Some of the comments received:
When training, it doesn’t make sense that you get paid £35 a day but working up to 24 hours a day, yet if you go in for 8 hours, you receive a full day’s pay. It’s less then minimum wage if you work a full day. I believe many people are put off joining for that very reason or likely to leave during Halton or Ex Omega because they don’t see any monetary benefit if they are self-employed or employers make them take it as holiday. The bounty simply makes up for the poor pay you receive for your training days the only grace is that it is tax free.
My employer pays me extra to be an SR. My allowance package is significantly higher than my RAF Regular colleagues doing the same job alongside me and I am paid overtime whilst deployed by my employer. My employer pays the SR a lot of money to retain us and thus meet their contractual obligations. This had led to most of us SR being motivated by financial reasons, which may not be best for the RAF.
The Basic Reservists Pay seems a bit low, however I fully understand and appreciate that my full-time professional salary is matched by the reserves when mobilised.
I am not bothered about pay as I do not do it for the money
Pay is difficult as I think most people don’t do it for the money. I certainly don’t. If it was the money then I probably wouldn’t be in the Reserves as the pay is not that good. I know nurses who can and do earn a lot more doing bank or agency shifts and would rather do that than join the Reserves.
We asked: Are you satisfied with the amount of the annual bounty?
Not applicable 27%
I don’t know 4%
20% No
Yes 49%
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