My Thoughts On The Armed Forces Pay Review Body 2023
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- My Thoughts On The Armed Forces Pay Review Body 2023
In July the Armed Forces Pay Review Body’s recommendations were finally released and were all accepted by the Government. That saw a pay award for the Armed Forces of 5% and a consolidate increase to salaries of £1,000. This saw the most junior soldiers receive an overall pay award of 9.7% and senior officers received up to a 5.8% increase.
Amongst other recommendations, compensatory allowances saw an increase of 5.8%, recruitment and retention payments also increased by 5.8% and single living accommodation increased by 4.5% which is in line the actual rental CPI data.
For Service Families Accommodation, an increase of 4.5% was recommended for the rental charge, the furniture charge and garages/car ports. However, the Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace announced that these would not take place due to the poor level that the FDIS contract has enabled. All charges for SFA have been frozen for this financial year.
In this video I set out to dispel some of the confusion behind what the £1,000 consolidated uplift meant, the math behind some of the charge increases and I share my thoughts on perhaps a bit of a controversial topic.
The AFPRB is an annual independent review of pay in the Armed Forces. The report is meant to come out in time for April but for the last couple years it has been delayed. Therefore, all recommendations will be backdated to April and all serving soldiers will see a large backpay in August.
Sentiment for this years pay award has been overall, quite positive. Many people are surprised and happy with the announcement. Are you? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Links:
How Much Do We Get Paid Hourly - • British Army: What Is ...
AFPRB Document - assets.publishing.service.gov...
Deano’s Tweet - / 1679707913798189056
BBC Article on RAF - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66060490
Haythornthwaite Review - assets.publishing.service.gov...
Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:15 What is the Armed Forces Pay Review Body?
1:55 The Pay Award - Background
4:49 What is the difference between Consolidated and Non-Consolidated Pay?
5:17 The Armed Forces Pay Award
5:44 Pay Award Example
6:47 Back Payment of Award in August
7:00 The effect of promotions and increment level rises
7:28 Pay Tables by Deano
8:37 What does pro-rata mean? (reservists)
9:01 Final thoughts on the pay award
10:43 Recruitment and Retention Payment (RRP)
11:54 Reservists Training Bounty
12:29 Compensatory Allowances
13:15 How much will this all cost?
14:02 X-Factor
15:36 SFA Accommodation Charge
16:38 SFA Furniture Charge
17:00 Garage and Carports Charge
17:25 SLA Accommodation Charge
18:00 Daily Food Charge
18:39 Comparison with pay award and accommodation increase
20:15 I don’t agree with this
26:45 Final Thoughts
27:48 Outro
DISCLAIMER:
The views and opinions expressed in this video are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the British Army or the Ministry of Defence.
I am not a professional financial advisor and this video is not financial advice. Please do your own research before making any decisions with your money and seek professional financial advice if need be.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:15 What is the Armed Forces Pay Review Body?
1:55 The Pay Award - Background
4:49 What is the difference between Consolidated and Non-Consolidated Pay?
5:17 The Armed Forces Pay Award
5:44 Pay Award Example
6:47 Back Payment of Award in August
7:00 The effect of promotions and increment level rises
7:28 Pay Tables by Deano
8:37 What does pro-rata mean? (reservists)
9:01 Final thoughts on the pay award
10:43 Recruitment and Retention Payment (RRP)
11:54 Reservists Training Bounty
12:29 Compensatory Allowances
13:15 How much will this all cost?
14:02 X-Factor
15:36 SFA Accommodation Charge
16:38 SFA Furniture Charge
17:00 Garage and Carports Charge
17:25 SLA Accommodation Charge
18:00 Daily Food Charge
18:39 Comparison with pay award and accommodation increase
20:15 I don’t agree with this
26:45 Final Thoughts
27:48 Outro
Juat started watching your video's. Have recommended them to others, keep it up.
Cheers, appreciate it
Thank you again, all videos you do are top level
Cheers, glad they are able to help you out
Yep an "independent" pay review.
As we have seen with every other government department calling them "independent" is a massive stretch of the imagination.
Excellent presentation - thanks for breaking it down so well.
No problem, glad it helps
Very useful content as always - keep up the good work
Cheers, appreciate it
Good review and break down, Savvy Squaddie. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the kind words
Great presentation as usual. 👏
Thanks, appreciate it
As an ex-squaddie this video is very interesting showing what our service personnel get paid and an iSight to what they have pay. When I left my pay was £25 a week and £2.50 for food and accommodation, some of which was good and others ……
Great vid I’ll show to the lads. Could we get a refresh of Added Pension now AA has increased?
I will be doing a video on Added Pension in the future
While I look forward to the August pay statement I can’t help but think of how the Clark’s will still find a way to break my pay statement without so much as an AGAI
Good work mate
Thank you! Cheers!
Absolutely Good info.
But
Whats your thoughts on the Pension updates.
In terms of the McCloud Remedy?
Great video as usual. Discrimination is discrimination. Silly of the government trying to spin it to sound beneficial. Why can’t people just be people instead of the labelling?
Good lad 👍
How many pay review bodies are there? How much are they paid? Who decides how much their pay rises each year? Is there a pay review body for pay review bodies?
It's all quite open on the gov website if you want to learn more about the body, what they do, who sits on it etc.
Another great balanced & informative video, Thank You, hope you don't mind but I share some of your videos to LinkedIn for those social users, keep up the sensible videos
I don't mind at all. Thank you for sharing them. Appreciate the support.
Does LSA get back dated for service SP?!
Yes it will. If you were paid LSA since April, then the increase will be accounted for in your backpay in August.
Thanks for asking this question, I missed this detail 😅
100% agree with your comments on targets. I have been bending the ear of the CofC for years on this (with most agreeing to be fair) but the decisions are made at governmental level with little influence from even divisional level commanders.
Hopefully the other services have learned from the mistakes of the RAF but only time will tell
if the RAF had learned lessons they’d have sacked AVM Byford. They’re not sorry it happened, they’re sorry we found out.
can you make a video of tax claim for the armed forces ?
It is on my list to do
Well they did a u turn on the daily food charge come march.
What are absolute joke. When I was serving in the army based in Woolwich, I would work 70 hour weeks minimum and get around about £1.8-2.4k a month. Plus extras, depending on exercise, or other duties you could get more. Less than 10% increase is disgraceful. In my personal opinion to maintain a well professional force me to pay them well and give them a very good welfare, which the army is currently failing to provide. Military personnel have to live in terrible living conditions, sometimes with no running water or even hot water, mouldy ceilings and flaky paint. Luckily for me Woolwich barracks was basically brand-new at the time I was serving there. And to be honest Private soldiers fresh from phase 2 training should be starting at 35, grand a year after tax salaries minimum. I’m not saying don’t join the military because it is a good life, but the military needs a big change and a complete remodel if it’s going to be a successful fighting force in the future
Squaddies pay £250 for a 3 bed house while civvys pay £1300 rent for similar houses.
The army today dont work 70 hours a week 👍🏼 most personal work 8.30am - 5pm when not on tour
@@GG-eg6knbut the accomodation is falling down full of mould.
@@jacobs3031 open a window and buy a dehumidifier then you numpty.. maybe stop leaving wet towels around? You’re gunna be fucked in civvy street if you can’t look after a property whilst you’re in
@@ryanredmond5559 I was regularly doing a 60 hour week when not on tour!
"that's not how math works" - hahaha nice
Haha cheers dude
Relatively old video, but you’ve completely messed up the concept of ‘positive’ discrimination. ‘Positive’ in this context means to add something. In this case, the RAF’s attempts to add women/lgbtq/ethnic minorities to their workforce by focusing solely on these groups. ‘Negative’ discrimination is putting barriers in place to recruitment of these groups or flat out trying to remove them from the RAF workforce purely because they are female/lgbtq/ethnic minority. The term has absolutely nothing to do with positive/negative emotions or feelings. You need to be aware that by failing to educate yourself on what these terms mean before posting a video of this nature may incite hatred against these groups based on flawed logic. You really should be holding yourself to a higher standard and sourcing accurate definitions and facts, as there are impressionable viewers coming to your channel for information.
Thank you for your commenting and sharing your point of view.
Taken from the Government Website - Positive Action in the Workplace
"Positive Discrimination is defined as: the practice or policy of favouring individuals belonging to groups regarded as disadvantaged or subject to discrimination. Positive discrimination is unlawful in Great Britain. If an action treating a particular group more favourably does not meet the statutory requirements in the Act for taking positive action, then it is likely to be unlawful direct discrimination under the Act, irrespective of the motives behind taking it."
It was found by an inquiry by the MoD that what the RAF did was positive discrimination and not positive action like the RAF had thought and which is legal under the Equality Act.
There is a very fine line between Positive Discrimination (unlawful) and Positive Action (lawful). The RAF crossed the line and paid out compensation to the affected individuals.
I don't think I 'messed up the concept' at all and the context in which I use 'positive' is correct as per the excerpt taken from the Gov website and the definition of 'Positive Discrimination'.
What I have stated are facts, taken from reputable sources, i.e. Gov website. I take this very seriously and do hold myself to a high standard. You may not agree with my opinion or what I have put across and that is absolutely fine.
@@thesavvysquaddie Hi, thanks for your reply. The ‘messing up’ I was referring to was the implication you made that the RAF was putting a spin on their discrimination by calling it “positive”. Your statement implied that the RAF was trying to justify its policy by claiming it was a “positive”. In your incorrect use of the term, you clearly meant ‘happy’, ‘good’, ‘beneficial’ as the definition of “positive”, which is incorrect. My comment in no way referred to the legality of the RAF’s approach. “Positive” in this context isn’t about happy/joyful outcomes. It’s purely about “adding” people to a workplace. Videos on this topic which incorrectly frame positive discrimination as something that government departments are ‘happy’ about implementing (as you suggested at the end of your video) puts minority groups in this country at risk. Please use the correct definitions in future videos. Thanks again for your response.
@@thesavvysquaddie Well, we can agree to disagree on this, but sincerely wish you best of luck with the channel anyway. The Armed Forces should be getting far more recognition for the daily sacrifices you all make on our behalf, so thank you.
Nearly a perfect video until you ruined it in the end with your ill conceived interpretation on that matter. Please, try not comment on what you don’t understand please, when it comes to diversity through your one eye lens.
Your comment adds absolutely no value and does nothing to help educate or inform me otherwise. As you clearly feel very strongly against what I said, the least you could do is actually point out where you disagree with what I have said and make an actual effort to add value by putting your point across.
@@thesavvysquaddieIf you can't accept criticism, don't publish videos online! Telling someone what their comment contributes is quite rude.
I can perfectly accept criticism which was what I was asking for as you did not provide any useful feedback via your initial comment. Your comment added no actionable or useful value. There is nothing in your comment that I am able to take away as useful information to then improve upon. This is a fact. You can perceive that as rude if you'd like but that doesn't change that fact.
I welcome criticism, please provide some. Take what I said in the video, show me what you disagree with and inform me otherwise. Share your opinion, your point of view. Help me understand where I may have had an "ill conceived interpretation".
Your initial comment is not constructive criticism. Therefore it is not useful and does not have any value. I then asked you to provide that feedback and you still have not. Instead you have taken my response as rude and tell me I shouldn't make videos if I can't take criticism.
I would never suggest to you that you should not post online if you are unable to take criticism, which, at least form this short interaction, seems to be the case seeing as you found my constructive critique of your initial response as rude and failed to even implement any of the suggestions I laid out.
If you disagree with me, then change my mind. I am open to it. I don't claim to have all the answers, no one does but unless you actually provide some form of coherent, relevant, constructive and valuable counter to the points I presented in the video, then I shall continue to hold my opinions and your initial comment continues to have no actionable value.
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He understands it fine, it’s you that doesn’t, with your ill-conceived interpretation of the matter. Please, try not to comment on what you don’t understand please, when it comes to diversity through your one eye lens.