Progression pay hit
Pontius,
Very happy to see all useful qualifications rewarded....aircrew or not. Part of the problem with military pay is that it doesn't reward those who stay. As a 25 year old none of my peers earned anything like what I was paid and when I retired one of my contemporaries who joined the airlines after 20 years in the mob earns more than I did even though he is only a copilot. If joiners have to be paid less to enable a truly progressive pay scale to be created then so be it. I don't think recruitment is a problem for the military.....retention most certainly is.
Very happy to see all useful qualifications rewarded....aircrew or not. Part of the problem with military pay is that it doesn't reward those who stay. As a 25 year old none of my peers earned anything like what I was paid and when I retired one of my contemporaries who joined the airlines after 20 years in the mob earns more than I did even though he is only a copilot. If joiners have to be paid less to enable a truly progressive pay scale to be created then so be it. I don't think recruitment is a problem for the military.....retention most certainly is.
