Originally Posted by
high spirits
To add some balance. For the majority, it's more than 1% due to yearly increments.......
I covered this excuse earlier but for balance quite a few of us are at a band ceiling, those on promotion find the value of that jump reduced, others are on the new mark-time post promotion whilst others are frozen due to the new (but not improved) pay structure swindle.
Of those who will get an incremental progression are unlikely to find that it covers the increase in charges let alone inflation or, god forbid, average earnings index. This will be the 14th year in a row that military real-terms pay has been cut. Fourteen years. I would suggest that the vast majority serving in the Armed Forces have served less than 14 years, so have only ever known pay austerity.