---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 U.S.C. § 1010"
title: "37"
title_heading: "Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services"
number: "1010"
heading: "Commissioned officers: promotions; effective date for pay and allowances"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/37/1010"
units:
  - "Chapter 19 — Administration"
---

# §1010. Commissioned officers: promotions; effective date for pay and allowances


An [officer](/usc/37/101.md?p=11) of a uniformed service who is promoted to a [grade](/usc/37/101.md?p=15) above second lieutenant or ensign is entitled to the [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) and allowances of the [grade](/usc/37/101.md?p=15) to which promoted on the effective date of the promotion.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title IV, § 403(c), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2905; amended Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title X, § 1071(c)(8), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2401.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–364 substituted “promotions” for “promotion” in section catchline.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 15, 1981, but the authority to prescribe regulations under this section effective on Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701 of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 101 of Title 10, Armed Forces.