How much does a military person make a week?

Question

I have always wondered what they pay them

The Army....and I have been involved say 5 years

No I'm not preggers by a GI LOL
I have just always wondered if I made a mistake by not joining....It always lingered in the back of my mind where I would be If I had....and if so How much could I be making

I will let this question be decided in a vote ....Thanks so very much for you guys Insight!

Answer 1

It depends on rank and time in service. Check it out here.
http://www.military.com/military/benefits/0,15465,military_pay_charts,00.html

Answer 2

To answer your question in short: Every person gets paid different. The only exception is if they are the same rank with the same time in service or time Active Duty. It may also be different by branch. I don't know for sure though.

Someone who has gotten demoted will get paid for the rank but w/ the time in service added. So he/she could be a Lance Corporal w/ over 6 years. I give a better discription of this below.

There is a pay chart that comes out every year.
Everyone will look at it in the following way:

They will look for a row with their pay grade (E-1 through E-9, WO-CWO-5, O-1E through O-3E, and O-1 through O-10). Then they will look down the columns like an Excel spreadsheet for their total number of years enlisted or commissioned (ex: 3> or 3 plus years active duty).

To put this inte a greater perspective here is what mine would look like.....

E-5 w/ 4> which means I would be a Sergeant(Marine) w/ over 4 years.

In this box is where I find out how much I would make for that month. Basically we make a salary that is then broken down into bi-weekly payments.

I have added a pay chart so you can see exactly what one looks like. Just fill in some random email and your good to go.

One more thing is BAH and Seperations pay. There are several different factors that earn more money. How many kids do you have, married, home, doing business abroad etc. You can earn several thousand more just by being married and having a kid or two. I could go on and on about the different additions.
(BAH= Base Allowance Housing)

I am in the military so I know for sure this is how it works lol. I just read through all of the other answers. I am shocked some of the people who calim to be in know very little. There's one guy who think a General is an O-7? A 4 star General is an O-10 for reffernece.

An officer is indeed commissioned (by) the president to be an effective leader of his unit and branch. An NCO is a Non Commissioned Officer, meaning it is his job to enforce the rules and regulations of his supperiors.

An officer writes the rules, an NCO enforces them.
If you ever need any other help on the matter I would be glad to help you out.

Have fun.

Answer 3

It depends on the following:

1. Officer or Enlisted.

2. Pay Grade

3. Numerous other pay and allowances (i.e. Re-Enlistment Bonus, Area Incentive Pay, Hazardous Duty Pay, Basic Allowance for Housing, Sea Pay, etc... etc...).

Here is a couple of Basic Pay Charts:

"Enlisted Basic Pay Rates (Effective January 2006)

E-1 E-2 E-3 E-4 E-5 E-6 E-7 E-8 E-9**
Under 2* 1273.50* 1427.40 1501.20 1662.90 1814.10 1979.70 2288.70
Over 2 1273.50 1427.40 1595.70 1748.10 1935.30 2178.00 2498.10
Over 3 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 1842.60 2028.60 2274.30 2593.80
Over 4 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 1935.90 2124.80 2367.60 2720.70
Over 6 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2273.70 2465.10 2819.40
Over 8 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2402.10 2685.00 2989.50 3292.50
Over 10 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2496.60 2770.50 3084.90 3438.30 4022.10
Over 12 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2526.60 2865.30 3180.30 3528.30 4113.30
Over 14 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2526.60 2948.70 3350.40 3636.30 4228.20
Over 16 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2526.60 2978.10 3435.60 3753.30 4363.50
Over 18 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2526.60 2998.50 3516.30 3964.50 4499.40
Over 20 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2526.60 2998.50 3565.80 4071.60 4717.80
Over 22 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2526.60 2998.50 3732.60 4253.70 4902.30
Over 24 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2526.60 2998.50 3840.60 4354.80 5097.00
Over 26 1273.50 1427.40 1692.00 2018.40 2526.60 2998.50 4113.60 4603.50 5394.00

* For E-1 with less than 4 months of service, basic pay is $1,178.10
** For the MCPO of the Navy or Coast Guard, CMSgt of the AF, Sergeant Major of the Army or Marine Corps, basic pay is $6,499.50

Officer Basic Pay Rates (Effective January 2006)

O-1 O-2 O-3 O-4 O-5 0-6 O-7 O-8 O-9 O-10**
Under 2 2416.20 2783.10 3221.40 3663.90 4246.50 5094.00 6872.70 8271.00
Over 2 2514.60 3170.10 3651.90 4241.40 4783.50 5596.20 7191.90 8541.90
Over 3 3039.60 3651.00 3941.70 4524.30 5115.00 5963.40 7339.80 8721.60
Over 4 3039.60 3774.30 4297.50 4587.60 5177.10 5963.40 7457.10 8772.00
Over 6 3039.60 3852.00 4503.00 4850.10 5383.50 5985.90 7669.80 8996.10
Over 8 3039.60 3852.00 4728.90 5131.80 5507.40 6242.70 7879.50 9371.10
Over 10 3039.60 3852.00 4875.30 5482.20 5779.20 6276.60 8122.50 9458.10
Over 12 3039.60 3852.00 5115.90 5755.80 5978.70 6276.60 8364.90 9814.20
Over 14 3039.60 3852.00 5240.70 5945.40 6236.10 6633.30 8607.90 9916.20
Over 16 3039.60 3852.00 5240.70 6054.30 6630.60 7263.90 9371.10 10222.80
Over 18 3039.60 3852.00 5240.70 6117.60 6818.10 7634.10 10015.80 10666.20
Over 20 3039.60 3852.00 5240.70 6117.60 7003.80 8004.00 10015.80 11075.40 11689.50 13365.00
Over 22 3039.60 3852.00 5240.70 6117.60 7214.40 8214.60 10015.80 11348.70 11857.50 13430.40
Over 24 3039.60 3852.00 5240.70 6117.60 7214.40 8427.60 10015.80 11348.70 12101.10 13709.70
Over 26 3039.60 3852.00 5240.70 6117.60 7214.40 8841.30 10015.80 11348.70 12525.60 14196.30

* While serving as JCS/Vice JCS, CNO, CMC, Army/Air Force CS, commander of a unified or specified combatant command, basic pay is $15,615.90 (See **)
** Basic pay for an O-7 to O-10 is limited by Level III of the Executive Schedule which is $12,666.60. Basic pay for O-6 and below is limited by Level V of the Executive Schedule which is $11,158.200

Commissioned Officer*
O-1E O-2E O-3E
Under 2
Over 2
Over 3
Over 4 3039.60 3774.30 4297.50
Over 6 3246.30 3852.00 4503.00
Over 8 3366.00 3974.70 4728.90
Over 10 3488.70 4181.40 4875.30
Over 12 3609.30 4341.60 5115.90
Over 14 3774.30 4460.70 5318.40
Over 16 3774.30 4460.70 5434.50
Over 18 3774.30 4460.70 5592.90
Over 20 3774.30 4460.70 5592.90
Over 22 3774.30 4460.70 5592.90
Over 24 3774.30 4460.70 5592.90
Over 26 3774.30 4460.70 5592.90

Warrant Officer
W-1 W-2 W-3 W-4 W-5
Under 2 2361.30 2673.90 3039.90 3328.80
Over 2 2554.50 2826.60 3166.80 3581.10
Over 3 2683.80 2960.40 3296.40 3684.00
Over 4 2767.50 3057.30 3339.30 3785.10
Over 6 2990.40 3140.70 3475.50 3959.40
Over 8 3124.80 3369.60 3631.50 4131.30
Over 10 3243.90 3544.50 3837.30 4305.90
Over 12 3376.80 3674.40 4040.40 4475.70
Over 14 3465.00 3801.30 4256.40 4651.50
Over 16 3544.80 3888.30 4418.40 4927.20
Over 18 3674.70 3961.50 4579.80 5103.60
Over 20 3773.10 4100.70 4649.10 5276.10 5720.10
Over 22 3773.10 4239.00 4720.80 5454.90 5916.30
Over 24 3773.10 4379.10 4876.80 5631.00 6113.10
Over 26 3773.10 4379.10 5032.50 5811.00 6311.10

* Commissioned Officer with over 4 years of active service as an enlisted or a warrant officer. Applicable to O-1 to O-3 with at least 4 years & 1 day of active duty or more than 1460 points as a warrant and/or enlisted member. See DoDFMR for more detailed explanation on who is eligible for this special basic pay rate."

Finally, the service member is paid twice a month the 1st and the 15th.

Answer 4

That would depend upon your rank as well. Each rank gets paid differently, no matter how much time they have been in. An E-1 would make $1273.50 per month, an E-2 would make $1427.40 per month, an E-3 would make $1692.00 per month, and E-4 would make $1935.90 per month, an E-5 would make $2124.60, an E-6 would make $2367.60 (highly unlikely that anyone who has only been in 5 years would be an E-6 or higher, though). An E-7 would make $2720.70 per month. If you are an officer, which means you would have a college degree and become commissioned, then the pay chart is completely different. An O-1 would make $3039.60 a month, an O-2 would make $3774.30 per month, an O-3 would make $4297.50 per month, an O-4 would make $4587.60 per month, O-5 $5117.10 per month, O-6 $5963.40, O-7 $7457.10, O-8 $8996.10. This is the base pay scale for military. Other benefits may get paid out depending on marital status, if you live on or off base, etc... Hope this helps.

Answer 5

We don't make weekly pay, but monthly. They advance half a soldier's montly pay halfway through the month automatically unless the soldier requests not to receive it. But We get paid on the first and the 15th of each month.

It depends upon a soldier's grade (not rank, rank is based upon position and authority) and how long they have been in the service.

As an E-6 with over 19 years total time in (I started national guard for 5 years, which counts as time in for pay), I make close to $3k a month before taxes are taken out and benefits are added in. We also get money for food (about $210 a month) and housing (depends on grade and where you live). I take home, after taxes, close to $3.5k a month.

Officers make a LOT more. Junior enlisted (E-1 thru E-4) make a lot less. an E-4 probably takes home close to $2k a month, so about $500 a week. Maybe less.

It used to be worse but a Republican Majority House back in the mid-90s set in a bill for better cost of living pay raises, and President Bush lobbied hard and won a bill to attempt to normalize our pay with what we could be making on the outside. That bill was signed into law In Kosovo, August 2001, at Camp Bondsteel.

By the way, our base pay charts are a matter of public record.

Answer 6

It's unbelievable some of the answers on here that people have given you. It's obvious most of them have had no experience with military life and are either flat out making up answers, or going by what they have been told by someone else who has never been in the military!
Anyway, it depends on your rate, rank and where you live.You're paid on the first and fifteenth of every month. If you decide to live off base you receive a housing allowance, which is also based on your rank.
You do make more money over seas. My husband took orders to Italy two years ago, and we make a lot more here then we did Stateside. Our housing allowance it's much more then what we got in the States, and our regular pay is better.
There are some rates that will give out bonuses because they are harder to fill. And you can also get re-enlistment bonuses. Sometimes they are a lot, and not sometimes they aren't, and sometimes you don't get any! My husband has been in for twenty years and was actually do to retire from the Navy, but we decided that he would extend for two more years so he can finish school and receive his bachlors degree. And we'll receive a small bonus because he extends. And when he gets out, we'll receive a retirment check for the rest of our lives, and he'll have money from his GI bill to attend law school like he he wants.
Anyway, the pay isn't great, but we survive! And if you are willing to live overseas, then the money is better. Not to mention that it's a great opportunity to travel and see other parts of the world!

Answer 7

The Military is broken down by 2 types of pay grades you have Enlisted pay grades and you have officer pay grades. Now each Pay grade (rank) has a corrisponding name for example E-1 means (In the Navy) Enlisted Seaman recruit. The Enlisted Pay scale goes from E-1 All the way up to E-9 the officer Pay scale is O-1 to O-10. So each person depending on there pay grade make a certian amount of money. I am i an E-5 with 6 yrs of service in the navy so i make about $757.90 a week.
If you were to join as an E-1 you would make $318.38,

I hope this awnsered your question.

Thank you,

Thomas Lochowicz
HM2(AW)AVT/USN

Answer 8

Pay is also benefits.

The bases have low cost facilities and you are getting relatively free food, shelter and medical. This adds up when you do the math.

Try to also realize it is a salary and NOT an hourly wage. You are technically always working. You can be arrested for cutting yourself shaving if it means you cannot report for duty. It is considered "damaging military property".

I left the Marines before cell phones and laptops which really flip the script on educational opportunities.

Know who you are and realize you are part of a well run defensive and offensive when necessary force. If you find you are a pacifist stay out, it is really not for you.

A word of advice find out quickly if you like the lifestyle and if you do stay and contribute until you retire. Also never neglect your health as you will want to enjoy retirement. There are benefits there too.

Choose wisely ... $15,000 goes a long way with minimum bills and expenses. Though many marry and start families in my opinion the military is a single persons lifestyle.

Good Luck!

Also in terms of direct contact with an enemy not including special forces I would rate the services as follows:

Coast Guard, Marines, Army, Navy and Air Force.

When you consider the Special Forces units this order is probably a tie.

There is also FBI, DEA, CIA, Secret Service and National Guard.

Answer 9

I can't believe how many people answered this question and they don't know jack sh*t!!!!! You get paid based on your rank, time in service, additional training,( language proficiency, jump pay, combat pay and so forth and so on), dependents, housing allowance, and cost of living. ALL branches of the military give you the option of being paid on the 15th AND at the EOM-end of month. No branch makes it mandatory you get paid once a month, that's an option very few service members take. Every branch also pays the same for rank only, so an Army E-4 EARNS the same as an E-4 in the Marine Corp. with the same amount of time in rank and service. Every year you get a pay increase to keep up with inflation. It's usually about 2.2%. One year we got two pay raises, one in Jan. and one in Jul., that's about the only good thing I can say that rat Bill Clinton did that was good for our country. If you felt you should have wanted to join the military for pay, then we don't want you. No person should join for money, it's a lifestyle and an obligation.

Answer 10

Don't forget to include BAQ (Base allowance Quarters) and BAS (Base allowance Sustanance). These are covered in your pay, because basicly you don't pay for food or shelter. The biggest plus of military service is that your "basics" are covered and you never have to worry about them. I haven't been in the military in about 15 years so the numbers that I have are probably really old. Ohhhh one more thing depending on your skill set you can get "signing" bonus. This will also boost your pay. Ahhhh and another thing officers make more than enlisted. A good reason to have a degree or better yet, hustle your but and the military will pay for it. I wouldn't look at the issue of money I would more look at the issue of what you like to do. If you like a lot of structure and support then the military could be a good choice. If you are a free spirit, ignore the military all together.

Answer 11

It all depends on your rank. There isn't a difference in time of service but it gives you an estimate as to what rank it might be. It is kinda hard to say for Army personnel because they are given rank based on their performance where as in the Air Force, the first few ranks are earned based on time in service and then the rest is earned based on tests! You also get paid more if your married and/or have kids, and also if you are in a war zone like overseas!

Hypothetically you said maybe 5 years, they might be an E4 or E5 rank! You also get paid on a monthly salary, so for an E4 it's about $1500 per month! It's not that much. And that's just if you're living single with no extra pay!