Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — Army Officers’ Salary $141 Month to $10,000 Year [ARTICLE]

Army Officers’ Salary $141 Month to $10,000 Year

United States army officers are paid according td the rank held by them. A second lieutenant receives $141.67 initial pay a month; first lieutenant, $166.67; captain, $200; major, $250; lieutenant colonel, $291.67; colonel, $333.33, with an increase of 10 per cent known as longevity pay, for each period of five years of service, provided that such increase shall not exceed 40 per cent The pay of a brigadier general is $6,000 a year; major general, $8,000; lieutenant general, $9.000, and a general, SIO,OOO. These officers receive no increase for continuous service. While on foreign service officers receive hn increase of 10 per cent of their base pay and lorn gevity pay. _ _