As an E-5, I can tell you exactly what I make (although I am in the National Guard, when activated I get all of the pay and allowances that an Active Duty E-5 makes)
Basic Pay before taxes: 2582.10 Housing Allowance (for my area) 1137.00 Food Allowance: 250.00 Total: 3969.10 before taxes. And only the basic pay is taxed. These numbers are when not deployed. When deployed, add these numbers: Family Separation Allowance: 250.00 Imminent Danger Pay/Hostile Fire Pay: 225.00 Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay 150.00 That totals up to 4594.10 per month TAX FREE MONEY! Now, since I dumped that bitch of a wife I had, take away the 250.00 for Family Separation Allowance and that is what I would make. Since I am in the National Guard and I have to keep making payments on the house, I continue to receive the housing allowance. If I were single and did not have to maintain a home, then also subtract the 1137 for the housing allowance. Still, as a single person, that is a good chunk of change to make and save since the only bills I would have if deployed were my truck payment, house payment (rent actually) and my monthly utilities, which would be nothing since I am not living in the house for that time. That totals to a little over a grand a month in bills. I would end up putting away over 3,000 a month easy for 15 months. That is over 45K. And as far as contractors are concerned, I had a friend in Iraq who was working as PSD and he was making over 100K a year USD (he was British). I was offered a job with the US Marines as a ColdFusion programmer. My pay while at Camp Pendleton would have been about 4K a month, and when in Iraq with them for 7 months, I would have made over 100K in just those 7 months. Again that stupid bitch whined and cried for me not to go. Rather have me work installing cable than making real money. Oh well. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:24 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Military vs. Civilian pay Last I heard civilian contractors in Iraq were making pretty good money. Seems like security contractors were making $100 k or more a year. What does an e-5 make now days? So how can anyone compare military to civilian pay? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235154 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
