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Assessing Pay and Benefits for Military Personnel 1 (August 2007)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo9761 and id is 1 raw text is: A series ofissue summaries from the Congressional Budget Office AUGUST 15, 2007 Assessing Pay and Benefits for Military Personnel How Much Do Service Members Earn? All military personnel on active duty receive regular mili- tary compensation (RMC). About 60 percent of RMC consists of basic pay, which depends on a service mem- ber's rank and years of service. The rest of RMC consists of cash allowances for food and housing and the tax advantage that arises because those allowances are not subject to federal income taxes. In calendar year 2006, regular military compensation ranged from $29,700 for a single enlisted member in the lowest pay grade (E-1) to $85,900 for a single person in the highest enlisted grade (E-9).1 Personnel with dependents receive higher com- pensation: For an enlisted member with a spouse and two children, RMC ranged from $32,800 in grade E-1 to $89,600 in grade E-9 last year (see Table 1). Besides regular military compensation, the services offer more than 60 kinds of special pays (additions to monthly cash income) for personnel in certain situations, 1. This issue brief focuses specifically on enlisted personnel, who make up 83 percent of the U.S. military. as well as bonuses for enlisting or reenlisting. Some spe- cial pays or bonuses are targeted toward personnel who are in specific occupations (such as aviator, medical spe- cialist, submarine crewman, or linguist) or who perform hazardous duties (such as explosives demolition or crash- site investigation). In the Army, reenlistment bonuses averaged about $15,000 per person in 2006, and a small number of senior sergeants in the special forces (who were eligible to retire) received bonuses as high as $150,000. Other types of special pays are linked to deployment or combat. In 2006, service members with dependents who served away from their families for at least 30 days in a row received a family-separation allowance of $250 per month. Personnel who served in Iraq or Afghanistan could earn an additional $325 a month in imminent- danger pay and hardship-duty pay. Personnel whose tours in the Iraq theater were involuntarily extended beyond 12 months received an extra $200 per month in hardship-duty pay and $800 per month in assignment- incentive pay last year. (Some personnel who voluntarily extended their tours in Iraq or Afghanistan beyond

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