It's been over a decade man, and I can't remember all the math. People use to have it down so cold too, trying to figure out if they could scam stuff like disability, which is rampant in government agencies. I fucking loathed people with that mentality, and jokingly tried to convince a female I knew that we should get married because your salary is pretty much doubled just for marriage. Needless to say, I almost get dragged into a courtroom and married that afternoon……so we have free healthcare for a preggo desk jockey that can't even operate a paper weight, probably on their way out with an honorable discharge. With that comes VA benefits and free tuition, including the possibility of disability because so many women end up fracturing their legs or hips in some degree.
Yea, but if you live on base, your housing and food comes out of that. If you're off base, you pay. Either way, you pay, it's just 'subsidized' for you on base. There isn't a stipend unless your married or have kids.
I'd honestly say 10k annually for one child, low balled. Health insurance and costs can very per person, I'll say 10k per family member. So 20k for woman and child, either while active duty or VA.
married with or without kids…..or kids w/o marriage, at least 10k a year? Have no idea, depends on how many dependents you are supporting.
12k a year? Fuck man, that might be what the military spends on each kid in a base daycare, but that could seriously jump to 20k or higher for private daycares, including babysitters/nannies.
I've only met two people that were at this level. One was missing half his brain, and the other had burning carbon fiber destroy his lungs and nervous system in an aviation accident. I'm talking assisted living by your mid-twenties kind of 100%. I'm willingly to say that maybe women can scrape 5k annually if they fucked their legs up, but disability rates are all over the place.
I'd say at least 20k a year.
Don't forget public service and welfare. There's a ton of welfare programs, from food, healthcare, childcare, electric utilities, legal, etc. so add up what you like and there you go. Really haven't thought about it for a couple of years, so my math on this could be really off, especially with disability, because that goes by percentages and family size/status.
Without salary, alimony, child support, and random welfare programs, and if the female goes to college, has the kid while in service, and gets honorably discharged, maybe 65k-ish a year? Really just pulled all this out of the air here. Maybe we can get some real war heroes out there to run through the numbers.