# 2024-102 Pay and Benefits, Pilot's Pay and Promotion

Case summary

F&R Date: 2025-12-08

The grievor disputed the new pay structure for the Pilot occupation and the way it was implemented. He explained that he would not have accepted a promotion to Major had he known how his new rate of pay would have been affected; noting that he made the decision to accept a promotion based on misleading information provided to him over a year prior. The grievor also submitted that he had not been properly compensated for the 2018-2020 economic increase. As redress, the grievor requested an additional four Pay Increments (PI) retroactive to the date of his promotion to Major. 

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 table was based on the established PI calculation method found in Chief of the Defence Staff Order 030/21 while his promotion was in accordance with Compensation and Benefits Instructions for the Canadian Forces (CBI) 204.04.

The Committee found that grievor had been properly compensated for the 2018-2020 economic increase as he had received both a lump sum payment and his rate of pay was inclusive of the economic increase when it was converted to the new Pilot pay table. 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.