The contract also provides an increase of $595 in longevity pay.

Increases in longevity pay and other benefits will raise the wages even higher.

That standard is now being challenged at all levels, from wash-up time to longevity pay.

All officers receive longevity pay and pilots are given several additional allowances.

In 1882, he made a claim for additional longevity pay, which was referred to the Court of Claims.

On the contract's last day, the police will receive 1.5 percent not as an across-the-board raise, but for other increases, like longevity pay.

They ought to all draw longevity pay."

The contention of the appellant is that upon these enactments he is entitled to what is known as "longevity pay."

This additional funding will go towards fact of life increases such as longevity pay, promotions, life changes, or employer contributions to retirement pay accounts.

Later, the midshipmen were informed that their two years spent in training and active service as a pilot didn't count towards seniority, longevity pay or retirement benefits.

With longevity pay, holiday pay, night shift differential and other non-guaranteed additions, the total annual compensation for officers receiving top pay will be approximately $90,829.

The longevity pay raises mean a wage increase of more than 7.5 percent for officers with more than five years on the job, P.B.A. officials said.

It also covers increases in longevity pay, in contributions to the officers' welfare fund and to a legal defense fund to cover costs when officers are sued.

The accounting officers of the Treasury had uniformly held that longevity pay to retired officers was not authorized by 1593 of the Revised Statutes.

In addition, paid vacation has been increased to nine weeks from eight in the third year of the new pact and extra "longevity pay" will now begin after only five years' employment instead of 10.

Mr. Cosgrove makes nearly $120,000 a year, including salary, overtime, longevity pay and fees from Suffolk County Community College, where he teaches courses in criminal justice and governmental administration.

New York City sanitation workers and the Koch administration agreed yesterday to a tentative three-year contract that calls for three annual 6 percent salary increases, raises in longevity pay and improved disability benefits.

The contention of the United States is that longevity pay is only given to officers on the active list of the navy, and not to retired officers, to which latter class the appellant belongs.

Another point of contention is longevity pay, which would increase by more than $800,000 a year, beginning in 2003, under the proposed contract, because of a provision crediting time served in other departments toward eligibility for such pay.

Among the items in question is a two-week payroll delay for 10,000 county employees that would save $11.8 million, and a cut in longevity pay funds for county workers saving $8.5 million, both of which would require union approval.

The statute allowing longevity pay to officers of the army, 1262, Rev.Stat., declared that there should be allowed and paid to all officers below the rank of brigadier general ten percent of their current yearly pay for every term of five years' service, but it did not restrict the increased pay to officers in active service.

Runkle appealed to the Supreme Court, which found in his favor, ruling that Runkle was never legally dismissed from the army, and was entitled to his longevity pay, as well as that which he already received for his regular pay, both before and after the order of Secretary Belknap was revoked.