Soldier's are paid Horrible!?

Question

All Enlisted Military are under paid. For the time you guys spend at work 5:00am to 7:00pm on a good day. No civilian can say that the military are paid enough! When they deploy the pay will only go up about a 1,000 more a month. Who in their right mind can say that $500 a paycheck is enough for what they have to go through. I am so tired of hearing people say that they are paid well. Yes, you do get a little extra money for food and housing, but of you think about it if a soldier didn't get that they would make the same amount as a fast food worker. Lets not even talk about if a soldier is killed in combat. The 9/11 family members got 1.3 million dollars! WTF Shouldn't a soldier's family get the same????

Answer 1

Come on, who would ever pay opressive murderers more than minimum wage

Answer 2

I dont agree with one word you just said..

The problem is that today you have many who enlist for the money and not for the honor of serving their country..

You look at it as a job, I looked at it as a privilege to serve and any money was an extra for me.

and I love those hours you give of 500am to 700 pm????

I spent my time in the military defending America and not working at some job..

Answer 3

Well it's a volunteer job. It's not necessarily for the money as it is defending your country. Money is nice but it's more about using the money for college.

Answer 4

my answer is;

Yes they Are.

It is a 24/7/52/3+years job. That most are unwilling to do.

Free Education as high as they want to go for them and their family along with Health Care for Life. Again for them, their spouse and children. Is the very least those that Defend America and her people (us) Deserve.

I Hope my answer helps (them).

Answer 5

whats the question?

Answer 6

You don't want a Military that's in it for the money.

Answer 7

I agree...I will say this though, I do pay less for rent because of the benefits of military, and I love asking for military discounts, I do save some money, but we don't get nearly enough, I agree.

Answer 8

I would not agree with that , my son is an enlisted man on an Australian Navy submarine and earns around $77,000 per annum ($67,000 $US), gets his medical , housing , allowances, dentistry and uniforms supplied. He also gets cheap mortgage rates, cheap loan rates and has 10% superannuation paid on top.

he is better off than I am and he is only 22 y.o..

Answer 9

The trick is to pillage and plunder to make up the difference.

Answer 10

i agree! i am a marine wife and for my husbands 2 years in he is only making 799 each paycheck that comes 2 times a month. he does get a clothing allowance but that is once a year and its only 300 dollars, that doesnt cover all his cammies and boots and new dress blues, all of those things are EXPENSIVE!  when we did the math he only gets like 12 cents an hour! and he goes to work for 5 days straight and does not come home and then maybe gets 3 days off to spend time with me! and once your married you get NO food allowance, we do get a housing allowance if you decide to move off base but its only what they think is necessary, we get 954 and the average apartment is around 700, now you think well we get to keep the rest, wrong, we dont bank that much off of it maybe like 20 bucks!

enough with the ranting, anyone else have more to say? email me!  

Answer 11

lol i agree we should be paid more...my husbnad does work those hours you have posted and lately its been more like home at 8:30 granted he does have the rank to have to do that....but...i do remember the days of paychecks that were less than 500 each...and that was for him me and our son....there was actually a time when that was true...1990...lol...i think they are paid more now in relation to when he was just starting out..because then...e4 and below were not allowed to live on base...i think alot of people now whine way too d**n much about what you dont have...instead of trying to better themselves...the sad fact is they could be out there flipping those burgers they chose not too..with that choice comes the long hours and the pay...but on the other hand people like us with a child with a medical problem that free insurance would have killed us on the civilian side..there would have been no way our child could have had the care he has received as a result of his dad being active duty...my kids can also say they have lived in a foreign country been to many states....and accept people for being people...not scared of others because they are different than them because they have been exposed to other people and cultures...the thing is that is priceless....as for the death of a soldier...its not something any one ever wishes for but it does happen...and we  just have to honor their memory and realize their job and the reason they did it was because they chose that and loved every minute of it..without them we wouldnt be the nation we are today...

Answer 12

You must not be military.  First of all, an E-1, the lowest rank in the military, makes more than $500 a paycheck, and they already have everything paid for: food, housing, water, electricity, all that c**p.  The only thing they need to spend money on is maybe child support, or phone bills, or car insurance.  But how many E-1's do you see walking around?  Not too many.  I agree us enlisted personnel are underpaid, but I wouldn't consider it horrible.  We also get all kinds of benefits like discounts, bonuses, tuition assistance, retirement pay, paid job training, etc.  The Army actually paid ME to learn how to work on certain aircraft and also turbine engines.  As far as I know, you can't get free training AND get paid to go to that free training anywhere else.  So while I agree the pay isn't great, everything else about being a soldier makes it worthwhile.  At least for me.

Answer 13

you enter the military making $1,500 a month with free housing, free food, uniform allowance, free electric gas and water. reimbursement for collage, i think it is a fairly good pay unlimited payed sick leave i think 2 months paid vacation

Answer 14

umm,my husband is e1(lowest pay rank)

and he makes 1,081 a check,aaand he's not deployed...

which is much more than i was making a fedex a month...and his job too.

we're not freekin milionaires but we're doing better than we were.much better.

Answer 15

The Army is only interested in people who are VOLUNTARILY willing to fight for our country. As you get higher up in rank you can make up to 15,000 a month. Check the pay tables. If everyone who enlisted was able to be RICH everyone would join for four years active duty to save up all their money while the government took care of their food, house, clothes and everything else and it would be a totally different group of people. These soldiers are serious about what they do. That's why our soldiers deserve respect, they aren't doing it for money, they are doing it to serve our country and give their familes and other civilians they freedom they deserve. As I type this my husband is off sacraficing quality time with his family to ensure that you can freely spend time with yours.

Answer 16

I'll give you that they just don't get paid enough for the hours they work and the type of job they do. That being said, there just IS no monetary value.

But we do live very comfortably. My husband had looked into some civilian jobs and has yet to find anything that would allow us to maintain our current lifestyle. Sure, we struggled in the beginning. But everyone struggles at entry level, no matter what the job. With rank and years and service, the pay becomes quite comfortable. Personally, I feel we DO get paid well. BAH alone pays my mortgage, insurance, taxes  and utilities. I have never worried about having a roof over my head or food on the table. My husband earned his bachelor's degree for free. I have never paid a penny for medical care for me or our children.  We are able to pay our bills and have plenty left over. It's all about budgeting.  I can't complain.

In the end, it isn't about the money. My husband serves because he loves his job. If he was in it for the money alone, it wouldn't be worth it. For him (and us as a family), it IS worth it because we believe there is a higher purpose to the job he does.