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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op checking back in.  FWIW the three families I am referring to have 2, 3 and 3 kids respectively, and the parents are around 40yrs old.  So I assume they are higher ranking officers with years of military experience.  One sometimes comes to school in what appears to be a flight suit type uniform.

One has a spouse that is a teacher, another has a HR type role for a Fed agency, the third I have no idea.  I genuinely have no clue what officers make, I clearly don't know their family or personal financial situation.  And those details are none of my business.  It just surprised me to see the only military parents in my kids classes all driving such expensive vehicles.  I didn't know if they got free or subsidized housing, which would be huge.  Or that maybe officer can make more than I would have guessed.  The only ~$40yo [b]parents[/b] (not young people or singles) we know with multiple kids that drive $100K cars are lawyers or doctors  :lol:  So our perspective is clearly bias. [/quote]

If they are in a flight suit they are higher level officers and probably doing very well.  They also probably get special duty pay.[/quote]

Also, a higher level officer with kids in this area gets just under 4k a month in base allocated housing allowance to put toward their housing costs. That's on top of pay. You can see how the higher level officer plus GS-14 wife couple would be doing fine.

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Don't they get more money for each kid they have?[/quote]

No.   The housing allowance for a single person is slightly lower than the housing allowance for someone with one or more dependents.

For example, an E4 in the DC area gets $2, 124 in housing allowance.   If he has a dependent (spouse, kids) he gets $2,655.   It doesn't matter if he has only one dependent, or if he has 5 dependents-he gets the same amount.[/quote]

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