{"id":61696,"date":"2020-02-10T20:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/02\/10\/troops-would-see-another-big-pay-raise-under-white-house-budget-plan-for-2021\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:39:48","slug":"troops-would-see-another-big-pay-raise-under-white-house-budget-plan-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/02\/10\/troops-would-see-another-big-pay-raise-under-white-house-budget-plan-for-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops would see another big pay raise under White House budget plan for 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Service members would see a 3 percent pay raise<\/a> in 2021 under the federal budget plan<\/a> unveiled by the White House on Monday, the first time in a decade that troops have seen consecutive years with salary boosts of at least that mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, military members saw their pay increased by 3.1 percent<\/a>, the highest figure since 2010. If Congress goes along with the plan, it would increase the average yearly compensation for enlisted personnel to more than $63,000 and the average for officers to nearly $116,000, once other stipends and allowances are factored in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House budget plan, which calls for nearly $741 billion in defense spending for fiscal 2021, labels the pay raise as a \u201cmodest increase\u201d and notes that the figure is equal to the expected rise in the Employment Cost Index, which tracks wages for private industry workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\t