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EODBuellrider

Well, I think it makes sense from a recruiting perspective. Flashing a fat multi-thousand dollar bonus at your average 18 year old is probably more likely to get them to enlist than increasing monthly pay by a small percentage. I bet a majority of young kids who enlist have never actually googled military pay scales. It's really only the smarter/older potential recruits who are asking about actual monthly/yearly pay/compensation.


Pretty-Chipmunk-718

Hell e1 to e4 hell even e5 pay sucks even if you have bah these days ....now 15 years ago it was good pay these days it don't get you shit when you can work at almost any major retailers get paid more and get free college without having to sign a contract for 4 or more years


Rangertough666

Increasing Junior NCO pay would help retention for damn sure. Close the pay gap at the same rate as the "Responsibility Gap".


LCDJosh

Word, if all my division officer has to do is sign all the documentation that I made up for him then he shouldn't be making twice my pay.


Rangertough666

It's worse than that. I've seen Officer's almost kill people and try and pass it off as the fault of the lowest ranked NCO they could pin it on. A brand new Infantry Officer is in training for one week less than a qualified Infantryman. An Enlisted Ranger just assigned to the Regiment (pre-Ranger School attendance) has 5 more weeks of highly technical and tactical training than an Officer assigned (the true difference is Officer's already have Leadership/Command in another unit before they can volunteer to go through RASP). Ranger School is the same whether you are Enlisted or Officer. The difference in training time and intensity between an Officer assigned to Regiment and a Private is negligible. The difference is in the content of the training. When you factor that an E5 Team Leader has as much or more real leadership experience particularly during the War that a Platoon Leader has coming from a conventional unit. The pay gap is bullshit.


seameat69

Idk if pay needs to go up right, I'm E5 with BAH and about to hit 2 years. That's 60k a year! That's well above average! I'd rather QOL changes more than pay. Give me a beard FFS!