The low wage is offset here in the American military when you first start out by how much of a service members housing and food is paid for by the government.
That means if you previously had a domescile where you reside, they pay for food and housing allowance for that (which isn’t taxable). There’s a lot of random things that go into paying service members and a lot of safety nets and other programs in place for them that just don’t exist to the general public. Which sort of offsets the low pay here in America.
I rather like the idea of it not being required to be military service, but including the option for military service. Where you spend a year or two in some kind of service (military or civil public). So you could work for your local one federal government, etc instead.
It is also better (in my opinion) to include men and women in this kind of push, something the draft still ignores to this day.
I suppose I have never experienced an equivalent because in our military bottom of the totem pole is the bottom and often that’s just who does all the worst jobs, and since we were all volunteers it’s not a matter of who’s who.
But yeah, I can understand why asking someone to take a pay cut to do mandatory service for a year would be problematic .
Another thing that happens here is, when you’re a reservist and you are activated your job is protected and in some cases they may be required to pay you the difference if military pay is lower. So it’s not necessarily a pay cut for us.
The low wage is offset here in the American military when you first start out by how much of a service members housing and food is paid for by the government.
That means if you previously had a domescile where you reside, they pay for food and housing allowance for that (which isn’t taxable). There’s a lot of random things that go into paying service members and a lot of safety nets and other programs in place for them that just don’t exist to the general public. Which sort of offsets the low pay here in America.
I rather like the idea of it not being required to be military service, but including the option for military service. Where you spend a year or two in some kind of service (military or civil public). So you could work for your local one federal government, etc instead.
It is also better (in my opinion) to include men and women in this kind of push, something the draft still ignores to this day.
I suppose I have never experienced an equivalent because in our military bottom of the totem pole is the bottom and often that’s just who does all the worst jobs, and since we were all volunteers it’s not a matter of who’s who.
But yeah, I can understand why asking someone to take a pay cut to do mandatory service for a year would be problematic .
Another thing that happens here is, when you’re a reservist and you are activated your job is protected and in some cases they may be required to pay you the difference if military pay is lower. So it’s not necessarily a pay cut for us.