37 U.S.C. § 203 : US Code - Section 203: Rates

Search 37 U.S.C. § 203 : US Code - Section 203: Rates

(a)(1) The rates of monthly basic pay for members of the
uniformed services within each pay grade are those prescribed in
accordance with section 1009 of this title or as otherwise
prescribed by law.
(2) Notwithstanding the rates of basic pay in effect at any time
as provided by law, the rates of basic pay payable for commissioned
officers in pay grades O-7 through O-10 may not exceed the monthly
equivalent of the rate of pay for level III of the Executive
Schedule, and the rates of basic pay payable for all other officers
and for enlisted members may not exceed the monthly equivalent of
the rate of pay for level V of the Executive Schedule.
(b) While serving as a permanent professor at the United States
Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, or the United
States Air Force Academy or as a member of the permanent
commissioned teaching staff at the United States Coast Guard
Academy, an officer who has over 36 years of service computed under
section 205 of this title is, in addition to the pay and allowances
to which he is otherwise entitled under this title, entitled to
additional pay in the amount of $250 a month. This additional pay
may not be used in the computation of retired pay.
(c) A cadet at the United States Military Academy, the United
States Air Force Academy, or the Coast Guard Academy, or a
midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, is entitled to
monthly cadet pay, or midshipman pay, at the monthly rate equal to
35 percent of the basic pay of a commissioned officer in the pay
grade O-1 with less than two years of service.
(d)(1) The basic pay of a commissioned officer who is in pay
grade O-1, O-2, or O-3 and who is credited with a total of over
four years' service described in paragraph (2) shall be computed in
the same manner as the basic pay of a commissioned officer in the
same pay grade who has been credited with over four years' active
service as an enlisted member.
(2) Service to be taken into account for purposes of computing
basic pay under paragraph (1) is as follows:
(A) Active service as a warrant officer or as a warrant officer
and an enlisted member.
(B) Service as a warrant officer, as an enlisted member, or as
a warrant officer and an enlisted member, for which at least
1,460 points have been credited to the officer for the purposes
of section 12732(a)(2) of title 10.
(e)(1) A student at the United States Military Academy
Preparatory School, the United States Naval Academy Preparatory
School, or the United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School
who was selected to attend the preparatory school from civilian
life is entitled to monthly student pay at the same rate as
provided for cadets and midshipmen under subsection (c).
(2) A student at a preparatory school referred to in paragraph
(1) who, at the time of the student's selection to attend the
preparatory school, was an enlisted member of the uniformed
services shall receive monthly basic pay at the rate prescribed for
the student's pay grade and years of service as an enlisted member
or at the rate provided for cadets and midshipmen under subsection
(c), whichever is greater.
(3) The monthly student pay of a student described in paragraph
(1) shall be treated for purposes of the accrual charge for the
Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund established under
section 1461 of title 10 in the same manner as monthly cadet pay or
midshipman pay under subsection (c).