How does pay in the military work? |
This is definitely a common question amongst those who are considering the military. Pay!
Like many other organizations in this world, the military bases pay off of a paid short or pay scale. The way it works is the higher you go on the pay scale, the more money you make. But on the same note, the longer you are in the military total, the more money you will make within that same rank and over time.
There are other factors when it comes to your total pay as well such as :
- Special Duty Assignment (SDA) pay (Recruiters, Drill instructors, Combat Instructors, Marine security guard, etc),
- Basic allowance for housing (BAH) For those who are married (this varies based off your duty station zip code)
- Special pay: Jump wings, dive bubbles, etc
- Language pay: Depending on the language and if it’s being used in your duties etc.
These are the main ways you can get paid in addition to your normal paycheck. Now again this is not everything, when you deploy you rate things such as hazard duty pay, families separations pay if you’re married, COLA depending on where you live overseas, etc so there are other ways, but some aren’t always common.
Lastly we get paid every two weeks (1st and 15th) No matter what! It doesn’t matter if there is a pandemic or a recession or something going on in the world that has the potential to affect civilians and their pay, your pay in the military will always be guaranteed!
Hope you learned something!
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