This post is about why there is not a military retirement pay chart, and what you can do about it. I get a LOT of email from people asking me to link to the military retirement pay chart.

Military service members in the junior enlisted ranks received a 14.5% raise in 2025. Most other service members got a 4.5% pay bump. Some senior officers received smaller percentages.

The Army and DFAS agreed to combine them to obtain efficiencies, and when DFAS later consolidated most accounting functions off installations, the military pay support was retained at installation ...

Incorrect leave balances were posted due to a DFAS system change to implement a law that reduces the special leave accrual cap.

In the latest installment of Ask Bob, a reader asked the following question: Question: I am trying to fill in the form for buying back my military time. I don’t know what my pay was back then. How can ...

The Navy announced Friday that DFAS has agreed to a three-month pause in any debt collection for the 1,283 retirees who have been overpaid. That pause aims to give impacted retirees the time to ...

As many as 39,000 disabled military retirees have been left out of the VA Retro Pay program by mistake, say officials at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service who are calculating the amount ...

Junior enlisted service members will soon see a significant boost in their pay as the Pentagon rolls out a targeted raise aimed at improving quality of life for the military’s lowest-paid ranks.

The military pay chart varies greatly when it comes to how much is being paid to service members based on their rank and length of service. Here is a list of how much troops can earn while on ...

The recent ruling in the Supreme Court case Howell v. Howell shines a light on the confusing issue of retired and disability pay. The plaintiff, former Airman John Howell, believed he didn't have ...