At E-4 pay grade, the Navy’s petty officer third class is already an NCO. Starting at E-6, some NCOs can achieve higher pay than low-ranking warrant or commissioned officers.

The new policy also sets the time sailors need to serve for automatic advancement to E-2 at nine months of service, and 18 months for E-3.

Junior enlisted service members will soon see a significant boost in their pay as the Pentagon rolls out a targeted raise aimed at improving quality of life for the military’s lowest-paid ranks.

Navy officials say “a software issue” resulted in incorrect service time calculations for 1,283 Navy retirees, errors that span from August 2019 to this past February. The mistake resulted in ...

Starting in October 2010, Sailors selected for advancement to E4, E5 and E6 advance at a rate of 3% per month for the first five months of the six-month pay increment.