Military Wages

Can someone please quantify the effect of military wage rates?

I haven't played for a long long time, and one of the new things is this ability to pay your military a rate other than the standard. The guide says your military will fight "better" if paid higher. However, I am wondering a couple things:

1) How fast does offense/defense increase relative to the military wage. Is it a straight progression or does the first extra 1% give more bonus than the next extra 1%?

2) Generally speaking, what do warring type provinces pay their troops?

I looked thru the entire forum for posts on Military Wage and only found one, which did not answer these questions.

Thanks in advance for your help!
- The Humble Lord Hitman

1) It probably takes something like 24 hours to go from 100% to 200% don't have any specific numbers though, maybe someone else has. Pretty sure it is straight progression, 200% is +7.6% ME.

2) 200%.

1) dont remember really.. i think 150 is ~104.5.. its posted here somewhere..
2) most people usually run 200%.. its probably far from always the best thing to do in war.. but meh..

It's not a straight progression. It is not far off of that though.

Increasing wage rates increases your ME. 200% will increase ME about 7% over 48 hrs.

And, if I understand your question #1, since increased wages increases ME, there is not a compounding factor involved between 150% and 200%. It is a straight line increase. I.E., if 150% would increase ME to 3.5% and your offense/defense points are otherwise 10,000, at 150%, your o/d would be 10,350 points. And, if you increased wages to 200%, your o/d would be 10,700 points.

As to question #2, I would imagine that would depend on many circumstances for any knowlegable prov. If you have sufficient cash to pay 200% and ran that as part of your strat, then if and when cash got short, you might drop your payrates for a few hours or longer. Dropping payrates for a few hours will not drastically change your ME, provided you raise it right back.

Hope that answers your questions.