Skynews,
AFAIK, Cobham DOES NOT have a year of service for Command Pay; that is a Year 10 Capt earns exactly the same as a Year 4 Capt or IF and it would be a big IF, the need for DECs was there, the first year Capts pay would still be the same. I may be wrong but I think it is only the F/O pay that is indexed by the years of service. Happy to be corrected if this is not the case though.