Re: How fast is enlisted promotion now?

DeepSea <deep_sea01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:I have routinely seen really
:good petty officers in technical rates (nucs and some others) as well as
:in demand skills (ie: SEAL/EOD) make chief in about 8 years.
:

That sounds about right. As I recall it, you used to go eligible for
E-6 at around 4.5-5 years, which would put E-7 at around 8 years.

:
:As far as the money goes - check out the pay tables. All of the
:submarine department heads (senior O3/junior O4) are over $100K; senior
:O4s that have prior enlisted time that "maxes" them out for pay are
:about $130K; the major variation being the variable housing allowance
:for the part of the country one lives in. A 26 yr E8 in Pearl Harbor
:can be over $100K with bonuses.
:

These numbers seem high. An O-4 maxed out for pay makes a bit over
$77k in base pay on the 2008 scales. To make your proposed $130k he
would have to be getting over $4k per month in bonuses and such. An
O-4 comes in around $600/month in submarine pay. An O-4 in Honolulu
gets around $3k per month in housing allowance (assuming dependents).
Anywhere outside Honolulu County is lower. That comes up to around
$120k, or around $10k short. I can get around half of that with BAS,
but I'm still $5k short. What am I missing?

An E-8 maxes out at less than $60k per year. To hit your numbers he'd
have to be getting something like $3.5k per month in extra pay. An
E-8 with dependents in Honolulu County gets around $2.6k per month in
housing allowance and a bit over $400 per month in sub pay. That only
leaves me around $5k short, so that's probably believable given BAS of
around $3.6k per year.

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