Age Calculator for Government Jobs

Use the “age as on” date given in the recruitment notice. Then compare your recorded date of birth with the age requirements for the post and any birth-date range the notice provides. The application deadline or examination date may be different from the age cutoff.

For example, someone born on 15 August 1995 is 30 years, 11 months and 17 days old on 1 August 2026. Checking their age on their birthday two weeks later would give an answer for the wrong date if the notice uses 1 August.

An age range such as “18–27 years” does not explain every boundary on its own. If the notice gives “not earlier than” and “not later than” birth dates, compare your date of birth directly with those dates.

SSC CGL 2026 uses 1 August 2026 as its age reference. Before applying any relaxation, its post groups have these birth-date windows: [S23]

Both end dates are included in each window. Use the row for the post you want. An 18–32 limit for one post does not extend an 18–27 limit for another.

Take the SSC CGL 2026 window for an 18–27 post, before relaxation:

The person born on 1 August 1999 turns exactly 27 on 1 August 2026. Even so, their birth date falls outside this published window without relaxation. A general check for “27 or younger” would miss that boundary.

Use these examples for the cited SSC notice. Another recruitment may publish different dates or wording.

Age relaxation changes the limit used for eligibility. It does not change your actual age or date of birth.

For SSC CGL 2026, the listed upper-age relaxations include 5 years for SC/ST and 3 for OBC. The specified PwBD, PwBD-OBC and PwBD-SC/ST categories have relaxations of 10, 13 and 15 years respectively. [S23]

As a simple calculation, adding an allowed three-year relaxation to a nominal upper limit of 27 gives 30. You still need to follow the notice's exact relaxed birth-date boundary and category conditions. Add concessions together only when the notice expressly permits that combination.

A reservation category does not automatically bring an age concession. Do not assume an EWS age relaxation, or carry an SSC concession over to UPSC, a railway recruitment, a bank or a state service. Check the provision for the particular application.

Some rules first deduct qualifying military service from the applicant's age. SSC CGL 2026 specifies a three-year concession after that deduction for its ESM category. [S23]

For an arithmetic example, 35 years of actual age minus 8 years of qualifying service gives an adjusted age of 27 for the permitted comparison. Your actual age remains 35. The adjusted figure is not the age to enter in an ordinary personal-details field.

Use the precise service dates and the notice's definition of qualifying service. Rounding service to the nearest year can affect a result close to the limit.

When saving an age check, include the recruitment year, post, cutoff, date of birth and any relaxation used. Those details explain why the result applies to that application.

Passing the age condition does not confirm acceptance of the application. Qualifications, experience, certificate validity and other requirements must also be met. If a corrigendum changes the age rule, calculate again using the amended notice.