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Outflow( 7) rates( 2) from UK regular forces( 3) to civil life by rank
Rate per 100 people
Financial year	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Navy(4)
OF-3	7.2	6.7	8.0	6.2	6.6	6.2	6.1	6.5	7.2	(6)6.6
OF-2	7.2	6.3	6.5	5.3	6.4	5.3	4.5	5.0	5.3	(6)5.1
OF-1	10.6	6.7	5.6	6.6	6.3	7.8	7.3	8.6	7.9	(6)9.9
Army(5)
OF-3	6.2	6.9	6.4	7.1	7.3	6.3	6.0	6.9	7.0	8.7
OF-2	10.6	10.8	8.1	8.0	6.7	5.7	5.6	6.8	7.7	8.3
OF-1	5.7	7.0	5.6	6.4	4.7	5.3	5.3	5.4	2.9	3.4
RAF
OF-3	7.3	7.6	7.1	6.6	8.3	6.3	6.7	9.0	8.6	11.8
OF-2	4.5	4.7	4.2	5.5	4.4	3.9	4.9	4.8	5.0	6.7
OF-1	3.3	2.9	2.9	2.2	3.0	2.3	2.1	4.2	2.7	2.7

Voluntary outflow rates( 8) from trained UK regular forces( 3) to civil life by rank
Rate per 100 people
Financial year	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Navy(4)
OF-3	2.6	2.8	4.1	2.9	3.7	2.4	2.9	2.6	3.4	(6)3.3
OF-2	2.3	2.6	3.7	2.5	3.8	2.7	2.4	2.4	2.7	(6)2.7
OF-1	0.6	0.0	1.4	0.8	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	(6)0.0
Army(9)
OF-3	3.5	3.9	3.7	4.8	5.0	3.6	4.1	4.4	4.7	n/a
OF-2	4.5	4.4	3.5	4.3	4.5	3.4	4.0	4.5	4.9	n/a
OF-1	0.7	0.9	0.2	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.2	n/a
RAF
OF-3	2.9	2.6	2.3	2.5	3.2	2.0	1.8	2.6	2.8	3.8
OF-2	1.5	1.8	1.6	2.3	2.0	1.6	1.9	2.0	2.0	1.9
OF-1	0.4	1.2	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2	1.4
n/a = unavailable (1) Figures show all intake to UK regular forces including re-enlistments and rejoined reservists. (2) Inflow and outflow rates have been calculated using total (trained and untrained) strength as at 1 April of each year. (3) Figures are for UK regular forces and therefore excludes Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service personnel, the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment and mobilised reservists. NATO Rank is based on JPA field ‘Paid Rank’, if this field is blank then NATO Rank is based on JPA field ‘Substantive Rank’ (4) Due to the introduction of a new personnel administration system, Naval Service statistics from 1 October 2006 are provisional and subject to review. (5) Due to the introduction of a new personnel administration system, Army outflow data by rank for 1 March 2007 to 31 March 2007 are not available. Consequently, Army figures for 2006-07 are the latest available, comprising flows during the period 1 March 2006 to 28 February 2007. (6) Denotes provisional. (7) Figures show all outflow from UK regular forces including recalled reservists on release and outflow to the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment (8) Voluntary outflow rates have been calculated using trained strength only as at 1 April of each year. (9) Due to ongoing validation of data from the new personnel administration system, Army voluntary outflow data for 2006-07 are currently unavailable. Source: DASA (Quad-Service)

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Armed Forces: Pay

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the average pay for soldiers at each rank was in each year since 1997. [196611]

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Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The following table provides tri-service estimates of average annual basic pay by rank for each year since 1997.

Estimate of average annual salary( 1) by NATO rank( 2)
	NATO rank
	OR9	OR8	OR7	OR6	OR4	OR3	OR2	OR1( 3)
1997-98	26,800	24,800	23,400	20,500	18,200	15,600	12,400	9,300
1998-99	27,700	25,600	24,200	21,100	18,800	16,100	12,900	9,600
1999-2000	29,000	26,800	25,300	22,100	19,700	16,900	13,500	10,100
2000-01(4)	30,200	27,900	26,400	23,100	20,500	17,700	14,200	10,600
2001-02	33,400	31,100	29,400	26,000	22,900	19,300	15,300	11,600
2002-03	35,000	32,300	30,500	27,000	23,700	20,000	15,900	12,100
2003-04	36,200	33,400	31,600	27,900	24,700	20,700	16,500	12,500
2004-05	37,200	34,300	32,500	28,700	25,400	21,300	17,000	12,900
2005-06	38,300	35,300	33,500	29,500	26,100	21,900	17,500	13,200
2006-07	39,500	36,400	34,500	30,400	26,900	22,600	18,100	13,700
2007-08	40,800	37,600	35,600	31,500	27,800	23,300	18,800	14,500
(1) Estimates of average annual salaries are based on basic pay only and do not include any allowances. They are calculated by multiplying fixed pay level strengths by the corresponding yearly pay rates. As such they will not include the effects of changes to the spread of pay levels within each rank caused by annual increments, promotions, exits and intakes. The figures provided in this table are taken from calculations used for the Military Salaries Index, a copy of which is available in the UK Defence Statistics at Table 2.26. http://www.dasa.mod.uk/natstats/ukds/2007/c2/table226.html Note that UKDS Table 2.26 also includes illustrative rates. These are actual rates corresponding to the pay level populated by the most service personnel of that rank and will therefore differ from the estimates of average rates of pay provided in this answer. (2) An explanation of the relationship between NATO rank codes and UK service ranks is provided on page 3 of TSP9 available at http://www.dasa.mod.uk/natstats/tsp9/tsp9tab4.html (3 )OR1 estimates include personnel on New Entrant rates of pay and personnel on Artificer Apprentices, Probationary Medical and Communications Technicians rates of pay. (4) There is a discontinuity between 2000-01 and 2001-02—signified by the blank row—which is due to the introduction of a new pay system, Pay 2000. The resulting changes to the structure of military salaries meant that the individual pay rates could not be tracked over this period. As such while estimates since 2001-02 are based on strengths by pay level as at 1 May 2005 estimates prior to this will be based on historic pay strengths under the previous pay structure. Note: All estimates of average annual salary are rounded to the nearest £100.

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