Incentive and Special Pay : 2010

AVIATION CAREER PAY and AVIATION CAREER CONTINUATION PAY

For 2010, adjustments to Aviation Career Continuation Pay (ACCP) provide selected bonuses as an incentive to eligible pilots and naval flight officers.

2010 changes include reducing long-term annual bonuses for naval flight officers from $25,000 per year to $15,000 per year for five years; reducing at-sea bonuses for lieutenant commanders and commanders from $15,000 per year to $10,000 per year for two years; and reducing command bonuses from $15,000 per year to $12,000 per year for three years. In addition, captains and captain-selects are no longer eligible for new ACCP contracts.

Under the full-time support (FTS) Aviation Career Continuation Pay program, FTS aviators are eligible for bonuses of $15,000 per year for up to three years.

Long-term applicants are eligible if their active duty service obligation expires in fiscal year 2010 or 2011. Payment will begin when the officer is within one year of completion of the active duty service obligation. ACCP applications must be received before Sept., 24, 2010.

Aviation Career Incentive Pay is for Active Duty Officers on Aviation Duty. Both regular and reserve officers are eligible if they hold or are training to hold and aeronautical designation or rating who engage in aviation service on a career basis.

For officers above O-6 with less than 25 years of aviation service:

• An officer in pay grade O-7 may not be paid at a rate greater than $200 a month.
• An officer in pay grade O-8 or above may not be paid at a rate greater than $206 a month. Warrant officers with over 22 years of aviation service are payed at the rate for officers with over 14 years of aviation service. In time of war, the President may suspend the payment of aviation career incentive pay.

* Entitlement to continuous Aviation Career Incentive Pay (ACIP) ceases for an officer upon completion of 25 years of aviation service. A qualified officer in a pay grade below O-7 remains entitled to monthly (conditional) ACIP when required by competent orders to perform operations.