PAY INCREASES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 4

PAY INCREASES

WOMEN IN SERVICES

EXTRA SIXPENCE A DAY

Regulations have been approved ,by the War Cabinet which increase the rates of pay for the non-com-missioned ranks , in the women's auxiliary services of the Navy, Army, and Air Force. Qualified and unqualified personnel are to receive an extra 6d a day and i where quarters and rations arc provided no deduction is to be made from pay. •■ , Previously. Is Id a day or 7s 6d a week was deducted from the pay of women living in barracks. The new rates in these cases therefore represent an increase of ls 7d a day or lis a week. The subsistence allowance, payable if quarters and rations are. not provided, is also to be increased from 2s 6d to 3s a day. The annual salary of the chief officer of the W.R.N.S. is fixed at £320, and that of the chief commander of the W.A.A.C. and the wing officer of the W.A.A.F. at £350 each. A first officer in the W.R.N.S. is to receive an annual salary of £275, and the correspondinig ranks in the other two services, that of senior commander and squadron officer are to be paid £290 each These are consolidated rates of pay and no allowances will be payable to these officers except travelling allowances on duty. DAILY RATES OF PAY. The daily rates of pay for the corresponding ranks in the W.R.N.S., W.A.A.C. and W.A.A.F. respectively are as follows:—Second officer, junior commander, flight officer. 10s 6d; third officer, subaltern, section Officer, 9s 6d; fourth officer, second subaltern,: assistant section officer, 8s 6d; chief petty officer, senior leader, under .officer, 8s qualified, 7s 6d unqualified. The followinig scale for the remaining ranks represents an increase of sixpence a day in each case, both for qualified and unqualified personnel:— Chief petty officer (second class), staff sergeant, senior sergeant, 7s 6d qualified, 7s unqualified; petty officer Wren, sergeant, sergeant. 75.. 6s 6d; leading Wren, corporal, corporal, 6s 6d. 6s; Wren, lance corporal, W.A.L., 6s, 5s 6d; probationary Wren, private, W.A.I. 5s 6d, ss. ' If quarters are not provided but one or more meals a day are provided during duty Is a meal is to be deducted whether 'or not the meals are actually taken. A deduction of 3s a day is to be made from the pay of officers holding salaried appointments when they are provided with; rations and | quarters. OTHER CONDITIONS. Uniforms are free, but no under- | clothing is provided. Uniforms and I other articles on issue are to be re- : placed after fair wear and tear by the Navy, Army, and Air Departments. A mufti allowance of £7 10s will be paid to all ranks on discharge oion being placed on indefinite leave without pay provided they have served continuously on full-time paid service for not less than twelve months. Leave may be granted up to 18 days a year, exclusive of Sundays or statutory holidays. Leave is to be considered a privilege and not an entitlement and is to be granted subject to the exigencies of the service. The daily subsistence allowance of 3s will be paid to personnel when absent from their place of duty during annual leave. No subsistence allowance will be paid to personnel when absent on weekend leave or leave of less than 48 hours. ' , j Free travelling warrants by rail or steamer, and also by road service where no other means of transport are available may be issued to personnel for the purpose of proceeding on. leave from their place of duty to home. Not more than three free warrants are to be issued to any one member annually.