Officers: If the pay was the same, would you decommission to become a NCO?

Would be rough working on the medical side. Most meetings I go to, O-5s are "junior" because there's a star or 2 sitting around the table. O-3s are treated like E-3s. Until you hit at least O-4/5, you're a non-entity.

Every level in the Army is a calling. Some folks think that just because they have a bachelors degree that they should be an officer. The board in a way weeds through those that have an entitlement issue. Even officers that join the Army off the street have to go to a board before being accepted so I think the same should absolutely be true of NCO's that wish to pursue a commission. I have my masters degree but I truly can't imagine being anything other than a NCO, that's my calling!

I don't think I would. I do not have the mindset of being an NCO as I tend to think big picture more than anything. Its not the pay, its the nature of the work for me.

Two answers for me (though, Navy here).
1) No, as a previous poster mentioned IRT medical, chaplain corps would be different/difficult in our current systems. Now, I have met chaplains from other countries who are a) all commissioned from newest guy to the chief as an O-3 (swiss model) , b) are civilians but are assigned to the military (german army), c) hold "relative" rank (british army), d) hold the rank of the person they're talking to (british navy), d) are the local pastor and as such are the chaplain for their town's military unit (that's the Scandinavian model). So, do other systems work? yes. Would they work for chaplains to be NCOs? Not in ours, I don't believe.
2) And also, Yes. I will freely admit that there have been days where I have seriously toyed with the idea of resigning my reserve commission in order to enlist active duty, for the sole reason of better pay over a period of time. Hit a very rough patch financially from 2012-2015, and its literally a miracle we survived.

Question SFC Parra, how would we attached talented officers in he Military if we paid them the same as the supervisors (NCO) they manage? While compensation is not my main motivation for serving as an officer, it’s does make those long nights and many sacrifices worth while in the end. Knowing that you can provide for your family and give them a quality of life when you’re still in the office at 2000 because your staff NCOs failed to accomplish the mission and it still needs to get done.

I'm very pleased with the way I started out in the Army. I made it to SSG(P) and then went to OCS. I can relate to both sides of the house. I enjoyed the times with the Soldiers down the line but knew I needed to do something for myself and the Army. I decided to take the next step up and see what else I could do.