The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-01-11
PAYROLL OF MEN
AND OFFICERS AN
lNTRICATESTUDY
Billion Dollars a Year to Meet
Expense on Approximately
Present Basis.
DOLLARS OR FRANCS ABROAD
Enlisted Men Scaled From $50
per Month to a Minimum of
S81 for Senior Grades
DOLLARS OR FRANCS ABROAD

! Washington, Jan. 1.-THE total pa,
or the United States army in Deem
! Der was approximately $7S,SO,S0O, the
committee on public information an
nounced in the second Of It's
series OF statements on the pay of the
army an dnavy and the operation OF
the war risk insurance bureau. This is
at the rate of nearly $1,000, 100000 a
year
The total does not include family al
lOWances or compensation for disa-
bility of soldiers provided for in the
insurance act and paid through the
war risk bureau.
Paying Intricate Task.
The intricate task Of paying the Of
ficers and men Of the army, made
more difficult by the wide expansion
of the past six months, is being salts
faCtorily accomplished" said the COM
mittee's statement ITO prevent fail
ure to meet the monthly compensa-
ton Of every man in the service, no
matter where he may be located, lib
eral sums are furnished the various
disbursing quartermasters in order
promptly to meet the army payrolls
with their extraordinary demands for
funds"
Men serving in France are paid in
French currency or by United States
checks as they may elect, and all SOL
diers are paid at the end of each
month, or as soon thereafter, as pos
sible.
The Enlisted Men.
The base pay Of enlisted men
ranges from the $50 month received
by private on entering the service
to the $S1 per month received by SEN
ior grade quartermaster sergeants of
the quartermaster corps, band lead
ers, master electricians, master engin-
GERS of the senior grade and master
hospital sergeants.
Service pay for enlisted men, includ
ing on-commissioned officers ranging
from So to $24 a month, is allowed foI
continuous re-enlistments, and in the
coast artillery extra pay ranging from
So month to SO month is allowed
men when on special assignments En-
listed men in the signal corps, while |
on duty which requires them to parti !
cipate regularly in airplane flights, ii |
they have the rating of aviation me
chanics, receive so per cent increase |
in their monthly pay.
Foreign Service.
Enlisted men, if serving in a for
eign country, receive 20 per cent in |
crease in pay computed on the base |
pay of active service prevailing priol
to June /, 1917, when an act of con
gress increased for the period of the
war the pay of all enlisted men in
ranging from per cent tC
per cent. Enlisted men on detached
duty where no army quarters are
available are allowed SIS per month
to cover housing expenses and also
allowance for subsistence and
for heat and light.
Officers pay ranges from the
S141.67 initial pay received by second
lieutenants each month to the $4,000
a year for a general Officers of the
rank up to and including colonel re.
ceive an increase of 10 per cent
known as longevity pay for each per-
od of five years service, provided
hat such increase shall not exceed
10 per cent.
Officers Perquisites.
All officers are entitled to be fur
lished public quarters, with fuel and