Chapter 2 - Personnel
                     
Table 2.24 UK Regular Forces salaries1: illustrative rates and indices (1990/91=100)
Indices are based on average daily rates of pay during the year. All indices are calculated using standard rank weights taken at 1 March 2008. Since the underlying rank weights are constant the changes in the indices purely reflect changes in pay. The discontinuity indicated between 1990/1991 and 2004/05 actually refers specifically to a discontinuity between 2000/01 and 2001/02, and is due to the introduction of a new pay system, Pay 2000. The resulting changes to the structure of UK Regular Forces salaries meant that individual pay rates could not be tracked over this period. Therefore, pay level weights within rank groups differ prior to 2001/02.
1990/91 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10
                     
UK Regular Forces salaries Index: all ranks2 100 || 193 199 205 213 221 227
       
           
Senior officers (Major General and above) 100 || 194 201 208 214 221 234
Officers (up to Brigadier) 100 || 190 195 201 208 217 223
Other ranks (Sergeant and above) 100 || 200 206 212 219 227 233
Other ranks (up to Corporal) 100 || 192 198 204 212 219 226
 
Illustrative rates3 of annual UK Regular Forces salary (in terms of Army ranks)
 
    Pay 2000 Pay System4  
        Pounds Sterling
     
           
General   Level 4
..
135,675 143,673 152,728 160,625 164,159 172,130
Brigadier   Level 5
..
81,563 84,008 86,527 89,444 96,288 98,984
Colonel   Level 1
..
65,218 67,175 69,189 71,522 77,545 79,716
Lieutenant Colonel   Level 9
..
62,254 64,123 66,047 68,273 74,023 76,095
     
           
Major   Level 9
..
48,056 49,498 50,983 52,702 54,551 56,078
Captain   Level 3
..
33,573 34,580 35,617 36,817 38,109 39,176
Lieutenant   Level 8
..
26,167 26,952 27,762 28,698 29,704 30,536
2nd Lieutenant   Level 5
..
20,681 21,301 21,940 22,680 23,475 24,113
     
           
Warrant Officer I   Level 7 H
..
39,278 40,457 41,672 43,077 44,588 45,836
Warrant Officer II   Level 9 H
..
36,336 37,427 38,551 39,851 41,249 42,404
Staff Sergeant   Level 7 L
..
32,142 33,106 34,098 35,248 36,484 37,506
Sergeant   Level 7 H
..
31,025 31,956 32,916 34,025 35,219 36,205
     
           
Corporal   Level 7 H
..
27,879 28,715 29,576 30,573 31,646 32,532
Lance Corporal   Level 9 H
..
24,313 25,043 25,794 26,664 27,599 28,372
Private   Level 1 L
..
13,461 13,866 14,323 15,677 16,227 16,681
Source: DASA (Quad-Service)
1. Data are for UK Regular Forces which includes all trained and untrained personnel. It excludes all Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve personnel, and mobilised     reservists.
2. Equivalent ranks in the Naval Service and Royal Air Force are shown in Table 2.25.
3. The illustrative rates of annual UK Regular Forces salary are calculated using the Pay Review Bodies' figures for the appropriate year. The rate shown for     each rank is the pay level with the largest number of people at 1 March 2008.
4. In the course of 2001/02, Pay 2000 was introduced for officers and other ranks. For other ranks this involved the introduction of Higher (H) and Lower (L)     incremental pay ranges to which personnel are assigned in accordance with their trade. This replaced the old spot rate system with length of service     increments, where other ranks would remain on the same pay point unless, or until, they were promoted. Under the new system personnel progress annually     subject to satisfactory performance.