Army Ranks & Pay Grade

Clicking the bold underlined headers such as "Enlisted Rank" will take you right to the pay grade chart. Simply hit your browser's back button to be brought back to the rank insignia.

Enlisted Rank
E-1	E-2	E-3	E-4	E-4
No Insignia
Private	Private	Private First Class	Specialist	Corporal
E-5	E-6	E-7	E-8	E-8
Sergeant	Staff Sergeant	Sergeant First Class	Master Sergeant	First Sergeant
E-9	E-9	E-9
Sergeant Major	Command Sergeant Major	Sergeant Major of the Army
Warrant Officers
W-1	W-2	W-3	W-4	W-5
Warrant Officer 1	Chief Warrant Officer 2	Chief Warrant Officer 3	Chief Warrant Officer 4	Master Warrant Officer 5
Officers
O-1	O-2	O-3	O-4	O-5
Second Lieutenant	First Lieutenant	Captain	Major	Lieutenant Colonel
O-6	O-7	O-8	O-9	O-10
Colonel	Brigadier General	Major General	Lieutenant General	General

Note: Pay increases do not stop at 10 years enlistment. In an effort to save space, the table below only goes up to 10 years enlistment. If you have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer, you can view the entire pay grade document here. It's a 681KB file, so it may take a few minutes to download if you don't have high speed internet access. This table has been updated to show the pay grade that is effective as of January 1st, 2006.

*W-5, O-9, and O-10 pay grade is not shown because 20 years enlistment is required for those ranks. As stated above, this table stops at 10 years enlistment. All pay values with cents were rounded to the nearest dollar to save space.