LBB4 has a nice list as to Mercenary Payrolls. Which is what I still use. Slight changes are mine, because I use a slightly different rank structure so I will add the Pay grade equivalent, in case you want to use a different Rank structure.
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">Pay Grade Rank Monthly Salary Shares
E-1 Private 300 1
E-2 Lance Corporal 400 2
E-3 Corporal 450 3
E-4 Lance Sergeant 500 3
E-5 Sergeant 550 4
E-6 Gunnery Sergeant 600 4
E-7 Leading Sergeant 700 5
E-8 First Sergeant 800 6
E-9 Sergeant Major 1000 7
O-1 Second Lieutenant 1000 5
O-2 First Lieutenant 1200 6
O-3 Captain 1400 7
O-4 Major 1600 8
O-5 Lt. Colonel 1800 9
O-6 Colonel 2000 10</pre>[/QUOTE]That, with the addition of the Pay Grade, is the chart from LBB4.
Now my interpretation and similar to real world use of Troops. An E-1 would be a raw recruit. An E-2 is a typical Rifleman. An E-3 is a Heavy Weapon Specialist or other Specialist. An E-4 to E-5 is a Fire Team Leader. An E-5 to E-6 is a Squad Leader. An E-6 would also be the Section Sergeant. Usually an E-7 is a Platoon Sergeant, E-8 is a Company First Sergeant, and E-9 is Batalion or higher, Sergeant Major.
A Platoon is lead by a Lieutenant (First or Second). A Company is commanded by a Captian or a Major, (Usually a Captain) a Batalion is usually commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel. Regiments and Brigades are usually commanded by Colonels. (Though an Independent Brigade command is usually a Brigadier General.) Now units higher than a Platoon will usually have two or more officers. A Company, in Addition to the Company Commander will usually have an Executive Officer who is a Lieutenant. Batalion XO being a Major. Regiment and Brigade is usually a LTC. At Batalion level and higher there will usually be Staff Officers, generally a Rank below the XO.
So calculating the pay for a Mercenary unit should be fairly straightforward.
Now the column for shares is used as follows. Once the ticket is determined, the salaries are deducted, plus other expenses, (ammunition expenditures, maintenance, replacing combat equipment losses, etc.) are also deducted. Then the balance (the profit) is divided in half. Half is paid to the Unit commander and the units financial backers. Then total all the shares by the surviving members of the unit and divide the remaining 50% of the profit by that number. Each surviving member of the unit receives a bonus equal to their number of shares.
For example, a Platoon of 35 people organized as follows.
3 Squads of 2 Fire Teams each. Each organized as follows. One Fire Team led by an E-6 (Also the Squad Leader) per Squad, the other Fire Team led by an E-5. One member of each Fire Team being a Raw Recruit (E-1), one Rifleman (E-2), One Heavy Weapons Trooper (E-4). So your first three squads would each have 2 x E-1, 2 x E-2, 2x E-4 one E-5 and one E-6 or 6 x E-1, 6 x E-2, 6 x E-4, 3 x E-5 and 3 x E-6 total for all three Squads.
The Fourth Squad, in this platoon is a Heavy Weapons Squad. Organized as 3 Weapons Specialists and a Team leader, again one of the team leaders is the Squad Leader. So the Weapons Squad is 6 x E-4, 1xE-5 and 1x E-6.
The Platoon is led by a 1st Lieutenant, who is assited by an E-7 and also has a Medic (E-4). (One Rifleman in each squad should also have some First Aid Training, (Combat Lifesaver)).
So the Platoon would consist of 1 x O-2, 1 x E-7, 4 x E-6, 4 x E-5, 13 E-4, 6 x E-2, 6 x E-1.
A Total Salary in this case is Cr16100. If a Mercenary Cruiser is part of the Unit's equipment then you also have the Cruiser's Crew Salary.
Number of Shares, assuming everyone survives, is 100.
Many of the CT Mercenary tickets said double salaries would be paid. In those cases the first salary is to the Unit payroll the second is the rest of the overhead and profit.
For example paying this unit being paid KCr780 for a 6 month Security ticket. With a Mercenary Cruiser (the Javelin being cited here) Crew of Pilot, Astrogator, Engineer, 1 Assistant Engineer, 2 Drive Hands, 4 Gunners, 2 Small Boat Pilots, 2 Small Craft Gunners, and a Ship's Doctor. Cruiser Crew Salary is Cr34,000 Per month.
Total Salary is Cr50,100 per month.
If KCr200 is spent on expenditures, and KCr300.6 is spent on Salaries. That leaves KCr279.4 as Profit. KCr139.7 is split between the Unit's Financial backers and KCr139.7 is divided as shares. 1 share having the value, assuming everyone survives, Cr1397. So each Squad Leader, for example, would earn Cr3600 salary for the 6 months and a bonus of Cr5588 for a total 6 Month earnings of Cr9,188. The Platoon Commander earns Cr15,582 over the same 6 month period plus his part of the financing arrangement of the other half of the profits. (So if the entire unit was funded out of pocket then he earns an additional Cr139,700, or if the entire unit was funded on some other business arrangement then he might get 25% of that KCr139.7 or even less.)
Now that is the LBB4 answer, EA-6 has a different pay scale for Mercenaries which doesn't include shares.
Does that answer the question?
