Master sailor

Master sailor,

or sailor first class depending on seniority. However, the process to be appointed is very similar to that of a promotion, and holding the appointment of master sailor is a prerequisite to promotion to PO2.

A contributing factor to the confusion of 'appointment' vs 'promotion' is that when promoted/appointed to master seaman, the sailor enters a new pay scale, unlike appointment to sailor second class, wherein the sailor has simply entered a new incentive level within the pay scale for ordinary seaman.^{[citation needed]}

A master sailor is equal to a master corporal of the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force.

The rank of master sailor is sometimes referred to as "master killick", from "killick", the slang for sailor first class. Those personnel junior to the master sailor, however, are advised to refrain from addressing the holder by that term.

In September 2020 the name of the rank was changed from master seaman to master sailor as part of a change to gender-neutral rank names.^[1]

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