There's no shortage of third-party military pay calculators online, and the numbers they produce should always be treated as rough estimates. For anything you're actually planning around, use the official sources:
- DFAS (Defense Finance and Accounting Service) — the authoritative source for your actual pay and retirement calculations, since they have your real pay history on file.
- myPay — your direct portal for current and historical pay statements.
- Your service branch's personnel finance office — for retirement-specific questions that a general calculator can't answer (like how your specific years of service, retirement system, and any special pays factor in).
See also our overview of how final retirement pay is calculated for the underlying formula.
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