Editor's note: The rates of pay in the pay calculator are effective Jan. 1, 2025, and don't include the additional raise service members in the E-1 to E-4 pay grades are due to receive in April.

Editor's note: The rates of pay ... military housing is not provided, depending on geographic duty location and other factors. The next box, COLA (CONUS), stands for Continental United States ...

The following three charts show how U.S. overseas operations have been shrinking ... only $84 billion went to active-duty military pay. Retired military pay, which does not directly increase ...