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An RAF A400M Atlas transport aircraft carrying out a series of spectacular test landings and take offs on a beach in South Wales.
The X-Factor
The Armed Forces PayReview Body (AFPRB) recently reviewed the X-Factor element of Service pay during the 2018 PayRound, the results of which are awaited at the time of going to press.
What exactly is the X-Factor?
The X-Factor is apensionable addition to pay that recognises the special conditions of service experienced by members of the Armed Forces compared with their civilian peers. It
accounts for arange of potential advantages and disadvantages which cannot be fully evaluated when assessing pay comparability with the civilian workforce, and is expressed as apercentage of base
pay.The current rate of X-Factor for Regular and Full-Time Reserve Service (FTRS) (Full Commitment) personnel is 14.5%; 5% for Part-Time Volunteer Reserves, Additional Duties Commitment, Military Provost Guard Service and FTRS (Local Commitment) personnel; and 0% for FTRS (Home Commitment) and University and Medical Officer Cadets. In order to help personnel understand what element of their pay is made up of X-Factor,monthly payslips now show the value of X-Factor as aproportion of total pay.
X-Factor is assessed against 13 components and changes affecting each component are reviewed every five years. No single component has agreater weighting than another, and all components reflect athrough career impact, both positive and negative. Not all personnel will be affected by all components all of the time, but the majority will be affected by all components at some point during their careers.
Members of The Royal Air Force TugofWar Team during atraining session at Lincoln TA Centre.
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Broadly speaking the 13 X-Factor components can be broken down into three positive ones and 10 negative. The term ‘broadly speaking’ is used as not everyone will view the different components in the same
way.For example, some personnel and their families might view moving around constantly as exciting and one of the attractions of Service life, when others do not, or some might view it as more of a positive in the early stages of acareer and less so later on.
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