Yes, we use the same model. If you go into the Canadian Forces they have a pay scale. You join as a private. There's an expectation that over a certain number of years you'll be promoted, and that within a 20-year period you will be a chief petty officer, like in my case, for example, in retirement. Your pay is adjusted quarterly to that and is paid out for the length of your disability. After five years, you are re-evaluated at what your expectation would have been at that time and what the pay scale is saying, indexed, and then a formula has to be built, of course.
On the base salary issue, when you join as a private or “private trained” you're still kind of in the early stages of your career. It takes about three to four years to get what you call “corporal trained” or “leading-seaman trained”. The difference is $55,000 compared to $23,000, so if you're injured at that younger age and you have to survive on that with a family, it's very difficult.