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Show PAY INCREASES i NOTED BY ARMY The regular army soldier, with his new pay raise now in effect, is among the highest paid workers work-ers in the world, announced M. Sgt. H. J Sparks, army recruiter, stationed at Bingham Canyon post office Tuesdays and Thursdays. Thurs-days. The new pay raise, recently signed by President Truman, ranges from a $19 boost per month for a staff sergeant, the lowest raise, to a $27 increase for a ma tor sergeant, who rated the highest high-est enlisted man's oay advance. A private first class and private received the next highest raises, with $26 and $25 raises, respectively. re-spectively. The new base pay raises include, in-clude, in order, the old scale, new ! scale and the difference: M. Sgt., $138, $165, $27; Tech. Sgt., $114, $135, $21; Staff Sgt., 1 $96, $115, $19; Sgt., $78, $100, $22; Corporal, $66, $90, $24; Pfc, $54, $80, $26; Private, $50, $75, $25. Employing conservative estimates, esti-mates, a master sergeant, in addition ad-dition to his monthly base pay of $165, receives $58 for dependency depend-ency allowances if he has a wife and one child (and $20 for each additional child); the equivalent of $75 for quarters, rations and j clothing; $10 for medical, dental j and hospital care, and $19 savings j on post exchange purchases and I income tax expenditures, making his total salary $327 per month in actual cash and services. On proportionate pay estimates a private gets $229 a month, only $98 less than a master sergeant. These figures include neither retirement benefits of approximately approxi-mately $80 per minth for which the soldier is eligible, nor educational educa-tional benefits under the G-I Bill of Rights, which total up to more than $6,000 free education after a three year enlistment. |
