---
kind: "unit"
title: "37"
title_heading: "Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services"
key: "ch5/schI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter I"
heading: "Existing Special Pay, Incentive Pay, and Bonus Authorities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/37/ch5-schI"
sections_count: 68
---

# Subchapter I — Existing Special Pay, Incentive Pay, and Bonus Authorities

Title 37 — Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services › Chapter 5 — Special and Incentive Pays

## Sections

- [§301. Incentive pay: hazardous duty](/usc/37/301.md)
- [§301a. Incentive pay: aviation career](/usc/37/301a.md)
- [§301b. Special pay: aviation career officers extending period of active duty](/usc/37/301b.md)
- [§301c. Incentive pay: submarine duty](/usc/37/301c.md)
- [§301d. Multiyear retention bonus: medical officers of the armed forces](/usc/37/301d.md)
- [§301e. Multiyear retention bonus: dental officers of the armed forces](/usc/37/301e.md)
- [§302. Special pay: medical officers of the armed forces](/usc/37/302.md)
- [§302a. Special pay: optometrists](/usc/37/302a.md)
- [§302b. Special pay: dental officers of the armed forces](/usc/37/302b.md)
- [§302c. Special pay: psychologists and nonphysician health care providers](/usc/37/302c.md)
- [§302c–1. Special pay: accession and retention bonuses for psychologists](/usc/37/302c-1.md)
- [§302d. Special pay: accession bonus for registered nurses](/usc/37/302d.md)
- [§302e. Special pay: nurse anesthetists](/usc/37/302e.md)
- [§302f. Special pay: reserve, recalled, or retained health care officers](/usc/37/302f.md)
- [§302g. Special pay: Selected Reserve health care professionals in critically short wartime specialties](/usc/37/302g.md)
- [§302h. Special pay: accession bonus for dental officers](/usc/37/302h.md)
- [§302i. Special pay: pharmacy officers](/usc/37/302i.md)
- [§302j. Special pay: accession bonus for pharmacy officers](/usc/37/302j.md)
- [§302k. Special pay: accession bonus for medical officers in critically short wartime specialties](/usc/37/302k.md)
- [§302l. Special pay: accession bonus for dental specialist officers in critically short wartime specialties](/usc/37/302l.md)
- [§303. Special pay: veterinarians](/usc/37/303.md)
- [§303a. Special pay: general provisions](/usc/37/303a.md)
- [§303b. Waiver of board certification requirements](/usc/37/303b.md)
- [§304. Special pay: diving duty](/usc/37/304.md)
- [§305. Special pay: hardship duty pay](/usc/37/305.md)
- [§305a. Special pay: career sea pay](/usc/37/305a.md)
- [§305b. Special pay: service as member of Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team](/usc/37/305b.md)
- [§306. Special pay: officers holding positions of unusual responsibility and of critical nature](/usc/37/306.md)
- [§306a. Special pay: members assigned to international military headquarters](/usc/37/306a.md)
- [§307. Special pay: special duty assignment pay for enlisted members](/usc/37/307.md)
- [§307a. Special pay: assignment incentive pay](/usc/37/307a.md)
- [§308. Special pay: reenlistment bonus](/usc/37/308.md)
- [§308a. Repealed.](/usc/37/308a.md)
- [§308b. Special pay: reenlistment bonus for members of the Selected Reserve](/usc/37/308b.md)
- [§308c. Special pay: bonus for affiliation or enlistment in the Selected Reserve](/usc/37/308c.md)
- [§308d. Special pay: members of the Selected Reserve assigned to certain high priority units](/usc/37/308d.md)
- [§308e. Repealed.](/usc/37/308e.md)
- [§308f. Repealed.](/usc/37/308f.md)
- [§308g. Special pay: bonus for enlistment in elements of the Ready Reserve other than the Selected Reserve](/usc/37/308g.md)
- [§308h. Special pay: bonus for reenlistment, enlistment, or voluntary extension of enlistment in elements of the Ready Reserve other than the Selected Reserve](/usc/37/308h.md)
- [§308i. Special pay: prior service enlistment bonus](/usc/37/308i.md)
- [§308j. Special pay: affiliation bonus for officers in the Selected Reserve](/usc/37/308j.md)
- [§309. Special pay: enlistment bonus](/usc/37/309.md)
- [§310. Special pay: duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger](/usc/37/310.md)
- [§311. Repealed.](/usc/37/311.md)
- [§312. Special pay: nuclear-qualified officers extending period of active service](/usc/37/312.md)
- [§312a. Repealed.](/usc/37/312a.md)
- [§312b. Special pay: nuclear career accession bonus](/usc/37/312b.md)
- [§312c. Special pay: nuclear career annual incentive bonus](/usc/37/312c.md)
- [§313. Repealed.](/usc/37/313.md)
- [§314. Special pay or bonus: qualified members extending duty at designated locations overseas](/usc/37/314.md)
- [§315. Special pay: engineering and scientific career continuation pay](/usc/37/315.md)
- [§316. Special pay: bonus for members with foreign language proficiency](/usc/37/316.md)
- [§316a. Special pay: incentive pay for members of precommissioning programs pursuing foreign language proficiency](/usc/37/316a.md)
- [§317. Special pay: officers in critical acquisition positions extending period of active duty](/usc/37/317.md)
- [§318. Special pay: special warfare officers extending period of active duty](/usc/37/318.md)
- [§319. Special pay: surface warfare officer continuation pay](/usc/37/319.md)
- [§320. Incentive pay: career enlisted flyers](/usc/37/320.md)
- [§321. Special pay: judge advocate continuation pay](/usc/37/321.md)
- [§322. Renumbered § 354](/usc/37/322.md)
- [§323. Renumbered § 355](/usc/37/323.md)
- [§324. Special pay: accession bonus for new officers in critical skills](/usc/37/324.md)
- [§325. Incentive bonus: savings plan for education expenses and other contingencies](/usc/37/325.md)
- [§326. Incentive bonus: conversion to military occupational specialty to ease personnel shortage](/usc/37/326.md)
- [§327. Incentive bonus: transfer between armed forces](/usc/37/327.md)
- [§328. Repealed.](/usc/37/328.md)
- [§329. Incentive bonus: retired members and reserve component members volunteering for high-demand, low-density assignments](/usc/37/329.md)
- [§330. Special pay: accession bonus for officer candidates](/usc/37/330.md)