Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-10
STATEMENT
SALARIES PAID IN ARMY
NHENOFFICERS AND MEN GO ON
FOREIGN SERVICE EACH GETS
AN ADVANCE OF 20 PER CENT IN
NOTIFY STIPEND.

the man goes into foreign service.
Following is the domestic pay re,
ceived by the regular army, national
guard and reserve Office.
now in service and to be received by
the personnel of the conscript armies
being raised:
Buglers and second class privates,
$33 a month"; first class priyates,
$3.50 a month; artilley, calvary and
corporals, saddlers, infantry,
cavalry, field artilley and medical de-
partment mechanics, fariers and
$4,000 a month.
Engineer, ordinance, signal corps,
quartermaster's corps and medical
department corporal, coast artillery
mechanics, field artillery chief me-
chanics, third class musicians of the
infantry, cavalry, artilley and
engineers, $4,000 a month
Artillery, cavalry and infantry ser
geants; field artilley cavalry and in
fantry stable sergeants, artilley, cav
airy and infantry supply sergeants,
artillery cayaly and infantry mess
sergeants, cooks, horseshoers, radio
sergeants, fremen, band corporals,
second class musicians of the cavtlry,
artillery, infantry and engineers and
third class musicians of the military
academy, $44 a month
Engineer ordinance, signal corps,
quartermasters corps and medical re-
partment sergeants, stable sergeants of
the engineers, supply segeants of the
engineers, mess sergeants of the
trician sergeants of the second cless,
band sergeants, first class mucicians of
and second class mucicians
of the military academy, S51.00 a
month
Battalion sergeant majors of the
field artillery and infantry, spadron
sergeant majors, sergeant majors of
the junior grade, master gunners,
buglers, assistant band lead
ers, $500 a month.
Regimental majors, regimental sup
ply sergeants, sergeant maioNs Of the
senior grade, quartermastcr SER
geants of the quartermaster's corLs,
ordinance sergeants, first sergeants,
battalion sergeant majors Of the
engineers, battalion supply sergents OF
the engineers, electrician sergeaats OF
the first class, first class sergeants
Of the quartermaster's corps, engineers
and signal corps, assistant engineers
and first class musicians of the mill
tary academy, $4,000 month
First class sergeants of the medical
field musician sergeants of
the military academy, $66. Hos pital
sergeants, master engineers of the
junior grade and engineers, $84.0O
Quartermaster sergeants of the
senior grade of the quarterme ster's
corps, band leaders, master signal
master electricians,
master engineers of the senior grade,
master hospital sergeants, band SER
geants and assistant band leaders of
the military academy, $4,000
This pay is for first enlistments.
Il increases with each enlistment in
the regular army. ecause of special
qualifications and service, certain men
draw pay, or bonuses, beyond the
regular enlistment pay, as follows:
Mess sergeants, $500; ctsemate cleo
Lricians. 5000; first class observers,
5000; plotters, $500; Coxswains, So;
chief planters, chief leaders, second
class observers, gun commanders and
gun pointers, $500 each; eurgical as
5istants, expert first class gunners r.
A., and expert rifemen, $500 each;
private first class nurses, sharpshoot-
ers and first class gunners, $500 each;
second class gunners, marksmen, dis
1ensary assistants and holders of the
certificate of merit, $500 each.
Enlisted men get all clothing and
equipment free.
Officers, in addition to fixed allow
lnces for quarters, heat and light, re-
,eiive the following sums yearly,
With provision for increase every five
ears for all ranks below brigadier
general in the regular army:
Second lieutenants, $1,700 first
$4,000; captains, $4,000;
majors, $4,000; lieutenant co'onels,
g, 800; colonies, $4,000; brigadier
GENERALS, $4,000; major generals,
s 900 and lieutenant generals, $1,000. |