Aircrew ranks - WWII

[ian16th]

Originally Posted by Ormeside28

Then pay was almost doubled in ( I think)
1955 when we, nearly all, bought new cars! Pay very good, especially with marriage allowance, mileage to work allowance, and best of all local overseas allowance. Pay almost doubled when posted to Changi in 1958, but when every six weeks to Gan for SAR, we lost our overseas allowance! Hope this helps.

The BIG pay rise was 1st April 1956.

Dunno about aircrew and officers, but I finished my Fitters course in Feb.

Before that date I was an SAC on 11/- a day.
Promotion to J/T moved me to 14/6 a day.
1st April pay rise took me to 21/6 a day.
In the Aug promoted to Cpl on 24/6.

A very big change in 6 months.

At the announcement of the April increase, the OC at Lindholme took great pride in pointing out that a W.O. in and advanced trade, married & living out was now getting over £1,000 per annum!

Those numbers are subject to my brain fade. But the orders of magnitude are about right.

Re: you going on detachment to Gan.
The big factor would be you went from Living Out to Living in.
The rates of Local Overseas Allowance (LOA) were always very different between LIP's and LOP's.

I suffered the same while at Akrotiri, living out in Limassol and sent on detachment to Karachi.