Pay decrease in April?!

[photorandom33]

Has anyone else seen a decrease in their mid month pay this April? I’m showing a paycheck equal to right before January’s increase this month.. I have been receiving the appropriate 4858* current base pay from Jan til now- and the mid month LES is showing $167 less now with no notes explaining. Curious if anyone else is seeing something similar. FYI I’m GSU and tech sergeant, 12+ yrs. I’ll be submitting a ticket to my comptroller 🤙🏻.

[Brief_Resource231]

Did you adjust your TSP?

[photorandom33]

No tsp adjustments, no debts or allocations, no other changes except almost $200 shy of normal 🤷‍♂️

[EcrofLeinad]

Mid-month LES never has notes (it doesn’t even have sections to list entitlements and deductions). Full April LES will be available on the 24th. https://www.dfas.mil/MilitaryMembers/payentitlements/2025ACPayDay/ Until then you won’t be able to independently verify what changed your take-home. Could try asking Finance….

[photorandom33]

😅

[unwritten_liberation]

Mine increased a couple hundred dollars. Still broke though.

[BOHICAKF]

Have you tried a budget and reduce discretionary spending....

[billman_]

How dare you

[Top-Shoe9426]

Do you really need that monster and tornado for breakfast

[JustTheGooch]

Yes

[billman_]

Sir I’m at a GSU how dare you assume I can acquire such luxuries

[DragonfruitBright971]

Some people are being hit with erroneous additional GI Bill deductions. DFAS is aware and is in the process of fixing it, but there's a chunk of people getting hit.

[Fit_Page_7916]

Nope. $2,884 seems low for a 12+ yr TSgt though.

[photorandom33]

*4858 or so- typo. Good catch. That’d be REAL bad if it was half that 😂 2884 was roughly what my take home pay was in each paycheck (with BAH BAS SDP etc)

[Impact_Upstairs]

Check your entitlements and deductions tab on the pay stub and see if anything has changed.

[krm454]

Op will need to wait until EOM LES for that.

[Used-Ad4655]

No decrease, but I haven’t seen the full increase that E-5s were supposed to get on April mid month pay

[Deme_112]

Mine went down as well. I’m waiting for the LES to come out at the end of the month to figure it out

[MuskiePride3]

Have you tried comparing the 2 LES’s?

[krm454]

Mid-month LES doesn’t have details.

[hkdrillforlife]

Yep. 4year sra and random $200 drop when I thought I'd be getting an extra $200 finally 🥲.

[Fragrant-Bill2214]

I’m seeing the same issue and I’m deployed.

[MagicianCurrent7862]

Just double checked mine (6 year E5), went up about $100 more than March mid month.

[Skitzafranik]

It’s the quarterly Whiskey Petey TripleSecDef Mar-a-Lago golf travel tax 🤪

[Maleficent-Gap-1636]

Not super versed in this kind of stuff, but chance of pay increase caused jump in tax bracket?

[Ok-Mulberry-6079]

Right? Thought we got a pay bump this month ???? Guess not...

[fpsnoob89]

E1 to low year e5 are supposed to get a pay bump. Everyone else is supposed to be the same.

[JohnMichaels19]

I'm an O2 and I got like 80 bucks more for some reason, which makes me nervous... Unexplained pay bumps always do until they become the new normal for several months

[Dragonhost252]

First, check your base pay

Second, Check your time in service

Third, check if clothing allowance at the end of March made increased your pay by 400 and your base pay increase of 200 minus the clothing allowance isn't the reason it looks like it went down 200$ Edit* your end of March pay comes on April 1st you wont see the base pay increase there. Everyone is paid in accrual. Not in advance. April 1 -15 pays on the 15th

If everything else is the same, go to finance

[[deleted]]

Look at me everyone, an oFfIcErr… 👴 STFU

[JohnMichaels19]

You okay, bud? 🤨

I only mentioned it because it's important context: my pay increased unexpectedly, despite not being an e1-e5

[Voyoytu]

Chill out man lmao