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The fundamental goal of COLA is to compensate service members for the high cost of living at certain duty stations. COLA rates are based on a service member's pay grade, years of service, and number of dependents. An area is considered high cost if the cost of living for that area exceeds 108% of that national average of non-housing costs.
The Department of Defense announced increases in military housing allowances, family support programs, and child care and tuition assistance for military families in the 2011 budget request, many of which outpace the base pay increase.
The Department of the Navy "Civilian and Military Pay Grades" list can be found in Annex D of OPNAVINST 1710.7A: Social Usage and Protocol. The Department of the Air Force "Military and Civilian Rank Equivalents" can be found in Attachment 10 of AFI 34-1201. Consolidated DOD lists have been compiled by JMAR. [68]
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The pay grade of W-1 is normally reserved for officers appointed using a "warrant" [3] [22] rather than a "commission" [23] [24] by the Secretary of Defense or by each of the service secretaries, using authority delegated from the President, [25] to an intermediate rank between enlisted non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers ...
While the recently unveiled 2025 COLA, on paper, gave beneficiaries something to smile about, the 2026 COLA may be on track to make dubious history. Hand holding a Social Security card. Image ...
So the 2.5% COLA seniors got this month was calculated based on inflation from July through September of 2024. The Social Security Administration made its official 2025 COLA announcement in October.
The National Security Personnel System (NSPS) was a pay for performance pay system created in 2004-5 under authorization by Congress for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) [1] and implemented in mid-2006.