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If you are finishing civilian deferrment and about to begin OIS this summer and then go to San Diego, how many years of service do you have when you calculate your pay...
If you are finishing civilian deferrment and about to begin OIS this summer and then go to San Diego, how many years of service do you have when you calculate your pay...
3 years, if u did a 3 year residency
Wait...Let me get this straight. If you did a CIVILIAN Internship/Residency, it counts as time in active duty towards pay grade???
That does not really make much sense. In that case, everybody you did a internship then went to do a GMO tour would go up in pay scale after only one year of active duty (From 0-2 years of active duty to 2-4 years).
As an aside, be very careful what your finance office and others will tell you. When I first came on to active duty in July after starting my GMO tour, I was paid as an O-3 with 4 years of active duty service (I guess they were counting my HPSP time since I was commisioned Feb '01). Anyway...After months of telling them that I was getting overpaid and HPSP did not count towards active duty service, they finally realized it 9 months later and now I have to pay back ~$5000 over the course of the next year. Thank god I was putting away the extra money in an online savings account with 5% interest. In addition, I knew it was coming because the same thing happened to multiple interns that were starting at Travis AFB for internship so I was not surprised. However, if anybody can get away with getting paid this way for >2 years, the government can't legally ask for the money back (According to the local JAGs, anyway).
But back to the point, would I be eligible for a pay raise (Not talking about promotion to O-4) this July, if in fact my civilian intership year does count towards time in service? That would make a huge difference in salary if so.
Your pay grade entry date is based on the day you graduate from medical school. All of your time towards promotion and pay start over on this date.
That is correct. I'm sorry it doesn't make sense. I actually got paid as an 0-3 with 7 years for a while before they figured it out. It is now correct...0-3 with 3 years (I'm in my first year out of a 3-year residency.)
And yes you would be eligible for a pay raise. I'm not sure what you mean by "huge" but to each his own. Civilian residency counts toward pay and rank but not toward retirement.