House Leans Toward 1.9% Pay Raise

Week of May 17, 2010

A House panel has voted to give the military a 1.9 percent pay raise next January.  That would be a half percentage point higher than what the Obama administration wanted simply to match private sector wage growth. The House armed services subcommittee on military personnel panel also endorsed increases next year in hostile fire pay and family separation allowance, enough to restore the relative value of these payments to what they were in 2004 when they last were adjusted.
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