DISTINCTIONS IN PAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 28, 4 February 1943, Page 1

DISTINCTIONS IN PAY

POSITION OF MEMBERS OF REGGULAR FORCES The recent pay increases and the extensions in leave privileges granted to the Territorial Force and New Zealand Temporary Staff did not apply to the Regular Force, members of which are paid an annual rate subject to income tax and superannuation but not national .and social security taxes. The rates for the Territorial Force and Temporary Staff are free of tax and members enjoy leave privileges and free travel warrants which are not given the Regular Force. When the net pay rates of the Regular Force and the other two branches are compared, the regulars are in an anomalous position for the duration of the war. By comparison, the Navy and Air Force rates for regular personnel and duration service are the same, the distinct'on being that the regulars, while on s< rvice in New Zealand, pay income lax and superannuation. More fortunate among the war period personnel are civil servants whose superannuation is kept up while they are serving with the forces. Marr ed Regular Force officers without children get no domestic allowance; counterparts in the Territorial Force or Temporary Staff get a 24s 61 a week separation allowance paid their wives. Regular Force officers with children get a domestic allowance of 17s 6d a week; the corresponding payments In the other Territorial Force and Temporary Staff are 21s a week wife separation allowanc>, 17s 6d a week domestic allowance and 10s 6d a week for each child undec 16. Thus, allowances to an officer ir. the two last-named classes would be £2 19s 6d a week against 17s 6d for the Regular Force officer in the same domestic position. Leave privileges for the Territorial Force are seven days for two months' service, with subsistence allowance ani free travelling warrants and for tho Temporary Staff. 28 days a year, subsistence, and up to three travelling warrants (in camp) and 21 days and two warrants (not in camp). No Travel Warrants. Comsponding Regular Force privileges are up to 28 days’ annual leave, accor ding to rank and service, but no travel warrants. In the case of higher ranks in the Regilar Force the income tax more than cancels the benefit of the £45 12s 6d (year) domestic allowance for . those with one child or more and in the lower commissioned ranks, it absorbs part or the benefit. Superannuation tr ust also be paid, though this m the nature of an Investment.

The Regular Force are paid an annual re te, rising annually to reach the maximum in from two to seven years, according to the particular rank.

Taking the Regular Force officer with a wite and two children under 16, in his first year in the rank mentioned, this is how he compares with ms '1 erritorial Force or Temporary Staff counterpart. From the former’s rate income tax (and superannuation, at 5 per cent.) have still to be deducted; the last-named two rates are tax free. In camp and at home rates are given respectively, in parentheses, for tne Territorial Force and Temporary Staff, there being no difference in these fot the Regular Force:— Brigadier, £945 12s 6d (£lOO3 15s, £lO5B 10s); colonel, £Bl5 12s 6d (£930 £985); lieut.-colonel, £7lO 12s 6d (£793 17s 6d, £B4B 12s 6d); major, £585 12s 6d (£657, £7ll 15s); captain, £450 12s 6d (£538 7s 6d, £593 2s 6d); lieqtenant from W.O. or n.c.o. ranks, £445 12s 6d; lieutenant, commissioned after four years’ cadet course. £320 12s 6a (£474 10s 6d, £529 ss); married W.O. 1, £419 12s 6d (£4Ol 10s, £456 ss).' '

. Highest annual rates for the Regular Force are: Major-General, £l2OO aet.ond year); brigadier, £lO5O (third year;; colonel, £9OO (third year); lieutenant-colonel, £765 (fifth year); major, £640 (six year); captain, £515 (seventh year); captain-quartermas-ter, £465 (fourth year); lieutenant, alter tour years’ cadet course, £3Bt> (sixlh year); same after three years’ course, £385 (seventh year); married W.O. 1. £383 5s (fourth year). These are all taxable, but exclusive of the 2s 6d daily domestic allowance where men are married with one child or more.