Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[boredtoon]

"We are changing the rules, mess dress, and patrol dress will now be provided to CAF members free of charge" calling it now

-This initiative is brought to you by the Council of Honourary Colonels


Joking aside, I don't think it will be anything related to pay. A couple months ago the CDS stated that details on the pay raise weren't coming until the fall. I think the announcement will be that the government is going to exercise options on some contracts and purchase more airframes.

 

[Underway]

-This initiative is brought to you by the Council of Honourary Colonels


Joking aside, I don't think it will be anything related to pay. A couple months ago the CDS stated that details on the pay raise weren't coming until the fall. I think the announcement will be that the government is going to exercise options on some contracts and purchase more airframes.

There were at least three contracts awarded this week for UAS for the RCN/sales to Europe, Quantum computing and some other things I can't remember. Global news had a report that the RCAF is recommending going forward with the full F35 purchase.

Dunno what it could be.

 

[Remius]

There were at least three contracts awarded this week for UAS for the RCN/sales to Europe, Quantum computing and some other things I can't remember. Global news had a report that the RCAF is recommending going forward with the full F35 purchase.

Dunno what it could be.

Army ball caps.

 

[dapaterson]

Army ball caps.

Can you imagine the drawn out bickering about colours, badge placement, and where they can and cannot be worn?

 

[Furniture]

Can you imagine the drawn out bickering about colours, badge placement, and where they can and cannot be worn?

And the key question, can you wear gloves with a ball cap?

 

[Kilted]

Here is the link to watch it:

 

[Kilted]

So are we getting a 13% raise on our full pay, or is it just 13% on the military factor?

 

[brihard]

So are we getting a 13% raise on our full pay, or is it just 13% on the military factor?

Looks like a raise of 8/13/20% on the bottom line.

Instructor allowance, DOMOPS allowance, changes from monthly to daily LDA/SDA, major increases to posting allowance, IR, and a lump sum annual service pay based on years of service.

This is a pretty ‘holy shit!’ announcement.

EDIT: details here: CAF Pay Raise: Canada to improve compensation for CAF

 

[Kilted]

Is CLDA going to be effected by this as well?

 

[Kilted]

Looks like a raise of 8/13/20% on the bottom line.

Instructor allowance, DOMOPS allowance, changes from monthly to daily LDA/SDA, major increases to posting allowance, IR, and a lump sum annual service pay based on years of service.

This is a pretty ‘holy shit!’ announcement.

EDIT: details here: CAF Pay Raise: Canada to improve compensation for CAF

Well, they promised us 20% and they are giving us 13%.

 

[Remius]

Looks like a raise of 8/13/20% on the bottom line.

Instructor allowance, DOMOPS allowance, changes from monthly to daily LDA/SDA, major increases to posting allowance, IR, and a lump sum annual service pay based on years of service.

This is a pretty ‘holy shit!’ announcement.

EDIT: details here: CAF Pay Raise: Canada to improve compensation for CAF

Devil will be in the details but it looks good so far.

 

[Maxman1]

Is CLDA going to be effected by this as well?

Looks like it will change to a flat $100 per day the member is in the field or at sea.

 

[Stoker]

 

[brihard]

Well, they promised us 20% and they are giving us 13%.

Look at the service pay plus the enhanced now-daily allowances for land/sea duty, DOMOPS, arctic ops, and instructing, plus the enhanced relocation allowance. I’d say this is really, really good, and a chunk of it is targeted at those actually doing the field/deployed/instructional work. Someone working a comfy and safe office job where they don’t deploy or sail or go to the field will still get a mostly 13% increase, which is pretty good.

Is CLDA going to be effected by this as well?

Looks like all LDA will be CLDA, and will be a flat daily rate of $100. If you don’t go to the field or sea, you don’t get LDA or SDA.

How a day in the field or at sea is defined will be a key detail.

 

[CountDC]

backdated to 1 Apr 2025.

8% for Col and above
20% for new Ptes
13% for the rest.

Calculated mine and my yearly income goes down as I lose CFHD.

Be interesting to see the fine details of the military service benefit for time in.

Posting allowance will be based on number of cost move postings you have done.

I like the domops benefit.

targeted trades will also get more.

 

[markppcli]

Is CLDA going to be effected by this as well?

CLDA is dead. All LDA will be a daily rate of 100.

Well, they promised us 20% and they are giving us 13%.

So like for me I’ll lose the 728 ( 8736 annually) for LDA, but make and additional 946 ( 11359) base pay. Critically LDA as an allowance isn’t pensionable but pay is. I’ll also get that 5k annual allowance. Makes a total benefit of around 16000, 20 percent would be 17000 and change. I’m also now going to get more money on Lentus, the field, if I teach, and my posting benefit tripled. Overall I’m above it.


To ease confusion here’s the actual release with details.

Improvements to Compensation and Benefits for the Canadian Armed Forces - Canada.ca

The Government of Canada today announced improvements to compensation and benefits for Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members. These initiatives will be rolled out over the next 12 months.

www.canada.ca

 

[Czech_pivo]

Happy to be hearing that it sounds like you all are being taken care of.

 

[MilEME09]

$45 a day for domops, and the instructor compensation is a great measure

 

[CountDC]

ok, now to be the downer.

As the increase is backdate and CFHD is linked to pay rates are they going to recover it from all those that are now losing it.

For example my pay increase means I no longer get CFHD. As the increase is backdated that means that technically as of 1 Apr I get the higher pay level but would no longer be entitled to the CFHD I received. I could potentially owe more than I will be getting once all the calculations are made including deductions for taxes, ei, pensions, etc.

 

[Underway]

So I did the math for myself. Including the +21 years bonus ($6000) it works out to about an 18.4% pay increase. As I don't get CFHD where I'm at I can't complain.

I can see the cases where people are going to be worse for some, losing your SDA when posted to a position that doesn't go to sea (ship alongside for example), but on a ship that is sailing will be a lot more money over the year. The recalculation of CFHD should just be a wash for most folks as it was organized to scale with pay already. We have a recent example of a 12% pay increase to look at for what that will do for CFHD. In many places this amount of money will push you over the CFHD max.