Title: How Much Do You Get Paid for Each Rank in the Marine Corps? | Work - Chron.com
Headings: How Much Do You Get Paid for Each Rank in the Marine Corps?
How Much Do You Get Paid for Each Rank in the Marine Corps?
The Basic Pay Scales for Marines in 2018
What Makes the Marines Different

Content: Thereafter, a soldier can receive limited pay raises within that rank based on length of service. Further pay raises depend on promotion to the next level. Elite troops or troops with special, often dangerous missions receive special duty and hazardous duty pay rates that can increase a soldier's income substantially, but hazardous duty pay for the same job – bomb disposal, for example – sometimes differs substantially from one service branch to another. While it could be argued that the Marine Corps' mission is more hazardous by nature than the missions of other service branches, Marines receive the same basic pay and as the same incremental increases for combat pay as service members of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard. The Basic Pay Scales for Marines in 2018
Enlisted marines entering the service at the lowest rank, E-1 (Private) receive $1,514 per month for the first four months of service and thereafter $1,638 per month. The following are pay scales for Marines with less than three years of service at the given rank, beginning with soldiers at rank E-2. E-2, Private First Class $1,836
E-3 Lance Corporal $1,931
E-4 Corporal $2,139
E-5 Sergeant $2,333
E-6 Staff Sergeant $2,546
E-7 Gunnery Sergeant $2.944
E-8 Master Sergeant $4,235
E-9 Master Gunnery Sergeant $5,173
W-1 Warrant Officer 1 $3,038
W-2 Chief Warrant Officer 2 $3,461
W-3 Chief Warrant Officer 3, $3,911
W-4 Chief Warrant Officer 4 $4,282
W-5 Chief Warrant Officer 5 $7,615
0-one second Lieutenant $3,108
0-2 First Lieutenant $3,580
0-3 Captain $4,144
0-5 Lieutenant Colonel $5,460
0-7 Brigadier General $8,641
0-8 Major General $10,399
0-9 Lieutenant General $14,696
0-10 General $15,800
Marine Corps Promotion Practices
The Marine Corps' promotion protocols are an interesting and somewhat complicated mix of promotion for length of service and promotion for merit. The Marine Corps gives only one pay raise for soldiers serving at the two lowest ranks. E-1's, Privates receive an automatic promotion after four months of service, but no further pay increases at that rank. A pay raise accompanies promotion to E-2 (Private First Class), but without further pay raises at E-2.