Army’s Method for Setting Pay and Granting Pay Raises Christine Rollins Webster University Abstract This paper explorers the methods that the Army uses for setting pay and granting pay raises. The basic pay that is received is based off of two things, the amount of time one has been in the service and the rank at which one hold. Outside of the basic pay there are also allowances and special pay that are included in the total compensation package. In regards to pay raises, there is an annual
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started to view and understand what could be the total compensation as part of the organization’s strategic planning in human resources management and operations. There are many ways to pay the compensation to its employees. Many people, especially the soldiers care about their base pay. If a soldier’s base pay is $18,000 a year then is it really less than a civilian who gets $20,000 a year as an individual’s total compensation? Most of soldiers and include myself didn’t understand the concept
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Jamshedpur Acknowledgements The XLRI Team is thankful to the Sixth Pay commission for offering their support during the entire length of the project. The XLRI team also thanks the representatives of all the government sectors that offered their views and patiently answered the questions the team asked them. We thank the numerous government employees who participated in the study conducted by the team to elicit their views regarding the pay mix. The team is especially thankful to Ms. Madhulika P. Shukul
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CONTENTS Your References ....................................................................... i Pay and Allowances ........................................................ 1 Basic Pay .................................................................... 1 Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) ...................... 1 Housing Allowances .................................................... 2 Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) .................... 3 Transit Housing Allowance (BAH-T) ............
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1. INTRODUCTION One of the traditional Human Resource (HR) functions is determining employees’ compensation. In modern organisations, with variety of costly employee benefit programmes, wage incentive programmes and structured pay scale, the compensation task is even more difficult and challenging for an HR specialist. Employee compensation can affect their productivity and their tendency to stay with the organisation. The HR manager must ensure that the compensation policy does not lead to high
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PROJECTED PAY STRUCTURE AFTER 7TH PAY COMMISSION (BASED ON COMPARATIVE RISE FROM 1ST TO 6TH CPC) Demand for setting of Seventh Pay Commission is being raised since January 2011 on completion of 5 years since the date of effect of the sixth Pay Commission - as recommended by the last 2 Pay commissions. Till now six pay commissions had been constituted since 1946 - to review and recommend pay structure of central government employees. All the six pay commissions have taken many aspects into consideration
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Negatives of a Pay Raise Cap Andrew Cursi 215 July 14, 2014 Daria Woodside Negatives of a Pay Raise Cap While the potential money saved by putting a cap on military pay raises might seem appealing, it would have a negative impact on the Armed Forces and their members. Putting a limit on military pay raises could and more than likely will affect how well the military recruits and retains members. Not only that, but it will have a direct impact on military members now and in their future
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Gender Equality & the Women’s Movement SS310 – Exploring the 1960’s: An Interdisciplinary Approach Unit 6 Project March 12, 2013 A Brief Timeline of the Women’s Movement 1920 - 2009 Sources cited on the reference page. In the United States, women are allowed a certain level of luxury in having a large amount of control over the path their lives take. An American woman can be a business owner, a homeowner, a college graduate, a highly paid executive or
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talked about throughout the decades is the pay gap between men and women. The pay gap began in the past and has continued to be a consistent problem throughout time. The issue of pay equity has been mentioned in multiple speeches in order to sway the public’s opinion on whether or not policy changes need to be made in workplaces across the country. As big as the publicity surrounding the pay gap between men and women is, researchers have found that the gender pay gap is not as wide as some people
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Week Three Team “C” Business Equal Pay Paper RES/351 October 12, 2013 Instructor: Fredrick Ohanesian Business Equal Pay Paper Many years in the pass, it has always been known that the pay scales or opportunity for men and women have been unequal in favor of men. There have been many reasons for the indifferences but none of them have been proven to be true. It is only now that it has become an issue for business due to the government regulations have now made it an ethical issue that has to
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