Posted on May 20, 2016
SPC(P) PATRIOT Fire Control Enhanced Operator/Maintainer
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I'm a 14E SPC going through re-enlistment. RIght now for my grade it's a tier 5 bonus for $10,600 for 5 years, I calculated I'd get around $7,000 ish after taxes. Now retention is telling me, because my ETS date is June 2017, my srb is getting reduced to $7,100 for 5 years, around $5,000 ish after taxes. Does this sound right?
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Your SRB isn't reduced, you just don't understand how a bonus is calculated. You are paid based upon the amount of time you are adding to your contract. Roughly speaking if you are more than a year from ETS, and you reenlist 5 years, you are adding more than 3 less than 4 years to your service. That's the amount you are paid based off the SRB chart. Subtract 25% for taxes, 28% if your state takes taxes (if I remember correctly).
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SFC Retention Operations Nco
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Is the issue that you haven't received your bonus yet, or that your Career Counselor didn't explain how much you were getting?
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MSG Pat Colby
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GREAT Point! ^5
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This is great SFC, no issue really, just a lot of soldiers included myself that did not get this explained to us and so we were kind of surprised at the difference. BN career counselor stated that after the tier 5 bonus I'd get x amount after taxes. Turned out BDE retention was the one who was tracking this.
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As SFC Boyd stated you only get paid for what you are adding to your contract. If you are 14 months away from your current ETS then you are only adding 47 months to your contact by reenlisting for 5 years and that is all you can be paid for, the 47 months. According to the most current SRB message Milper message 16-115, 47 months = $7,100 and this is just taking from your comment of your ETS being in June 2017 and it being May. If you wait one month then your SRB can go up to $8,800, however the messages can change at any time. Your Career Counselor is correct since you can get only get paid for what you are adding not what you still owe on your current contract. Hope this helps
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MSG Pat Colby
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^5! Nice. Very nicely done!
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Thank you
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SPC(P) PATRIOT Fire Control Enhanced Operator/Maintainer
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Thank you SSG, this is an awesome explanation and is actually quite easy to understand. Thank you for also sharing where this information can be learned!
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You are very welcome glad I could help
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I just reupped for flight medic. Tier 4 bonus 4 years 7600 bonus before taxes.
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Good for you☺️
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Thank you!
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