Rates reference

Last updated 2026-07-01 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Finance Act 2026 had not been notified by FBR at time of writing. These slabs are carried forward unchanged from 2025-26 as a provisional estimate.

Last updated 2026-07-01 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Finance Act 2026 had not been notified by FBR at time of writing. These slabs are carried forward unchanged from 2025-26 as a provisional estimate.

Last updated 2026-07-01 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Carried forward unchanged from 2025-26 pending Finance Act 2026 notification.

Last updated 2026-07-01 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Carried forward unchanged from 2025-26 pending Finance Act 2026 notification.

Last updated 2026-07-01 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Carried forward unchanged from 2025-26 pending Finance Act 2026 notification.

Last updated 2026-07-01 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Carried forward unchanged from 2025-26 pending Finance Act 2026 notification.

Last updated 2026-07-01 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Carried forward unchanged from 2025-26 pending Finance Act 2026 notification.

Last updated 2026-07-01 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Carried forward unchanged from 2025-26 pending Finance Act 2026 notification.

Last updated 2026-07-29 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Minimum wage for EOBI contribution purposes is Rs 40,000/month in Punjab, Sindh, KP, and ICT; Balochistan continues on the prior Rs 37,000/month minimum wage. Verify current minimum wage and pension figures at eobi.gov.pk before relying on this for a real application — EOBI's own notifications are the authoritative source, not this site.

Last updated 2026-07-29 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Government employee gratuity is fully exempt per applicable service rules. Approved Gratuity Fund payments are exempt up to Rs 300,000. Unapproved/no-scheme gratuity is exempt up to the lower of 50% of the amount or Rs 75,000, with the remainder taxed as part of normal income. These thresholds are drawn from secondary sources, not a single fetched primary FBR document — confirm with FBR or a tax practitioner before filing.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Base energy tariff only — before the Quarterly Tariff Adjustment (QTA) and monthly Fuel Price Adjustment (FPA), both layered on top by the calculator from separate rate sets. Applies to ex-WAPDA DISCOs (LESCO, IESCO, MEPCO, FESCO, GEPCO, PESCO, HESCO, SEPCO, QESCO, TESCO) under the federal government's uniform national tariff policy. K-Electric runs a separate tariff determination not covered here — see PHASE-2-STATUS.md. 'Protected' status requires consumption ≤200 units/month consistently across the current and prior 6 months; crossing 200 units in any month reprices that whole month's bill on non-protected slabs. Non-protected slabs are cliff-priced: the entire month's units are billed at the rate of the highest slab reached, not blended marginally.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Base energy tariff only — QTA and FPA are layered on top from separate rate sets. Commercial tariff (A-2) is a single flat Rs/kWh rate, not slab-cliff priced like domestic (A-1). No 'protected' category exists for commercial consumers.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Negative (relief) adjustment of Rs.1.9857/kWh, applicable June, July and August 2026 bills, to all consumer categories except lifeline consumers, prepaid consumers, and units billed under the industrial/agricultural incremental consumption package. Reported consistently by Business Recorder, Dawn, Express Tribune, Geo News and Energy Update — the underlying NEPRA SRO PDF was not independently fetchable at research time, so this entry is corroborated by five independent news sources rather than a single primary document. Next quarter's adjustment (Sep-Nov 2026) is not yet notified as of this review — reviewBy flags when to check.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Actual Fuel Charges Component for May 2026 was Rs8.7679/kWh against a Reference Fuel Charges Component of Rs8.4315/kWh, producing this +Rs0.3364/unit adjustment, billed in July 2026. FPA is notified monthly with a lag — this is the most recent figure at research time; check reviewBy and update when the next month's notification lands.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Electricity Duty is levied provincially and the 1.5% figure is Punjab's — Sindh, KP, and Balochistan set their own rates under their own Electricity Duty Acts, not yet individually verified. GST (17%) and the Neelum-Jhelum surcharge (Rs0.10/unit) are federal and apply uniformly. Lifeline consumers are commonly reported as GST-exempt; the calculator applies this exemption.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Coverage districts and helpline numbers change infrequently but should be spot-checked periodically against each DISCO's own site.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — These are pre-filled, editable defaults, not statutory figures — actual wattage varies by brand, model, room size and usage pattern. Inverter AC values are average running draw with the compressor modulating, not peak startup draw.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Different irradiance datasets disagree by roughly 10-15% for the same city depending on methodology — these are deliberately rounded regional averages, not precise per-city measurements. Actual system output varies significantly by season, panel tilt, shading, and soiling. Balochistan and Sindh have the highest irradiance, Punjab is mid-range, and KP is lowest, consistent with the region's known solar resource pattern.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — 585W mono-PERC panels are the most commonly sold residential panel size in Pakistan as of 2026. The 80% derate factor bundles inverter conversion loss, wiring loss, temperature de-rating, dust/soiling and general system inefficiency into one conservative multiplier, consistent with standard solar-sizing practice. Lithium (LiFePO4) batteries with ~90% usable depth of discharge are now the common choice for new installations over older lead-acid banks.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — The exact NAEPP figure moves with NEPRA's periodic average-purchase-price calculations — Rs13/kWh is the figure reported at policy launch and corroborated across pv-magazine and Pakistani solar-industry coverage; treat as indicative and re-verify periodically rather than as a fixed statutory constant.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Solar hardware pricing moves with USD/PKR exchange rate and global panel prices — these bands are indicative and should be treated as provisional, refreshed more often than statutory rate data. On-grid (no battery) bands only; hybrid/off-grid systems add the battery-extra band on top.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Petrol and diesel prices are revised roughly every two weeks by the government. This figure will be stale within days of most site visits by design — the calculator should let users override it with the current price from their own last fill-up for a more accurate running-cost estimate.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Marla, Kanal, Killa, Murabba, and the Karam/Sarsai relationship are well-corroborated across independent sources. Bigha and Biswa absolute sizes are genuinely contested — sources disagree by more than 100x depending on whether they define Biswa as a fraction of Marla or a fraction of acre. This dataset uses the Kanal-linked convention (documented above) rather than treating either figure as universally correct.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — This is a representative LDA/CDA-style table, not a single official master regulation — LDA and CDA rules differ in detail from each other, and both differ from DHA, Bahria Town, and other private-society bylaws, which are NOT covered here and set their own coverage/setback rules per phase. Treat this as a planning starting point and confirm exact requirements with your specific development authority or society before finalizing a building plan — this is explicitly a lower-confidence, provisional dataset given the LDA source PDF's amendment history and inability to fully reconcile the 2019 base regulation against the 2021 draft amendments.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — These are midpoints of ranges cited across multiple sources (e.g. cement Rs 1,430-1,550/bag, steel Rs 235-252/kg, brick Rs 21-23/unit) — real prices vary by brand, quality grade, and distance from supplier. Boundary wall rate (precast, 6ft, all-inclusive) is a separately-costed item per PRD requirement, since it's conventionally excluded from per-sq-ft rates. Underground water tank, septic tank, and external paving are NOT modeled — sourced pricing for these was too inconsistent (a single range of Rs 80,000-400,000 with no stated capacity) to convert into a reliable per-unit rate, so the calculator excludes them rather than guessing. Marked provisional and reviewed roughly every 2 months given how quickly these move with cement/steel/fuel costs; the construction cost calculator displays these rates and their date directly so users can judge the estimate.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Wide low/mid/high bands reflect genuinely wide real-world variation across quality tier, city, and builder, not measurement imprecision — presented as a range on the calculator, never a single false-precision number, per PRD's own honesty requirement for this calculator. Material-share percentage (used for the material vs labour split) is a commonly cited approximation, not a precise measured figure.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — These multipliers are an honest approximation of a consistently-reported direction (premium societies and stricter bylaw areas cost more; secondary cities cost less), not a precisely measured differential. Treat the calculator's city-adjusted range as directional, and lean on the underlying tier rate's own low/high band for the real uncertainty.

Last updated 2026-07-31 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Rule-of-thumb averages, not a structural engineer's calculation for a specific design — actual quantities vary by number of storeys, wall thickness, slab design, and structural engineer's specification. Steel usage in particular varies a lot between slab areas (2.5-3.5 kg/sqft) and columns/beams (5-8 kg/sqft); this blended figure represents a typical whole-structure average for a standard single/double-storey home, not a per-element figure.

Last updated 2026-08-03 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Marked 'provisional' as a whole collection because most entries (all but FAST-NUCES, PIEAS, and QAU) rest on secondary-source consensus rather than a directly-fetched official formula page — several official university admission portals returned HTTP 403 or did not surface formula text on fetch. Every entry states its own confidenceLevel and sourceNote. Formulas change frequently and must be re-verified each admissions cycle against the institution's own prospectus before a student relies on the result — this is stated prominently on the calculator page. Nine institutions (IBA Karachi, LUMS, IIUI, UAF, Nishtar Medical University, Aga Khan University, Bahria University's general BS track, NED, NUML) were researched but excluded because their formulas were conflicting, unverifiable, or (for LUMS/IBA) genuinely holistic rather than formula-based — see PHASE-4-STATUS.md.

Last updated 2026-08-03 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Rolls out SSC-I/HSSC-I (Part I) from the 1st Annual Exam 2026 and SSC-II/HSSC-II (Part II) from the 1st Annual Exam 2027 — so students sitting Part II exams before 2027 may still be graded under the older FBISE 2023 scale (A++ 95-100, A+ 90-94, A 85-89, B++ 80-84, B+ 75-79, B 70-74, C 60-69, D 50-59, E 40-49, U <40) or an even older board-specific A1/A/B/C/D/E/F scale, depending on their board and year. This calculator applies the current IBCC 2025 scale as the default going forward; results for a student graded under an older scheme won't match exactly. No official numeric GPA has been published for the 2025 scale yet — IBCC has deferred GPA adoption, reportedly to around 2029. The 1100 total-marks convention is commonly cited but genuinely varies by board/group/year in some cases; treat the percentage as the reliable figure and the raw marks total as indicative.

Last updated 2026-08-03 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — UET's grading table could not be reliably extracted from a primary source (PDF text layer did not parse) and is excluded rather than estimated. COMSATS is represented by the shared 'HEC Standard' scale since its reported table matches the same underlying HEC Grading Criteria as FAST-NUCES. Six of the PRD's ten targeted institutions (UET, plus others without a distinctly-sourced table) are not separately modelled — see PHASE-4-STATUS.md.

Last updated 2026-08-02 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — The weight thresholds are fixed and confirmed. The reference PKR prices are a snapshot only — gold moved by roughly 0.1% and silver by up to ~7% between independently-dated sources within a single day during research, so these are seed values for the calculator's editable price fields, not a live or dependable rate. reviewBy is intentionally set 2 weeks out as a standing nudge, since a gold/silver price this stale should always be flagged for refresh regardless of when it's checked.

Last updated 2026-08-03 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — CII explicitly stated these figures are anchored to Punjab commodity prices and residents of other provinces should adjust for local prices — surfaced on the calculator page. Fidya (per missed fast) uses the same per-person figures. A new announcement is expected before the next Ramadan (~Jan-Feb 2027); reviewBy is set ahead of that.

Last updated 2026-08-03 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Prices vary heavily by city, breed, and how close to Eid al-Adha you buy — spiking sharply in the final week. These ranges are deliberately wide and low-confidence; the calculator treats the animal price as a fully user-editable input with these as starting placeholders, not as a rate a user should trust without checking their local mandi.

Last updated 2026-08-03 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Pakistan switched from fortnightly to DAILY fuel price notification in 2026 — these figures go stale faster than any other rate set on this site. reviewBy is set to roughly two weeks out as a standing nudge, not because the price is expected to hold that long. Every calculator using this data treats the price as a user-editable field with this as a starting default, never as an authoritative live rate.

Last updated 2026-08-03 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — KP and Balochistan are deliberately excluded — see the module doc comment. Motorcycle rates, car lifetime fees, and percentage-of-value bands are current best estimates rather than uniformly primary-confirmed; per-province confidenceNote above states exactly how each was sourced. Commercial-vehicle rates, transfer fees, and arrears/late-payment penalties are NOT modeled in this pass — the data was too fragmentary and inconsistent across provinces to model evenly (see PHASE-6-STATUS.md).

Last updated 2026-08-03 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Road distances are fixed physical facts (routes don't move), so this data doesn't go stale the way prices do — the reviewBy date is a periodic completeness/accuracy check, not a freshness concern. Five pairs had genuinely conflicting source figures where one reading looked like a straight-line/flight distance rather than road distance; those are resolved and flagged per-entry above. Multan-Bahawalpur has no direct source and is an estimate — flagged as lower confidence.

Last updated 2026-08-03 · Reviewed by Pakistan Calculator Editorial Team — Iqbal Day (9 November) was removed from the national calendar in November 2015 and restored in 2022 — do not assume it applied in every historical year if extending this calculator to past dates. 26 December is a Christian-community-specific holiday, not a universal public holiday, and is flagged as such via universalHoliday:false rather than being silently included or excluded. Youm-e-Takbeer (28 May) appeared in some years' circulars but isn't consistently gazetted annually, so it's deliberately excluded rather than guessed. Islamic-calendar holidays (Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Eid Milad-un-Nabi, Ashura) are never included here — see the module doc comment.