Military Sealift Command

[GLMASailor]

@"yard_bird"

Looks about right. MSC pays on a tonnage scale, so a 3rd Mate on a big ship working OT everyday can pull 6k per pay period without too much trouble. That being said, get stuck on one of the smaller salvage tugs and you’ll see that $no. get cut in half. Also MSC pay really isn’t that good compared to commercial. If you’re on a MSC tug with no overtime you’ll be making less than the crappiest AMO commercial contract (for officers at least). Since I quit MSC I pull way more $$$ per hour worked, its just that my annual gross is less since I’m not at sea all year.

Damn. Thats almost worth going MSC for a while and getting debt free.