Federal
Title 37 — Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services
234 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 1001 — Regulations relating to pay and allowances
- § 1002 — Additional training or duty without pay: Reserves; members of the National Guard; members of the Space Force
- § 1003 — Assimilation of pay and allowances
- § 1004 — Computation of pay and allowances for month or part of month
- § 1005 — Army, Air Force, and Space Force: prompt payments required
- § 1006 — Advance payments
- § 1007 — Deductions from pay
- § 1008 — Presidential recommendations concerning adjustments and changes in pay and allowances
- § 1009 — Adjustments of monthly basic pay
- § 101 — Definitions
- § 1010 — Commissioned officers: promotions; effective date for pay and allowances
- § 1011 — Mess operation: reimbursement of expenses
- § 1012 — Disbursement and accounting: pay of enlisted members of the National Guard
- § 1013 — Payment of compensation for victims of terrorism
- § 1014 — Payment date for pay and allowances
- § 1015 — Recordation of installment payment obligations for incentive pays and similar benefits
- § 1016 — Pay statements: descriptions of types of pay
- § 201 — Pay grades: assignment to; general rules
- § 202 — Pay grades: retired Coast Guard rear admirals (lower half)
- § 203 — Rates
- § 204 — Entitlement
- § 205 — Computation: service creditable
- § 206 — Reserves; members of National Guard; members of the Space Force: inactive-duty training
- § 206a — Pay of members of reserve components for inactive-duty training to obtain or maintain an aeronautical rating or designation
- § 207 — Band leaders
- § 208 — Repealed. Pub. L. 91–482, § 1(b) , Oct. 21, 1970 , 84 Stat. 1082 ]
- § 209 — Members of precommissioning programs
- § 210 — Pay of senior enlisted members during terminal leave and while hospitalized
- § 211 — Participation in Thrift Savings Plan
- § 212 — Advancement of basic pay: members deployed in combat zone for more than one year
- § 301 — Incentive pay: hazardous duty
- § 301a — Incentive pay: aviation career
- § 301b — Special pay: aviation career officers extending period of active duty
- § 301c — Incentive pay: submarine duty
- § 301d — Multiyear retention bonus: medical officers of the armed forces
- § 301e — Multiyear retention bonus: dental officers of the armed forces
- § 302 — Special pay: medical officers of the armed forces
- § 302a — Special pay: optometrists
- § 302b — Special pay: dental officers of the armed forces
- § 302c — Special pay: psychologists and nonphysician health care providers
- § 302c–1 — Special pay: accession and retention bonuses for psychologists
- § 302d — Special pay: accession bonus for registered nurses
- § 302e — Special pay: nurse anesthetists
- § 302f — Special pay: reserve, recalled, or retained health care officers
- § 302g — Special pay: Selected Reserve health care professionals in critically short wartime specialties
- § 302h — Special pay: accession bonus for dental officers
- § 302i — Special pay: pharmacy officers
- § 302j — Special pay: accession bonus for pharmacy officers
- § 302k — Special pay: accession bonus for medical officers in critically short wartime specialties
- § 302l — Special pay: accession bonus for dental specialist officers in critically short wartime specialties
- § 303 — Special pay: veterinarians
- § 303a — Special pay: general provisions
- § 303b — Waiver of board certification requirements
- § 304 — Special pay: diving duty
- § 305 — Special pay: hardship duty pay
- § 305a — Special pay: career sea pay
- § 305b — Special pay: service as member of Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team
- § 306 — Special pay: officers holding positions of unusual responsibility and of critical nature
- § 306a — Special pay: members assigned to international military headquarters
- § 307 — Special pay: special duty assignment pay for enlisted members
- § 307a — Special pay: assignment incentive pay
- § 308 — Special pay: reenlistment bonus
- § 308a — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A] , title VI, § 624(b)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000 , 114 Stat. 1654 , 1654A–153]
- § 308b — Special pay: reenlistment bonus for members of the Selected Reserve
- § 308c — Special pay: bonus for affiliation or enlistment in the Selected Reserve
- § 308d — Special pay: members of the Selected Reserve assigned to certain high priority units
- § 308e — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title VI, § 631(b) , Jan. 6, 2006 , 119 Stat. 3299 ]
- § 308f — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A] , title VI, § 624(b)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000 , 114 Stat. 1654 , 1654A–153]
- § 308g — Special pay: bonus for enlistment in elements of the Ready Reserve other than the Selected Reserve
- § 308h — Special pay: bonus for reenlistment, enlistment, or voluntary extension of enlistment in elements of the Ready Reserve other than the Selected Reserve
- § 308i — Special pay: prior service enlistment bonus
- § 308j — Special pay: affiliation bonus for officers in the Selected Reserve
- § 309 — Special pay: enlistment bonus
- § 310 — Special pay: duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger
- § 311 — Repealed. Pub. L. 99–145, title VI, § 639(b) , Nov. 8, 1985 , 99 Stat. 651 ]
- § 312 — Special pay: nuclear-qualified officers extending period of active service
- § 312a — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title VI, § 629(d)(1) , Jan. 6, 2006 , 119 Stat. 3297 ]
- § 312b — Special pay: nuclear career accession bonus
- § 312c — Special pay: nuclear career annual incentive bonus
- § 313 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–513, title IV, § 414(a) , Dec. 12, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2906 ]
- § 314 — Special pay or bonus: qualified members extending duty at designated locations overseas
- § 315 — Special pay: engineering and scientific career continuation pay
- § 316 — Special pay: bonus for members with foreign language proficiency
- § 316a — Special pay: incentive pay for members of precommissioning programs pursuing foreign language proficiency
- § 317 — Special pay: officers in critical acquisition positions extending period of active duty
- § 318 — Special pay: special warfare officers extending period of active duty
- § 319 — Special pay: surface warfare officer continuation pay
- § 320 — Incentive pay: career enlisted flyers
- § 321 — Special pay: judge advocate continuation pay
- § 322 — Renumbered § 354]
- § 323 — Renumbered § 355]
- § 324 — Special pay: accession bonus for new officers in critical skills
- § 325 — Incentive bonus: savings plan for education expenses and other contingencies
- § 326 — Incentive bonus: conversion to military occupational specialty to ease personnel shortage
- § 327 — Incentive bonus: transfer between armed forces
- § 328 — Repealed. Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title VI, § 647(a) , Dec. 23, 2016 , 130 Stat. 2168 ]
- § 329 — Incentive bonus: retired members and reserve component members volunteering for high-demand, low-density assignments
- § 330 — Special pay: accession bonus for officer candidates
- § 331 — General bonus authority for enlisted members
- § 332 — General bonus authority for officers
- § 333 — Special bonus and incentive pay authorities for nuclear officers
- § 334 — Special aviation incentive pay and bonus authorities for officers
- § 334a — Special aviation incentive pay and bonus authorities: enlisted members who operate remotely piloted aircraft
- § 335 — Special bonus and incentive pay authorities for officers in health professions
- § 336 — Contracting bonus for cadets and midshipmen enrolled in the Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
- § 351 — Hazardous duty pay
- § 352 — Assignment pay or special duty pay
- § 353 — Skill incentive pay or proficiency bonus
- § 354 — Special pay: 15-year career status bonus for members entering service on or after August 1, 1986
- § 355 — Special pay: retention incentives for members qualified in critical military skills or assigned to high priority units
- § 356 — Continuation pay: full TSP members with 7 to 12 years of service
- § 357 — Special and incentive pay authorities for members of the reserve components of the armed forces
- § 371 — Relationship to other incentives and pays
- § 372 — Continuation of pays during hospitalization and rehabilitation resulting from wounds, injury, or illness incurred while on duty in a hostile fire area or exposed to an event of hostile fire or other hostile action
- § 373 — Repayment of unearned portion of bonus, incentive pay, or similar benefit, and termination of remaining payments, when conditions of payment not met
- § 374 — Regulations
- § 401 — Definitions
- § 402 — Basic allowance for subsistence
- § 402a — Supplemental subsistence allowance for low-income members with dependents
- § 402b — Basic needs allowance for members on active service in the Armed Forces
- § 403 — Basic allowance for housing
- § 403a — Housing treatment for certain members of the armed forces, and their spouses and other dependents, undergoing a permanent change of station within the United States
- § 403b — Cost-of-living allowance in the continental United States
- § 404 — Renumbered § 474]
- § 404a — Renumbered § 474a]
- § 404b — Renumbered § 474b]
- § 405 — Travel and transportation allowances: per diem while on duty outside the continental United States
- § 405a — Renumbered § 475a]
- § 406 — Renumbered § 476]
- § 406a — Renumbered § 476a]
- § 406b — Renumbered § 476b]
- § 406c — Renumbered § 476c]
- § 407 — Renumbered § 477]
- § 408 — Renumbered § 478]
- § 408a — Renumbered § 478a]
- § 409 — Renumbered § 479]
- § 410 — Renumbered § 480]
- § 411 — Renumbered § 481]
- § 411a — Renumbered § 481a]
- § 411b — Renumbered § 481b]
- § 411c — Renumbered § 481c]
- § 411d — Renumbered § 481d]
- § 411e — Renumbered § 481e]
- § 411f — Renumbered § 481f]
- § 411g — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title VI, § 631(c) , Dec. 31, 2011 , 125 Stat. 1460 ]
- § 411h — Renumbered § 481h]
- § 411i — Renumbered § 481i]
- § 411j — Renumbered § 481j]
- § 411k — Renumbered § 481k]
- § 411l — Renumbered § 481l]
- § 412 — Renumbered § 455]
- § 413 — Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- § 414 — Personal money allowance
- § 415 — Uniform allowance: officers; initial allowance
- § 416 — Uniform allowance: officers; additional allowances
- § 417 — Uniform allowance: officers; general provisions
- § 418 — Clothing allowance: enlisted members
- § 419 — Civilian clothing allowance
- § 420 — Allowances while participating in international sports
- § 421 — Allowances: no increase while dependent is entitled to basic pay
- § 422 — Cadets and midshipmen
- § 423 — Validity of allowance payments based on purported marriages
- § 424 — Band leaders
- § 425 — United States Navy Band; United States Marine Corps Band: allowances while on concert tour
- § 426 — Repealed. Pub. L. 90–377, § 10 , July 5, 1968 , 82 Stat. 288 ]
- § 427 — Family separation allowance
- § 428 — Renumbered § 488]
- § 429 — Renumbered § 489]
- § 430 — Renumbered § 490]
- § 431 — Benefits for certain members assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency
- § 432 — Renumbered § 492]
- § 433 — Allowance for muster duty
- § 433a — Allowance for participation in Ready Reserve screening
- § 434 — Renumbered § 494]
- § 435 — Funeral honors duty: allowance
- § 436 — High-deployment allowance: lengthy or numerous deployments; frequent mobilizations
- § 437 — Allowance to cover monthly premiums for Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance: members serving in a designated duty assignment
- § 438 — Preventive health services allowance
- § 439 — Special compensation: members of the uniformed services with catastrophic injuries or illnesses requiring assistance in everyday living
- § 451 — Definitions
- § 452 — Allowable travel and transportation: general authorities
- § 453 — Allowable travel and transportation: specific authorities
- § 454 — Travel and transportation: pilot programs
- § 455 — Appropriations for travel: may not be used for attendance at certain meetings
- § 456 — Managed travel program refunds
- § 461 — Relationship to other travel and transportation authorities
- § 462 — Travel and transportation allowances paid to members that are unauthorized or in excess of authorized amounts: requirement for repayment
- § 463 — Programs of compliance; electronic processing of travel claims
- § 464 — Regulations
- § 471 to 474b — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title VI, § 604(a) , Dec. 27, 2021 , 135 Stat. 1767 ]
- § 475 — Renumbered § 405]
- § 475a to 490 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title VI, § 604(a) , Dec. 27, 2021 , 135 Stat. 1767 ]
- § 491 — Renumbered § 431]
- § 492 to 494 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title VI, § 604(a) , Dec. 27, 2021 , 135 Stat. 1767 ]
- § 495 — Renumbered § 435]
- § 501 — Payments for unused accrued leave
- § 502 — Absences due to sickness, wounds, and certain other causes
- § 503 — Absence without leave or over leave
- § 504 — Cadets and midshipmen: chapter does not apply to
- § 551 — Definitions