A Leave and Earnings Statement, generally referred to as an LES, is a document given on a monthly basis to members of the United States military which documents their pay and leave status on a monthly basis.
Employees in the civil service receive a similar document each pay period, but it is instead called a Statement of Earnings and Leave.
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Famous quotes containing the words leave, earnings and/or statement:
“Come leave your tears: a brief farewell. The beast
With many heads butts me away.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
“He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote ... takes on the character of divine revelation.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)