| Key
HDA
= Higher Duties allowance.
HLM
= Hard Lying Money or what is known today as Seagoing Allowance.
GCIs
= Good Conduct Increments, awarded every five years if you have
been a good boy.
Other
= What was known as Strategic Reserve Allowance. (being 'Up Top'
Basically).
MA,
SA or PA = Marriage Allowance, Separation Allowance
or In Port Allowance, the one listed here is In Port Allowance
as I was not married. In Port allowance were paid according to
the port and number of days alongside.
In the days before equality married men were paid an exta marriage
allowance or if the were deployed they received a little more
in the way of 'Separation Allowance'.
UA
= Uniform Maintenance Allowance - the only component of our pay
that was not taxed.
Tax
= Speaks for itself
BFC
= DFRDB, Defence Force Retirements Benefits Fund (Super and Pension).
No longer exists today, in fact you cannot today serve 20 years
in the Australian Defence Forces, retire after 20 years and receive
a pension. You now must wait until the National Retiring age for
service personnel at 55. Our politicians changed this law by act
of parliment in the early 1990s - whilst at the same time keeping
the privilage for themselves for serving less than half the time.
Not a bad lurk for a politician who has never had to confront
anything more agressive than an angry dog.
Allotments
- What are now called deductions and direct debits - I had $50.00
per pay going to a loan for a $2995.00 Toyota Carolla and can't
for the life of me remember what the $16.00 was going to. |
