Title 37, Chapter 5 — Special and Incentive Pays

Incentive pay: hazardous duty

Incentive pay: aviation career

Special pay: aviation career officers extending period of active duty

Incentive pay: submarine duty

Multiyear retention bonus: medical officers of the armed forces

Multiyear retention bonus: dental officers of the armed forces

Special pay: medical officers of the armed forces

Special pay: optometrists

Special pay: dental officers of the armed forces

Special pay: psychologists and nonphysician health care providers

Special pay: accession and retention bonuses for psychologists

Special pay: accession bonus for registered nurses

Special pay: nurse anesthetists

Special pay: reserve, recalled, or retained health care officers

Special pay: Selected Reserve health care professionals in critically short wartime specialties

Special pay: accession bonus for dental officers

Special pay: pharmacy officers

Special pay: accession bonus for pharmacy officers

Special pay: accession bonus for medical officers in critically short wartime specialties

Special pay: accession bonus for dental specialist officers in critically short wartime specialties

Special pay: veterinarians

Special pay: general provisions

Waiver of board certification requirements

Special pay: diving duty

Special pay: hardship duty pay

Special pay: career sea pay

Special pay: service as member of Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team

Special pay: officers holding positions of unusual responsibility and of critical nature

Special pay: members assigned to international military headquarters

Special pay: special duty assignment pay for enlisted members

Special pay: assignment incentive pay

Special pay: reenlistment bonus

Repealed. Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title VI, § 624(b)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–153]

Special pay: reenlistment bonus for members of the Selected Reserve

Special pay: bonus for affiliation or enlistment in the Selected Reserve

Special pay: members of the Selected Reserve assigned to certain high priority units

Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title VI, § 631(b), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3299]

Repealed. Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title VI, § 624(b)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–153]

Special pay: bonus for enlistment in elements of the Ready Reserve other than the Selected Reserve

Special pay: bonus for reenlistment, enlistment, or voluntary extension of enlistment in elements of the Ready Reserve other than the Selected Reserve

Special pay: prior service enlistment bonus

Special pay: affiliation bonus for officers in the Selected Reserve

Special pay: enlistment bonus

Special pay: duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger

Repealed. Pub. L. 99–145, title VI, § 639(b), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 651]

Special pay: nuclear-qualified officers extending period of active service

Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title VI, § 629(d)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3297]

Special pay: nuclear career accession bonus

Special pay: nuclear career annual incentive bonus

Repealed. Pub. L. 96–513, title IV, § 414(a), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2906]

Special pay or bonus: qualified members extending duty at designated locations overseas

Special pay: engineering and scientific career continuation pay

Special pay: bonus for members with foreign language proficiency

Special pay: incentive pay for members of precommissioning programs pursuing foreign language proficiency

Special pay: officers in critical acquisition positions extending period of active duty

Special pay: special warfare officers extending period of active duty

Special pay: surface warfare officer continuation pay

Incentive pay: career enlisted flyers

Special pay: judge advocate continuation pay

Renumbered § 354]

Renumbered § 355]

Special pay: accession bonus for new officers in critical skills

Incentive bonus: savings plan for education expenses and other contingencies

Incentive bonus: conversion to military occupational specialty to ease personnel shortage

Incentive bonus: transfer between armed forces

Repealed. Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title VI, § 647(a), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2168]

Incentive bonus: retired members and reserve component members volunteering for high-demand, low-density assignments

Special pay: accession bonus for officer candidates

General bonus authority for enlisted members

General bonus authority for officers

Special bonus and incentive pay authorities for nuclear officers

Special aviation incentive pay and bonus authorities for officers

Special aviation incentive pay and bonus authorities: enlisted members who operate remotely piloted aircraft

Special bonus and incentive pay authorities for officers in health professions

Contracting bonus for cadets and midshipmen enrolled in the Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps

Hazardous duty pay

Assignment pay or special duty pay

Skill incentive pay or proficiency bonus

Special pay: 15-year career status bonus for members entering service on or after August 1, 1986

Special pay: retention incentives for members qualified in critical military skills or assigned to high priority units

Continuation pay: full TSP members with 7 to 12 years of service

Special and incentive pay authorities for members of the reserve components of the armed forces

Relationship to other incentives and pays

Continuation of pays during hospitalization and rehabilitation resulting from wounds, injury, or illness incurred while on duty in a hostile fire area or exposed to an event of hostile fire or other hostile action

Repayment of unearned portion of bonus, incentive pay, or similar benefit, and termination of remaining payments, when conditions of payment not met

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