“As I recall, you can’t reach a $100,000 pay check until you get promoted to general,”
Officers do quite a bit better than that a lot sooner. I don’t begrudge anyone their pay. It’s the corruption that bothers me. It’s the political self-dealing that bugs me.
It is, quite literally the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about.
Re: As I recall, you can’t reach a $100,000 pay check until you get promoted to general.
Thanks for the update.
I see that a L.C. now tops out at $108,000.
And, a full colonel starts around $120,000.
I have a college friend who retired about 10 years ago as a full colonel with 30 years of service (Air Force - Intelligence).
As I recall, his pay ceiling was under $100,000.
I also recall, perhaps mistakenly, that officers used to be paid for the length of time at their grade, not their length of service.