{"id":11338,"date":"2011-06-09T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11338"},"modified":"2011-06-09T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:30:07","slug":"navy-changes-pilot-bonus-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/09\/navy-changes-pilot-bonus-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Changes Pilot Bonus Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/air-force-pilot-uav-bonus-continues-in-2011\/\">the Air Force<\/a>, the US Navy pays its aviators a monetary bonus to encourage retention (though it doesn&#8217;t always work, as the Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/25\/two-thirds-of-af-pilots-accept-bonus\/\">acceptance rate showed<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This year, due to high retention levels, the Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/search\/display.asp?story_id=60607\">altered its bonus plan<\/a>; as stated now, the only aviators who will get the previous years&#8217; $25K bonus per year are F\/A-18 <em>Hornet <\/em>pilots.\u00a0 All others will get a bonus specific to their airframe:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For fiscal year 2011, department head bonus amounts are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; All helicopter pilots, $10,000 per year;<br \/>\n&#8211; EA-18G and EA-6B\u00a0pilots, $15,000 per year; NFOs, $20,000 per year;<br \/>\n&#8211; E-2C\u00a0and C-2\u00a0pilots, $5,000 per year; NFOs, $5,000 per year;<br \/>\n&#8211; FA-18\u00a0pilots, $25,000 per year; NFOs, $10,000 per year;<br \/>\n&#8211; P-3C\u00a0pilots, $10,000 per year; NFOs, $10,000 per year;<br \/>\n&#8211; EP-3\u00a0pilots, $10,000 per year; NFOs, $10,000 per year;<br \/>\n&#8211; E-6A\u00a0pilots, $5,000 per year;\u00a0NFOs, $5,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Previous bonuses were $25,000 per year for all pilots and $15,000 per year for all NFOs, regardless of airframe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the Air Force, the US Navy pays its aviators a monetary bonus to encourage retention (though it doesn&#8217;t always work, as the Air Force acceptance rate showed). This year, due to high retention levels, the Navy altered its bonus plan; as stated now, the only aviators who will get the previous years&#8217; $25K bonus per year are F\/A-18 Hornet [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1414,134,1415,1797,295,5285,2,36,1416,32],"class_list":["post-11338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-acp","tag-air-force","tag-aviator-continuation-pay","tag-bonus","tag-f-18","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-pilot-bonus","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}