i cannot say what really is tHe fixed salaries of a sea merchant as per internet answer highest salary is 4,500 USD its for the captain position last time i talk to a seaman he told me when you are base in a foreign agency or company for the oiler ship it will be 12,000 USD again for the captain now i think the agencies here in the Philippines cut a very high amount of salary money to their sea merchants in fairness to the agencies its legal what their doing if you do not like what your agencies giving you you better find another agencies and for the side of our filipino sea merchants you must accept that you are a filipino and foreign country consider that we Filipinos and that's the truth and we cannot blame them BeCause filipino are really evil user and magnanakaw/kawatan!
He was an able seaman for 30 years, then he retired from the merchant navy.
AB Seaman (Able Bodied)
an able bodied seaman makes as much as $ 320.00 US per day
An Able Seaman is an experienced seaman in the upperdeck department who assists the officer on watch, steers the ship and keeps gangway watch; one grade higher than the beginning grade of ordinary seaman; AB for short; AB was used apparently instead of AS to avoid confusion with OS which stands for ordinary seaman
About $40 a month
Popeye was a "Seaman AB" (Able Bodied) .
pay scale
An able rating is a seaman in the Royal Navy who is qualified to perform certain duties of seamanship.
Pay scales are: PGT Pay Scale 9300-34800, Grade Pay 4800 TGT Pay Scale 9300-34800, Grade Pay 4600
Despite the rookie pay scale, Cam Newton was able to get a lucrative contract. (Its about football :D )
equal to the pay scale of brigadier
What kinda ship? Deck hands, ordinary seaman, able bodied seaman, stewards, etc, etc, etc.