Pay Tables for 1917

Field Service Pocket Book, United States Army,
1917, Washington, GPO, 1917

Chapter VII

PAY.

520. Table of Monthly Pay of Enlisted Men Serving in
Enlistment Periods as Indicated:

Private; private, second class; and bugler:
--First----------$30
--Second------- 33
--Third--------- 36
--Fourth-------- 37
--Fifth---------- 38
--Sixth---------- 39
--Seventh------ 40

Corporal (Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry), saddler, mechanic (Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Medical Department), and wagoner;
--First----------$36
--Second------- 39
--Third--------- 42
--Fourth-------- 45
--Fifth---------- 48
--Sixth---------- 51
--Seventh------ 54

Corporal (Engineers, Ordnance, Signal Corps, Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department); mechanic, Coast Artillery, Field Artillery; and musician, third class (Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers):
--First----------$36
--Second------- 39
--Third--------- 42
--Fourth-------- 45
--Fifth---------- 48
--Sixth---------- 51
--Seventh------ 54

Sergeant (Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry); stable sergeant (Field Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry); mess sergeant (Field Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry); cook, horseshoer; radio sergeant; fireman; band corporal; musician, second class (Field Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry, Engineers); musician, third class, Military Academy:
--First----------$38
--Second------- 41
--Third--------- 44
--Fourth-------- 47
--Fifth---------- 50
--Sixth---------- 53
--Seventh------ 56

Sergeant, Engineers, Ordnance, Signal Corps, Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department); stable sergeant, Engineers; supply sergeant, Engineers; mess sergeant, Engineers; color sergeant; electrician sergeant, second class; band sergeant; musician, first class I(Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers); musician, second class, Military Academy:
--First----------$44
--Second------- 48
--Third--------- 52
--Fourth-------- 56
--Fifth---------- 60
--Sixth---------- 64
--Seventh------ 68

Battalion sergeant major (Field Artillery, Infantry); squadron sergeant major; sergeant major, junior grade; master gunner; sergeant bugler; assistant band leader:
--First----------$48
--Second------- 52
--Third--------- 56
--Fourth-------- 60
--Fifth---------- 64
--Sixth---------- 68
--Seventh------ 72

Regimental sergeant major; regimental supply sergeant; sergeant major, senior grade; quartermaster sergeant, Quartermaster Corps; ordnance sergeant; first sergeant; battalion sergeant major, Engineers; battalion supply sergeant, Engineers; electrician sergeant, first class; sergeant first class (Quartermaster Corps, Engineers, Signal Corps); assistant engineer; musician, first class, Military Academy:
--First----------$51
--Second------- 55
--Third--------- 59
--Fourth-------- 63
--Fifth---------- 67
--Sixth---------- 71
--Seventh------ 75

Sergeant, first class, Medical Department; sergeant, field musician, Military Academy:
--First----------$56
--Second------- 60
--Third--------- 64
--Fourth-------- 68
--Fifth---------- 72
--Sixth---------- 76
--Seventh------ 80

Hospital sergeant; master engineer, junior grade; engineer:
--First----------$71
--Second------- 75
--Third--------- 79
--Fourth-------- 83
--Fifth---------- 87
--Sixth---------- 91
--Seventh------ 95

Quartermaster sergeant, senior grade, Quartermaster Corps; band leader; master signal electrician; master electrician, senor grade; master hospital sergeant; band sergeant and assist and leader, Military Academy:
--First----------$81
--Second------- 85
--Third--------- 89
--Fourth-------- 93
--Fifth---------- 97
--Sixth---------- 101
--Seventh------ 105

521. Notes.—(a) Privates, Medical Department, who had the grade of private, Hospital Corps, on June 2, 1916, are entitled to initial pay of $16 per month during the remainder of their current enlistment (Dec. Comp.; June 9, 1916). Men enlisted in the grade of private, Medical Department, or men transferred to that grade on or after June 3, 1916, are entitled to initial pay of $15.

(b) Each aviation enlisted man, while on duty requires him to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights, or while holding the rating of aviation mechanician, shall receive an increase of 50 per cent in his pay.

(c) The base or initial pay of mess sergeants, Corps of Engineers, is $36 per month, and no more. The base or initial pay of mess sergeants of Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery is $30 per month, and no more. Men properly detailed as mess sergeants in the arms of the service for which the grade of mess sergeant is not provided are entitled to the pay of the grades actually held by them, plus $6 per month, as provided in the act of May 11, 1908.

(d) Packmaster (sergeant, first class), assistant packmaster (sergeant), and cargador (corporal) of battery of mountain artillery or mountain artillery headquarters company; when no enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps are attached for such positions, are entitled to initial pay at rate of $45, $36, and $24 monthly, respectively.

(e) “Commencing June one, nineteen hundred and seventeen and continuing until the termination of the emergency, all enlisted men of the Army of the United States in active service whose base pay does not exceed $21 per month shall receive an increase of $15 per month; those whose base pay is $30, $36, or $45 or more, increase of $6 per month, Provided, That the increases of pay herein authorized shall not enter into the computation of continuous-service pay.” (Act approved May 18, 1917)
Increase of twenty per centum for foreign service under act of June 30, 1902, not payable on increases of pay authorized under the act of May 18, 1917. (Dec. Comp., May 29, 1917)

522. Additional pay per month: Mess sergeant, $6; casemate electrician, $9; observer, first class, $9; plotter, $9; coxswain, $9; chief planter, $7; chief loader, $7; observer, second class, $7; gun commander, $7; gun pointer, $7; surgical assistant, $5; expert first-class gunner, Field Artillery, $5; expert rifleman, $5; nurse (first-class private), $3; sharpshooter, $3; first-class Gunner, $3; second-class gunner, $2; marksman, $2; dispensary assistant, $2; certificate of merit, $2.