Cost of training a soldier in WWII?`

[Perturabo]

Does anyone know how much it was?

I only found 27,000$ for a single pilot in US army in Lost Sentry.
http://www.lonesentry.com/blog/the-catalina-kids.html

[TulliusDetritus]

He he, I am pretty certain official agencies had to calculte this. But where's the information?

Soldier:

Food + clothes + wages

Instruction:

water + electricity + rent (if any) of the camp + instructors's wages

Various stuff:

manufactured goods (ammunition, weapons, vehicles) + fuel

etc etc etc

A US Navy pilot (CVs operations) had to be really expensive: training time => 2 years IIRC

It has to be the cost of a prison inmate x5? x6? x10? [:D]

[Aurelian]

Well, in Ukraine in 1943, you got conscripted, got a rifle and a helmet, and sent west.
 
Doesn't get much cheaper than that.
 
Well, it can. If you could drive a tractor, you were drafted as a tank commander.

[TulliusDetritus]

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

Doesn't get much cheaper than that.

This guy disagrees [:D]

Anyway to compare the different branches of the military we should know let's say the cost per month or week (different time of training). If $27.000 were the cost of a US Naval pilot (CVs) we would have 27.000 / 24 [months] = $1.125 per month.

And the most common civilians's income fell below $3.600 per year (300 per month).

[Saint Ruth]

I read somewhere that the costs to train an Italian soldier was Folgore Parachute Brigade was 45 times the cost to train a regular Italian soldier (though that regular training was probably the similar to the Ukrainian mentioned above).

[KG Erwin]

Hmm, I never considered this before, but I venture to guess that training a US Marine had to get fairly expensive in 1944-45, considering the amphibious training and variety of weapons a Marine had to master, including not only the small arms but explosives & flamethrowers. I would also guess that training an engineer to do his tasks would be more expensive than your average rifleman. I've never seen any actual cost calculations.