Currently, base pay for an ensign is $2469 a month.
As of 2008, it is approximately $2550.
My BAH when I report to Pensacola this summer is $1100 a month,
As of 2008, it is approximately $1036. Changes, up or down, annually depending on the local rental market. Officers residing in govt quarters and BOQs will basically relinquish this allowance.
Additionally, once I get my wings I'll start receiving flight pay, which starts at $150 or so a month and increases every couple of years.
$125 per month for Ensigns commencing the month they first step in the cockpit for training, not getting their wings.
I know the surface guys get sea pay, but you'll have to ask one of them for specifics.
Sea pay for everyone, aviators included, commences after 36 months at sea. Airdales, unless ship's company, only receive it if they are actually deployed. Black shoes and submariners receive credit and ultimately sea pay, after the 36 month window, any time they are on sea duty, deployed or not.
Also, if you're deployed in any community, you get hazardous duty pay each month you're deployed.
Wrong. Depending on conditions, if you are actually deployed inside a war zone, you may receive hostile fire pay and tax exempt income but not hazardous duty pay. HDP is normally associated with non aircrew performing aviation duties, such as non-crewmember flying or parachuting, or working on the flight deck.
Additionally, all officers receive $202.76 for BAS (basic allowance for subsistance-food). This is the same $202.76 budget that the Academy is being forced to utilize when feeding the Brigade. Once an officer, when deployed, they will join the mess. The Mess President determines mess dues which most ofter exceed BAS. But when ashore and not on sea duty, it is an allowance for food, however the officer sees fit.
There are many other special pays including foreign language, dive, submarine, etc.
