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Retired Pay

    General.
  • Regular Retirement.
    NOAA Corps officers may be voluntarily or involuntarily retired after completion of 20 or more years of qualifying active duty. In the case of a commissioned officer, at least 10 of the years must be active commissioned service.
  • Date of Initial Entry to Military Service (DIEMS).
    All Uniformed Service members have a DIEMS. This date, formerly called Date Military Obligation Incurred (DMOI) in PMIS/JUMPS, determines which of the three retirement plans military members fall under. These retirement plans are:
    • The "HIGH 1" PLAN,
    • The "HIGH 3" PLAN, or
    • The recently approved "15-YEAR CAREER STATUS BONUS" (Also referred to as "REDUX BONUS" or "CHOICE" PLAN).
    Retired Pay Multipliers.
  • Prior to 1 August 1986.
    An officer, warrant officer, or enlisted person who first became a member of a Uniformed Service on or before 31 July 1986 is entitled to:
    • Two and one-half (2 1/2) percent for each full year of creditable service; and
    • One-twelfth of a year (12 months) for each full month of service that is in addition to the number of full years of service of the member, not to exceed 75 percent.

    EXAMPLE: A member with 22 years, 7 months, and 23 days would have a multiplier of 56.45 percent. The 23 days are dropped since they are not a full month.

  • Members who entered the service after 31 July 1986 will be given a choice of retirement plans at their 15th year of service. There are two options.

    • REDUX

      An officer, warrant officer, or enlisted person who first became a member of a Uniformed Service on or after 1 August 1986 can elect the post-1986 retirement system (Military Retirement Reform Act of 1986) commonly referred to as REDUX and take a $30,000 career retention bonus. For members who retire with less than 30 years of creditable service, the percentage of two and one-half percent shall be reduced:

      One percentage point for each full year that the member's years of creditable service are less than 30; and

      One-twelfth of one percentage point for each month by which the member's years of creditable service (after counting all full years of such service) are less than a full year.

      EXAMPLE: A member with 22 years, 7 months, and 23 days would have a multiplier of 49.04 percent. The 23 days are dropped since they are not a full month.

    • Non-REDUX

      An officer, warrant officer, or enlisted person who first became a member of a Uniformed Service on or after 1 August 1986 can take the pre-1986 retirement system (High-36 month average system). See below 3.b below.

    Retired Pay Scale.
  • On or before 7 September 1980.
    An officer, warrant officer, or enlisted person who first became a member of a Uniformed Service on or before 7 September 1980 is entitled to use the current active duty monthly pay scale for the highest pay grade satisfactorily held to determine gross monthly retired pay. With the exception of warrant officers and all others that are mandatorily retired, use the pay scale in effect the first day of retirement. All others use the pay scale in effect the last day of active duty.
  • On or after 8 September 1980. An officer, warrant officer, or enlisted person who first became a member of a Uniformed Service on or after 8 September 1980 will have a retired pay base established by their high 36-month average of basic pay, whether or not consecutive. Normally, this would be the average of the basic pay received in the last 36 months of active duty prior to date of retirement.

Dual Compensation Offset. Prior to 1 Oct 1999 all retired Regular commissioned officers and warrant officers who held Federal Government civilian jobs were subject to dual compensation offsets. They received the full pay of the civilian position but their annual retired pay was reduced by one-half the difference above an annually adjusted base amount. Dual Compensation as it was applied to those effected was repealed in the National Defense Authorization Act of FY2000.