---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 U.S.C. § 207"
title: "37"
title_heading: "Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services"
number: "207"
heading: "Band leaders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/37/207"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Basic Pay"
---

# §207. Band leaders

- (a) The leader of the Army Band is entitled to the basic [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) of a captain in the Army.
- (b) The leader of the [United States](/usc/37/101.md?p=1-A) Navy Band is entitled to the basic [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) of a lieutenant in the Navy.
- (c) A [member](/usc/37/101.md?p=23) of the Marine Corps who is appointed as director or assistant director of the [United States](/usc/37/101.md?p=1-A) Marine Band under [section 8287 of title 10](/usc/10/8287.md) is entitled, while serving thereunder, only to the basic [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) of an [officer](/usc/37/101.md?p=11) in the [grade](/usc/37/101.md?p=15) in which he is serving. However, his basic [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) may not be less that to which he was entitled at the time of his appointment under that section.
- (d) The leader of the Naval Academy Band is entitled to the basic [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) of the [grade](/usc/37/101.md?p=15) the Secretary of the Navy prescribes. The second leader is entitled to the basic [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) of a [warrant officer](/usc/37/101.md?p=13), W–1.
- (e) The director of the Coast Guard Band is entitled to the basic [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) of an [officer](/usc/37/101.md?p=11) in the [grade](/usc/37/101.md?p=15) in which he is serving. However, his basic [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) may not be less than that to which he was entitled at the time of his appointment as director.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–649, Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 460; Pub. L. 89–189, § 2, Sept. 17, 1965, 79 Stat. 820; Pub. L. 95–551, § 3(b)(1), Oct. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 2069; Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 809(m)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1843.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 207(a) | 10:3536(b) (as applicable to basic pay). | [None.] |
| 207(b) | 10:4338(a) (as applicable to basic pay). | [None.] |
| 207(c) | 10:6221(b) (as applicable to basic pay). | [None.] |
| 207(d) | 10:6222(e) (as applicable to basic pay). | [None.] |
| 207(e) | 10:6969(b) (less last sentence, as applicable to basic pay). | [None.] |

In subsection (a), the last 22 words of section 3536(b) of title 10 are omitted as covered by section 205 of this revised title.

In subsection (b), the last sentence of section 4338(a) of title 10 is omitted as covered by section 205 of this revised title.

In subsection (c), the last 22 words of section 6221(b) of title 10 are omitted as covered by section 205 of this revised title.

In subsection (e), the 2d sentence of section 6969(b) of title 10 is omitted as covered by section 205 of this revised title.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–232 substituted “section 8287 of title 10” for “section 6222 of title 10”.

1978—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–551 redesignated former subsec. (c) as (b). Former subsec. (b), which provided that the director of music at the United States Military Academy be entitled to the basic pay of a commissioned officer of the rank prescribed for the director by the Secretary of the Army, was struck out.

Subsecs. (c) to (e). Pub. L. 95–551 redesignated former subsecs. (d) to (f) as (c) to (e), respectively.

Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 95–551 redesignated former subsec. (f) as (e).

1965—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 89–189 added subsec. (f).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.