Pay at that time was pretty meager. It was not quite half of what the current pay is today. An example, a PFC I knew made 30% more than I was I made as a Cpl ten years before. But for most of the 90s the pay seldom kept up with inflation and your annual increase on your anniversary date was usualy 15 to 20 a month increase which sucked.
Off of memory in the early 90s;
Pvt was about 738 a month
PFC was about 820
Lance Cpl was about 900 a month
Cpl was about 1200 a month
Of course these numbers changed each year and the pay amount would also increase on the anniversary of your enlistment, but those are close.
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