Mid-Month-Pay on the LES Statement?

Congrats on your commission Sir, let's get to your pay. All military service members to the best of my knowledge receive mid-month pay. That mid-month pay is an advance of half what DFAS estimates your total monthly pay will be. If you look on your LES, you’ll see mid-month pay in the middle column, as a deduction. The LES shows that your pay is calculated on a monthly basis, and that the mid-month pay is deducted from the total to result in your end-of-month pay. DFAS calculates on a 30 day cycle regardless if the month has 31 days.

Since you you served 4.5 year prior to you commission, pay close attention to your LES, you may receive O-1E pay. This is only applicable if you have 4 years and 1 day of active duty or more than 1460 points as a warrant and/or enlisted member.

I remember when Mid Month pay started, I was an E2 and was asked to fill the form out for how much I wanted, so I figured out that half my pay was 150 so I wrote 150 on the form, well for the next 4 years through promotions and everything I only got 150 for midmonth pay!

We technically only get paid once a month at the end of the month. The mid month deduction is approximately half of the pay given around the halfway point of the month which gives you your two week pay. Thus, you get paid twice a month (once in the middle, once at the end) and that equals your whole pay check for that month.