But compared to other Army's you blokes are getting royally ripped off.
I'm a 24yr old L/Cpl in Australia's who's been regular for 5 years and thinking about jumping across to your mob for the experience.
I'm pulling in around $58,000 (37,000ish pounds) a year with all my incidentals and allowances. Overseas we're earning $4500 a fortnight tax free!
For my side of the world, your pay looks awful and almost not enough to live on! No wonder so many of you are jumping ship and coming over here. Our Army needs blokes with experience and we're offering tens of thousands of pounds more then you earn. Its a joke.
I am on holiday in Strilya at the moment (Perth) Food is extortionate, as is beer. Went to a nature park yesterday, and paid the equivalent of 60 quid for 4 of us to walk around a posh farm. The Aussies are catching us up in rip off UK that's for sure!!