 If you're thinking about joining the military, you're probably wondering what do I do about my bills and my family? Am I even going to get paid during training because I have responsibilities that I need to take care of? If you've ever wondered that, then do not worry because you are definitely not alone. First things first, do you get paid at basic training? The answer is yes. How often do I get paid at basic training? Well when you join the military, you'll get paid on the first and fifteenth of every single month. But when you first arrive to basic training, it might take up to four weeks until you receive your first full paycheck. It all depends on what part of the pay cycle you end up showing up to BMT at. Now the main question that all of you guys want to know, how much am I going to get paid at basic training? Well, depending on a few factors, this can be quite complicated. But you guys want to know what isn't complicated? Sandbox, the sponsor of today's video. I actually used Sandbox when McKenna was at basic training just a few months ago, so this isn't just coming to you as a sponsored video, it's also coming to you as somebody that had a loved one at basic training that used this application and it helped tremendously. Sandbox is a mobile app and website that allows you to send letters to loved ones while in basic training as simple as sending an email or a text. So if you're watching this and you're going to be leaving for basic training soon or sometime in the future, be sure to share this with your friends and family. And here are five reasons why. Ease of use. Sending a letter is as easy as sending a text message or email, no more post office runs. Fast shipping. Every single letter that I sent to McKenna arrived two days after I sent it. Return envelopes. So not only does the letter that you send include your letter that you wrote, but it also includes a return envelope that is pre-addressed and all you have to do is add a stamp. Tracking. Not only can you track the envelope that you sent, but you can also track the return envelope that the trainee is mailing back. That was personally my favorite feature. Brilliant! Brilliant! Costs. It costs less than $4 per letter and that's including a picture with every single letter being sent. Literally so much benefit for less than $4 a letter. So if you are interested in Sandbox, there will be a link in the description that you can go and check out more information on their website. You can also share it with your friends and family so they can write to you quickly and efficiently while you are in training and it'll just make everybody's life easier. Unfortunately, unlike Sandbox, getting paid at BMT is a lot more hectic and complicated. Thankfully, I wrote out what I wanted to say in this video before I shot this video because I was going to type out all the different things that go into your paycheck. The whole point of this video is to tell you guys how much you're going to get paid at basic training. Not to tell you guys a full breakdown of what all goes into your paycheck. Plus, I already have two videos on this channel that break that down whether you're married or single. So I'm going to break this down to two different categories. Joining as an E1 and joining as an E3. You can also join as an E2. I figured you can look at the numbers. E2 must be in between that, which is correct. If you're joining as an E2, like my wife McKenna did, then you can just estimate it's going to be halfway in between. So if you're single joining the military, you can expect as an E1 to be getting paid around $1,400 a month. If you divide that by two, that comes out to about $700 every two weeks or the first in the 15th when you'll be getting paid. If you're single and joining as an E3, you're looking at about $1,700 a month, which if you divide that by two, you're going to get about $850 a paycheck on the first and 15th. Now if you're married, you're going to make more than somebody that's single because you're going to be getting what is called BAH or Basic Allowance for Housing. So if you're married and joining the military and you want to estimate about how much you're going to be making while you're at basic training, all you have to do is go online and Google BAH Calculator and you're going to search the location of where your family is going to be living while you're at basic training. So it's going to have you put in the rank and the location and then it's going to kick out how much per month you're going to make for that. So basically you're going to take $1,400 for an E1 or $1,700 for an E3. And then you're going to add your BAH, whatever that is for the location that your spouse or spouse and kids are going to be living. You'll divide that by two to figure out about how much you're going to be making on the first and 15th every single month. But if you guys are interested in single or military pay breakdown videos, that's what those videos over there are for.