# 2024-094 Pay and Benefits, Pilot's Pay and Promotion

Case summary

F&R Date: 2025-10-17

The grievor disputed his rate of pay on promotion to the rank of Major following the implementation of a new pay structure for the Pilot occupation. As the 2018-2020 economic increase was approved by the Treasury Board separately from the rates established in the new Pilot pay tables, the grievor submitted that he had not been properly compensated for the economic increase. Additionally, he contended that the mechanism by which he was converted to the new Pilot pay tables was inequitable, as only Pilots who were promoted prior to 1 April 2021 were converted per conversion charts in Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) Order 030/21 rather than per Compensation and Benefits Instructions for the Canadian Forces (CBI) 204.04. As redress, the grievor requested an additional three Pay Increments (PI) retroactive to his promotion to Major in addition to retroactive application of the 2018-2020 economic increase. 

The Director General Compensation and Benefits, acting as Initial Authority (IA), denied redress. The IA stated that the conversion charts were developed to address both the delay in implementing the new Pilot pay rates and the severance of the economic increase. The IA confirmed that the grievor had been properly compensated for the 2018-2020 economic increase and that his conversion to the new Pilot pay tables was based on the established PI calculation method found in CDS Order 030/21 while his promotion was in accordance with CBI 204.04. 

The Committee found that grievor had been properly compensated for the 2018-2020 economic increase as his rate of pay was inclusive of the economic increase when it was converted to the new Pilot pay tables. The Committee further found that the grievor's rate of pay upon promotion was established in accordance with CBI 204.04 and he had thus not been aggrieved as his rate of pay did not decrease. The Committee recommended that the Final Authority not afford the grievor redress.