Back in the very early 90's as a reservist, a Private in the Australian Army received about $49 per day of active duty. We had a weekend (2 1/2 days pay) and two week night parades a month of 2 hours and 3 hours which were worth 1/3 and 1/2 a day respectively.
When in the field more than a couple of days (annual training of 16 days) we received Field Allowance ($15 per day). There were a number of other allowances of varying amounts depending on the situation - Deployment Allowance, Hard Living Allowance (when in tents rather than barracks), Separation Allowance (a favourite of the married men), just to name a few.
When I went full time in 94, the base daily rate had climbed to the dizzying heights of AU$56.65. As a regular soldier I received $371.07 per week plus $7.48 Uniform Maintenance Allowance, however immediately paid back $62.30 R&Q (Rations and Quarters), and $18.55 MSBS (can't find what that code is).
As an officer in the reserves, I think the pay was upwards of $90 per day plus allowances (I should have taken the commission they offered me!).
I had heard those soldiers who deployed to Rwanda (and got totally messed up psychologically by the terrible experience of the genocide they witnessed) earnt around $40k each for the 6 month tour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Bat...egiment#Rwanda