---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2124"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2124"
heading: "Promotions; pay and allowances"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2124"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 21 — Personnel; Officers"
  - "Subchapter I — Appointment and Promotion"
---

# §2124. Promotions; pay and allowances


An officer who is promoted under [section 2121 of this title](/usc/14/2121.md) shall be entitled to the pay and allowances of the grade to which promoted from his date of rank in such grade.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 182, § 274; renumbered § 2124 and amended Pub. L. 115–282, title I, §§ 112(b), 123(b)(2), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216, 4240.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282, § 123(b)(2), substituted “section 2121” for “section 271”.

Pub. L. 115–282, § 112(b), renumbered section 274 of this title as this section.