroad and invited foreign experts.
A key highlight of the decree is the establishment of a clear salary coefficient system, categorized by position and duties:
- Experts not holding a position or holding a position with an allowance coefficient below 0.9: classified as level 1, coefficient 8.80.
- Holding a position with a coefficient from 1.0 – 1.25: classified as level 2, coefficient 9.40.
- Holding a position with a coefficient of 1.30 or more: classified as level 3, coefficient 10.00.
Notably, if the new salary coefficient is lower than the total old coefficient (including salary, allowances, seniority…), the employee will be entitled to retain the difference. This mechanism avoids income loss and ensures stability during the policy transition.
Decree 92/2025/ND-CP will officially take effect from June 15, 2025:
To assist customers in understanding the changes, NIC Global would like to send you the full version of this Decree for reference:
State-Owned Enterprises: Salary Management Tied Closely to Business Performance
Circular 003/2025/TT-BNV, effective from June 15, 2025, is the next step in tightening salary and bonus management in state-owned enterprises. Accordingly:
- The salary fund is built based on pre-tax profits, labor productivity, and return on capital.
- If actual profits exceed the plan, the enterprise may pay additional salary, but not more than 20% of the excess profit and no more than two months of average salary.
This circular aims to tie employee income to real business outcomes, while enhancing transparency and preventing excessive wage spending in the public sector.
New Pressure on Private Enterprises: Optimize Salary Policy to Compete and Retain Talent
Although not directly applied to the private sector, these two policies are indirectly shaping a new salary benchmark, especially for senior personnel, experts, and skilled workers. This creates pressure for private enterprises to:
- Retain high-quality personnel amid improved public sector policies.
- Address growing employee focus on salary–bonus comparisons.
- Provide transparent, public salary policies and clear raise roadmaps to build motivation and trust.
To respond to these shifts, many businesses are turning to professional payroll services – a solution that ensures accuracy, transparency, and minimizes legal risks.
Payroll Service – A Strategic Tool for Businesses in 2025
More than just calculating payroll, service providers like NIC Global deliver added value:
- Legal compliance: Accurate, complete payroll following the latest regulations, minimizing audit and penalty risks.
- Time & resource saving: Reduces the burden on internal HR – accounting teams.
- Transparent, traceable data: Enables leaders to make decisions based on accurate reports.
- Continuous updates on new regulations about social insurance, PIT, regional minimum wage, allowances…
With such changes underway, not all businesses have the capacity to stay up to date and correctly apply the new salary regulations. Switching to payroll outsourcing helps businesses move faster, more accurately, and more safely.
NIC Global – A Reliable Payroll Service Partner During This Transition
With over 20 years of experience in HR and payroll management, NIC Global is now a strategic partner of hundreds of businesses in Vietnam. Our payroll service goes beyond calculation and includes:
- Salary policy consulting by industry
- Integrated timekeeping, payroll, tax reporting management
- Standardized digital document archiving system, easy to audit and verify
- Support with tax finalization and periodic social insurance reports
Especially in 2025 – a time full of policy changes – NIC Global continuously updates new legal documents and provides alerts and suggestions for salary policy adjustments tailored to each business.
Payroll is the lifeblood of every business.
When policies change, businesses must act quickly, accurately, and strategically. Let NIC Global accompany you in optimizing your salary policies, managing HR effectively, and getting ready for the future.
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