Incentive and Hardship Pay
Incentive and Hardship Pay
Along with pay received for your weekend drills and annual training, certain National Guard members may be eligible for special or incentive pay.
Click on the links below to learn more about special or incentive pay for which you may be eligible:
Hostile Fire or Imminent Danger Pay
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Assignment Incentive Pay (AIP). The assignment incentive package includes an extra $200 in hardship duty pay (beyond the $100 already being received) and $800 monthly in Assignment Incentive Pay (AIP). To receive this additional benefit, extended service members must sign a DA Form 4187, Personnel Action Form Addendum. The extra pay will be available only after the service member exceeds 365 consecutive days in the Central Command theater.
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Hostile Fire or Imminent Danger Pay. Special pay of $150 per month is due to members assigned to or associated with a unit subject to hostile fire, explosion of hostile mines or other imminent danger in places designated by the Secretary of State.
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High-Tempo Deployment Pay. Prior to 9/11, Congress passed a high-tempo deployment pay law requiring that service members be paid $100 extra for any days of deployment in excess of 400 in a 740-day period. Under this law, the President or Secretary of Defense had the authority to suspend these payments in the interest of national security. Immediately following 9/11, the President did suspend the payments, and the program was then changed by the FY 2004 Military Authorization Act. Under the new law, the Secretary of each individual service sets the amount of high-tempo deployment pay. The amount paid cannot exceed $1,000 per month. The amount is payable anytime a member has been deployed for more than 191 continuous days or more than 430 days out of the previous 740-day period. Other conditions apply to high-tempo deployment pay. More information on this act is available at the usmilitary.com Web site. The FY 2004 Military Authorization Act also allows each service to amend its leave regulations. It allows service members to carry more than 120 days of unused leave at the end of the fiscal year if the service member served at least 120 continuous days in a designated combat zone. However, the act does not require this, so each service can determine whether this provision should be included in its leave regulations.
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Diving Duty Pay. Officers assigned to diving duty receive a special pay rate not to exceed $240 per month.
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Aviation Career Incentive Pay. Aviation Career Incentive Pay was designed to improve aviator retention and concentrate the highest rates of pay in the most flight-intensive period of an aviator’s career. See https://www.virtualarmory.com/home/ for more information.
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Submarine Duty Pay. Officers assigned to submarine or self-propelled submersible vehicle duty on a career basis are entitled to incentive pay. See https://www.virtualarmory.com/home/ for a pay table.
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Officer Career Sea Pay. Officer Career Sea Pay is often due to service members permanently or temporarily assigned to seagoing vessels. The pay chart is available at https://www.virtualarmory.com/home/.