I can get behind the list above, however I disagree that they get a percentage of the additional skill requirements since those requirements are part of the requirements to get your license or certification. While in the USN my two shore tours was as an instructor for submarine sonar and I went to a school to get my teaching certificate. I did not get any pay increase for being a teacher.

That's one big difference between civvy life and military life. You probably also did not pay for your teaching certificate (if it was a military school or something they funded in a civilian school). Civilians have to pay for that course (and they can cost a LOT - in my line of work $2500 for 2-3 days is not unusual) and they also don't get paid. If it was a few weeks, that's likely over $20K to pickup the certification. People don't do that unless there is a remuneration.

My reserve experience was the interesting payscale the Cdn forces used for infantry reservists in 1987:

Half day: $21

Full day: $42

Now: Half-day is not 4 hours, it is 6 or less hours. Full-day is not 8 hours, it is anything more than 6 hours up to 24 hours.

My mom worked as a university trained nurse in jobs like shift supervisor, director of nursing, stand in for CEO and CFO in a 200 bed hospital, etc. and my paycheck two years out of college with software skills was more than she ever made in any of those jobs (plus better benefits except pension). The civilian world is very different and it is driven by business logic.

If I am qualified to higher levels or in multiple things and I can find a job that benefits from that, either I have one 'composite' job that pays more or two smaller jobs (or a job and an additional stipend) that pays more than any single job would pay.

I should have pulled at that thread too: Civvy street and the service are quite different.

(My godson's day was always good at taking reserve contracts which were very close to regular contracts in that he got away pay, sea pay, some sorts of theater related danger pay, etc and yet had the best aspect of the reserves - without a national emergency or state of war, the military could ask him to go places, but never order.)

May I steal, er I mean, use your qualification outline please?

Tom Rux

I pulled this from memory, but I've wrestled this bear beforehand and was influenced by an article (web? mag?) that started me down the road. I'll look on my older computers and see if I can find the work I did on this already. No sense totally rebuilding the castle from the first brick so to speak.

Tom B

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