Since some people want to
complain about their $8.75/ hour, here's a military E-4 (specialist) pay stub
for the month. $2122.80 for one month of service (base pay). Disregard the
other amounts, because the majority of e-4's don't get paid them.
Subtract the deductions (which
EVERYONE pays no matter where you work, we just have the privelege of paying
out the ass) and you get 1709.19. Divide this amnt by 4 to get one week's pay,
you get 427.30. We get up and do PT starting at 6:30 a.m. and we're on the clock
until 5:00 p.m. do the math, that's 10.5 hours. 10.5 x 5 = 52.5.
Divide the amount after
deductions and you get $8.139.. $8.14 an hour, and you never see any soldier
petitioning to increase our pay. Of course, that's the amount after deductions
so that's not truly our hourly wage but that's what we SEE out of it. When was
the last time Sally McBurgerflipper slept in a field for a month at a time?
Deployed to a combat zone?
Laid his/her life down simply
for the freedom of millions of men and women he/she had never met? Our NORMAL
duty day is more than full time, not including the times we work until 9, 10 at
night or go to the field for a month at a time or deploy for a year at a time.
I
can honestly say, these men and women I have
had the privelege to serve beside for these past few years are among the most
humble group of employees I've ever met. And for that... I will FOREVER be a
proud veteran of the world's finest Military.
Credit: Paul Rader
Credit: Paul Rader
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