Hey, @BretDevereaux, can you write something about (or send a link to) historical inequality in pay between different ranks of soldiers?
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The assumption Speidel is making, by the by, is that the ratio was constant, and so raises in army pay over time bumped everyone by the same percentage and thus that he can use some relatively lay pay figures (c. 235-8) and then(because we know changes in regular soldier pay...
...he can back-computer centurion pay at earlier periods along a constant ratio. I generally buy the argument (and he has some good supporting evidence) but it is important to know where the guesswork lies in terms of our actual pay data.
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But his numbers are that a regular soldier in the legions got 900HS per year. An auxiliary gets 5/6ths of that. There are then regular soldiers who are 1.5x and 2x pay. Lowest ranking centurion is 15x, primus ordo is 30x, primus pilus is 60x.
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Note that the discharge/retirement payment (the praemium) seems to have been a multiple of pay-at-discharge so the retirement bonus for a highly ranked centurion could be truly massive.
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