Some Reserve Pay questions

[future_soldier]

Hey guys,

I‘m currently in Grade 12 and I was thinking of going ROTP for the next 4 years of my life but I changed my mind and I decided to go to university and do reserves and then make up my mind later on. Now I‘m going to be joining as an Infantry officer, how much can I expect to make monthly at the beginning? (obviously just a rough estimate will do)

 

[Illucigen]

I wouldve taken ROTP, if you were offered it. But thats just me

 

[kurokaze]

Are you going DEO? Last I checked the pay was
roughly $80/day, $40/half day for OCdt.

 

[GGHG_Cadet]

Check the Recruiting Archives as it has already been mentioned their I believe.

 

[SpinDoc]

Count on once a week-night (half day pay) every week from Sept until June for regular parading. For weekend courses it varies roughly around every other weekend for the entire weekend. Keep in mind there are deductions for the mess (amount varies from place to place).

There is usually at least 1x weekend exercise per month for a unit but until you are a Pte(B) -- which means private basic (above recruit) or equivalent officer rating, you are probably not allowed to go on exercise... might be different with other units.

 

[sirex]

what sort of pay do you get in the reserves?

 

[Lost_Warrior]

You get free hockey tickets.  Sometimes we're lucky and get actual money.


On a serious note, your paycheck depends on rank.

 

[Lost_Warrior]

http://www.recruiting.forces.gc.ca/media/pdf/other/PrimaryReservePay.pdf

Consult that for more information.

 

[sirex]

http://www.recruiting.forces.gc.ca/media/pdf/other/PrimaryReservePay.pdf

Consult that for more information.

thanks

 

[Baloo]

You get free hockey tickets.  Sometimes we're lucky and get actual money.

Hockey tickets? Why was I not informed? All I seem to be given is an obscurely tiny sum of money every so often.

I think it is a joke. I keep half expecting the pay clerks to come up to me one day and say, "Hah, we're just kidding you buddy." and hand over a few thousand more.  ;D

But seriously, what tickets? Juniors? Professional?  ???

 

[Dogboy]

OK I know that Ill be getting $77 bucks a day start wage in the reserves
but when i go off to BMQ this summer (hopefully )
what will I be making a week or so
just so i can budget for my wife at home this summer (it would suck if my Holiday fund goes to rent and bills well I'm gone.
so what are expenses and such and do i get paid for every day I'm gone or what?

 

[infamous_p]

what sort of pay do you get in the reserves?

start off at $71.83 as a Private(R) per day (6 hours or more).

what do people not understand about the concept of a search?

 

[the 48th regulator]

frig all we got was an onion and two buns of stale bread.

That was after we walked to the armouries from Orangeville in the snow, barefoot.  As they kept our uniforms there...

But I have to admit, we did get seventeen and change for a half day, and at the end of an odd weekend parade, or a a summer ex (like ONGUARD '90) you would get a lump sum in cold hard cash!! and a blue Trojan condom to boot!!! And I am am being dead serious on that

dileas

tess

 

[infamous_p]

actually, sirex, i was just kidding.

we do not get paid. serving your country is purely volunteer. many people think we get paid in the military, but secretly we do not. in fact, we actually have to pay the country "military service fee" individually, if we want to serve. we each have to pay the fee of 18 dollars a day, if we work anything over 6 hours. considering the immense satisfaction and feelings of accomplishment one gets from serving his or her country, many of us consider this to be quite a sweet deal.

 

[chrisf]

frig all we got was an onion and two buns of stale bread.

You got bread???

 

[Dogboy]

OK seriously
enough of the "it was up hill both ways threw snow in my day" stuff
its a serous question
what are our expenses and such
and are you only payed at the end of training or a ex. or is it monthly or every 2 weeks

 

[Trinity]

paid on the 15th and last day of the month


decent pay.. someone will post the pay scales I assume
cause i'm not that geeky to have them handy.. and
someone here surely is..    ;D

 

[the 48th regulator]

pfft

With that attitude, I have the right mind to wait every two weeks and take your lunch money....

The good thing, is it goes into your bank account (direct deposit), one of the first employers I haves seen do it in my years.

Obvious income taxes get taken off. As for the pay scale, they are posted on the DND website, can't seem to find the link right now, but should be easy to find.

Other than that, it is all yours.   Our Sgt's Mess did however, after our authorization, deducted a fee from our monthly pay to cover our mess dues.   So you may also want to consider that deduction as well.

dileas

tess

 

[Island Ryhno]

Well down here on the rock it used to be you got paid in fish, but then Joey came along and started handing out rubber boats, once that went down the drain it was back to fish (bonus was Blackhorse) Then good old Mr Peckford got us around to using cucumbers, but that Sprung a leak, so it was back to fish. Now the fish is all gone and the crab is all blocked off and the oil is about to be smitten by rockets from outerspace, we can't get any hockey tickets until next year, cause the Marlies are gone (oops, I mean Leafs) and we'll get screwed by them tix next year cause there ain't no Sydney to watch, pfft, I expect at this rate all I'll be getting is a Pogey cheque and some hard tack, I can wash it down and Screech 

 

[Dogboy]

the 1 and the 15 cool thanks
I know the pay scale iv seen it at the top of this thread
but i needid to know how often you get paid
because i cant fine info on how often you get payed
thanks