In 2006 when I medically released as a 4 year Cpl ( your OR4) my pay was $65000. Now in 2024, 18 years later, it's 76k$. In my time, Cpl was considered a working rank, it was not unheard of to have 20 year Cpls retiring. The pay hasn't kept up, for example, a pte recruit got $12k a year when I joined and we had people at the food banks as we are starting to see today. Canada has to decide what it wants and live with the consequences of those decisions.
@@jeffho1727 im in the application process for med tech (im a paramedic), the wages are significantly lower in the caf. Is the pension worth the lower wages tho?
@@watermelonhead6525 You are going to have paid training and a decent opportunity for career courses. If you're single, you don't need a lot more. Lots of my buds who stayed in are retiring as MWO or chiefs, I was 3b as a cpl, significant pension difference. Do your first hitches, see where you are and where it takes you. No 2 careers are the same. Enjoy. It gets in your blood.
So basically a Corporal with 4 years experience gets paid the same as a teacher, who works 9 months a year with nil risk of deployment / death (assuming the teacher doesn't work in the US and be subject to random threat of school shooting deaths), and the teacher has no requirement to periodically relocate. The members of the armed forces get inadequate pay for the commitment and risk they assume, in ALL countries. Not surprisingly air force pilots receive similar pay to civilian pilots (plus free flight training. which is why so many civilian pilots are ex-military). And about the same pay as Headmaster teacher.But they get to fly awesome planes, instead of flying 737s back and forth a couple of times a day. And unlike teachers don't have to deal with the PTA.
These pay rates are effective April 1, 2024.
What are your thoughts on the basic pay for NCMs?
The pay is not bad.
In 2006 when I medically released as a 4 year Cpl ( your OR4) my pay was $65000. Now in 2024, 18 years later, it's 76k$. In my time, Cpl was considered a working rank, it was not unheard of to have 20 year Cpls retiring. The pay hasn't kept up, for example, a pte recruit got $12k a year when I joined and we had people at the food banks as we are starting to see today. Canada has to decide what it wants and live with the consequences of those decisions.
@@jeffho1727 im in the application process for med tech (im a paramedic), the wages are significantly lower in the caf. Is the pension worth the lower wages tho?
@@watermelonhead6525 You are going to have paid training and a decent opportunity for career courses. If you're single, you don't need a lot more. Lots of my buds who stayed in are retiring as MWO or chiefs, I was 3b as a cpl, significant pension difference. Do your first hitches, see where you are and where it takes you. No 2 careers are the same. Enjoy. It gets in your blood.
@@watermelonhead6525 you also have to factor in the job security and structured promotions. none of which really exists in the private sector.
So basically a Corporal with 4 years experience gets paid the same as a teacher, who works 9 months a year with nil risk of deployment / death (assuming the teacher doesn't work in the US and be subject to random threat of school shooting deaths), and the teacher has no requirement to periodically relocate.
The members of the armed forces get inadequate pay for the commitment and risk they assume, in ALL countries.
Not surprisingly air force pilots receive similar pay to civilian pilots (plus free flight training. which is why so many civilian pilots are ex-military).
And about the same pay as Headmaster teacher.But they get to fly awesome planes, instead of flying 737s back and forth a couple of times a day. And unlike teachers don't have to deal with the PTA.
Corporal had 4 years of experience in the millitary, but the teacher did 6 more years in school than the soldier.
SALUTE!
You can't live on those wages in Canada
The economy is in shambles.
You are saying people can't live on $10.000 a month! You don't want to become a pensioner then!
What about the officers?
Coming in a separate video soon.
Was wondering the same thing.
THE OLD RIP principle! Rank has its privileges!
When I was a recruit in 1979 we made $533 a month
Not enough!
All these pays are with tax ? described in video
Before tax.
Vive le Québec libre!