Recruitment, Ranks and Pay
The evidence for auxiliary ranks and pay is scant, even less than the patchy evidence for their legionary counterparts. The available data may be summarised as follows:
| Pay scale (as multiple of basic) |
Cohors infantry rank (in ascending order) |
Amount (denarii) |
XXX | Ala rank (in ascending order) |
Amount (denarii) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (caligati = "rankers") | pedes (infantryman) | 188 | gregalis (ala cavalryman) | 263 | |
| 1.5 (sesquiplicarii = "one-and-half-pay men") | tesserarius (corporal) | 282 | sesquiplicarius (corporal) | 395 | |
| 2 (duplicarii = "double-pay men") | signifer (centuria standard-bearer) optio (centurion's deputy) vexillarius (cohort standard-bearer) |
376 | signifer (turma standard-bearer) curator? (decurion's deputy) vexillarius (ala standard-bearer) |
526 | |
| Over 5 | centurio (centurion = centuria commander) centurio princeps (chief centurion) beneficiarius? (deputy cohort commander) |
940 + | decurio (decurion = turma commander) decurio princeps (chief decurion) beneficiarius? (deputy ala commander) |
1,315 + | |
| 50 | praefectus or tribunus (cohort commander) | 9,400 | praefectus or tribunus (ala commander) | 13,150 |
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