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British Military Base Pay Comparison

May 11th, 2008

Today a newspaper, The Independent, in United Kingdom published a story about how some members of the British Army must take out loans just to be able to eat. I though after reading the story a comparison would be in order.

Much like the United States’ Military the British provides compensation for food, housing and travel. They also have special pays for things like jumping out of perfectly good airplanes or going on a ship that sinks on purpose. But for this article I am only going to compare our basic enlisted military pay against the basic pay of the British for 2008.

When you look at the British chart you will see ranks of OR1, 2, all the way to OR9. The OR number (more…)


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