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Check the official SAF NSF monthly allowance from rank allowance plus vocation allowance, then compare it with the amount shown in OneNS.
Expected monthly allowance
CMPB lists SAF NSF allowance as rank allowance plus vocation allowance. Vocation allowance is the official term for what many people still call combat or risk pay.
Estimated official allowance
$790 per month
REC / PTE rank allowance $715 + Service / Technical vocation allowance $75.
Rank allowance
$715
Recruit or Private
Vocation allowance
$75
Service and Technical vocations
Expected total
$790
Before any OneNS timing, rank, or pro-rating issue.
How to use this
- Select your rank and the closest vocation or posting name.
- Compare against the OneNS payslip amount only after checking whether the month is pro-rated.
- Use official OneNS, CMPB, or MINDEF records as the final source if the number looks wrong.
Admin / support / technical
Mapped to S/N 1: Service and Technical vocations ($75 vocation allowance).
Use the service and technical band for non-combatant service or technical appointments unless your official posting or payslip says otherwise.
Source-of-truth check
- Data source
- CMPB Monthly allowance
- Last checked
- 2026-05-11
- CMPB page updated
- 2025-07-24
- Final authority
- OneNS payslip and official MINDEF records
Combat allowance was replaced by vocation allowance from 1 Mar 2020. This page embeds the checked CMPB table statically instead of scraping official sites at runtime.