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Subject:
Spending on Professional Troops in Advanced/Developed/Western Countries
Roman
3/6/2005 9:42:26 AM
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I would be interested to know about how much a developed country generally needs to pay a professional soldier in order to attract the people the armed forces need. By spending on a soldier I mean spending on financial compensation for him, which includes pay (there are I guess many grades of such pay), various financial benefits (housing allowance, food allowance etc.) including family benefits (child allowance, spouse allowance, etc.), all sorts of incentive/specialty pay (to attract doctors, assorted bonuses (enlistment bonuses, re-enlistment bonuses, etc.), danger pay (combat pay, etc.) and all other forms of compensation for the soldier. Sure, this probably differs country by country - so your country, or the U.S.A. (the biggest and the richest developed country), or the highest, or the average, or simply the country you know about would do fine. :)
Bear in mind that I am talking about professional troops - in conscript armies of the developed world the compensation varies wildly. For example, Slovakia gives conscripts $12 per month (used to be $4 per month) and no allowances (though you are required to live in the barracks for the duration of the service where there is also a canteen), but I can easily imagine that some countries might offer much higher compensation (I believe in Germany it is in excess of Euro 1,000 per month [more than $1,200 per month]) while still other countries might offer conscripts no compensation whatsoever. |
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