Peace Time: July 10, 2002

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Because military pay has fallen well behind the civilian market, Congress passed a law that annual military pay raises must be 0.5 percent (as a percentage of pay, not of the increase) than average civilian pay raises during the same year. This mandate expires in 2006, at which point military pay will still be 4.6 percent behind civilian pay, so Congress is moving to extend the formula to 2013.--Stephen V Cole

 

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