Pressed by House panel Chairman Don Bacon to identify the top two quality-of-life issues facing their services, all the enlisted leaders agreed that pay and housing are the most pressing concerns.

The increase in wages is a key part of Mr. Carney’s ambitious promise to raise Canada’s military spending to NATO’s minimum ...

For an E-2 with two years of military service, that increase will mean about $5,000 in extra pay next year. For an E-4 with four years of military service, it’s almost $7,500 more in salary.

The 4.5% pay raise for all troops next year is below the 5.2% boost military families saw at the start of 2024, but marks the third consecutive year of salary hikes over 4%.

Average time in service for Air Force members, for example, as they advanced to pay grades E-6 or E-7 in 2005 was about four years faster than in 2000 (see chart at bottom of story).

Reforms to junior enlisted pay will be among the Senate Armed Services Committee's considerations when it debates its annual defense policy bill in the coming months, the committee's chairman said ...

A final decision by Congress on extra pay boosts for junior enlisted troops in 2025 isn’t likely to come until after the November elections, a key Senate lawmaker said Monday. Senate Armed ...

Junior enlisted pay will be a top focus of a new House Armed Services panel that plans to begin public work in July. (Senior Airman Matthew Angulo/Air Force) In the last two weeks, House lawmakers ...