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Pay grades [1] are used by the eight structurally organized uniformed services of the United States [2] (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps), as well as the Maritime Service, to determine wages and benefits based on the corresponding military rank of a member of the services.
The law specified what percentage of the enlisted strength of the army were allowed in each of the seven grades. The first grade would contain .6% of the army's enlisted men, the second grade 1.8%, the third grade 2%, the fourth and fifth grades 9.5%, the sixth grade 25% and the remaining 51.6% in the seventh grade.
As an example (and not including locality adjustments), an employee at GS-12 Step 10 (base salary $96,770) being promoted to a GS-13 position would initially have his/her salary set at GS-13 Step 4 (base salary $97,373, as it is the nearest salary to GS-12 Step 10 but not lower than it), and then have his/her salary adjusted to a higher step ...
The fourth character of the MOSC represents skill level (commensurate with rank and grade): "0" is used to identify personnel undergoing training for award of a primary MOS (PMOS). "1" identifies a private (PVT) through specialist (SPC/pay grade E-4) or corporal (CPL/also pay grade E-4) "2" identifies a sergeant (SGT/pay grade E-5)
Pay will be largely based on rank, which goes from E-1 to E-9 for enlisted members, O-1 to O-10 for commissioned officers and W-1 to W-5 for warrant officers. Commissioned and warrant officers will be paid more than their enlisted counterparts. Early pay grade promotions are quite frequent, but promotions past E-4 will be less frequent.
The Army is currently restructuring its personnel management systems, as of 2019. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Changes took place in 2004 and continued into 2013. Changes include deleting obsolete jobs, merging redundant jobs, and using common numbers for both enlisted CMFs and officer AOCs (e.g. "35" is military intelligence for both officers and enlisted).
Thompson, Erwin N. Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905-1980 (US Government Printing Office, 1985) online. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Builders and Fighters: U. S. Army Engineers in World War II (University Press of the Pacific, 2005) 556pp ISBN 1410221776
The commissioned officer ranks of the United States Army can be split into three categories, from highest to lowest: general officers, field grade officers and company grade officers. [1] General officers encompass the ranks from brigadier general up. [1] Field grade includes major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel. [1]