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.

Official pay charts for 2016 have been released. The 2016 National Defense Authorization Act included a 1.3 percent increase in military pay for 2016. However, the law essentially froze the pay ...

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 ...