a P/ O was on Rs500 pm (about £36 pm)
As a Pilot Officer on my first squadron in 1962 I got about £45/month net. £5 to the mess for extra? messing and maintenance, About £17 on the bar book and the rest I squandered.
In about 1975 an married Pilot Officer on the ground staff at Odiham qualified for Supplementary Benefit.