Member's paygrade when first entering the service. This entry is used with other factors to project a wage history for social security benefit purposes.

Member's current grade for pay purposes. When using the Military Pension Benefits Analysis, if the member is on a promotion list for promotion at some future date, the member's current paygrade should still be used. The new paygrade can be entered under the member's retired paygrade.

Service Senior Enlisted representatives, i.e., SMA, MCPON, CMSAF, SgtMajMC, MCPOCG, should select E9* as their paygrade, as this will cause the program to use the enhanced payscale during their tenure as senior enlisted representative in computing retirement and social security benefits.

The date the member entered active duty for computing total active duty service for retirement purposes. Also referred to as Active Duty Service Date.

The date the member entered active duty for pay purposes. This is synonymous with the Pay Date and Base Pay Entry Date (BPED).

If you leave this field blank, active duty base date will be used.

This date is normally the date of the member's last promotion. However, for purposes of the Military Pension Benefits program, those members who are currently on the selection list for promotion may use a future date of promotion provided that the date does not exceed 3 years beyond the current date, as this is the projection limit for Military Pension Benefits. Members should be aware of the time in grade requirements for their current or future promotion date when selecting a projected retirement date.

Member's using the SeaBAAG or CACO programs must use the date of last promotion as the Date of Rank.

Service Senior Enlisted representatives, i.e., SMA, MCPON, CMSAF, SgtMajMC and MCPOCG, should use their date of appointment to this position vice their date of rank for E9.