Evaluating Military Compensation

Author : Carla Tighe Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : United States
ISBN : PURD:32754075491856

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Evaluating Military Compensation by Carla Tighe Murray Pdf

Introduction and summary. Defining military compensation ; Comparing military and civilian compensation ; Factors that complicate military-civilian comparisons -- Military pay, promotions, and rank -- Estimates of military compensation. Total compensation for enlisted personnel by years of experience ; Cash earnings for selected occupations -- Comparing increases in military and civilian pay. The "gap" between changes in basic pay and civilian earnings ; Issues in using the "pay gap" to evaluate military compensation ; Increases in regular military compensation versus the employment cost index -- Comparing levels of military and civilian pay. Cash compensation ; Noncash and deferred benefits ; General limitations of military-civilian comparisons -- Linking military compensation to recruiting and retention. Effectiveness of using pay to resolve occupational shortages or surpluses ; Effects of cash and noncash compensation on recruiting and retention -- Options to increase the visibility and efficiency of military compensation. Integrating the components of total compensation ; Increasing cash relative to noncash compensation -- Appendix A: Total compensation for the median enlisted member -- Appendix B: How pay changes with deployment -- Appendix C: Types of occupation- or skills-based compensation.

Author : Beth J. Asch,John T. Warner
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 0833015443

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A Theory of Military Compensation and Personnel Policy by Beth J. Asch,John T. Warner Pdf

The purpose of this study is to develop a unified model that will permit an analysis of all the various issues relating to the military compensation system. This report develops a theoretical framework that allows an evaluation of the militarv pay and retirement system. Our analysis aims at addressing the traditional macroeconomic questions and two additional microeconomic questions that have received little attention: Does the system motivate personnel to work hard and effectively? and Does the system promote the best person/job/rank matches?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Civil service
ISBN : OCLC:697844350

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Analysis of Federal Civilian and Military Compensation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brenda S. Farrell
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781437931686

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Military Personnel by Brenda S. Farrell Pdf

Compares pay and benefits provided to members of the Armed Forces (AF) with that of comparably situated private-sector employees to assess how the differences in pay and benefits affect recruiting and retention of members of the AF. The objectives were to: (1) assess total military compensation for active duty officers and for enlisted personnel; (2) compare private-sector pay and benefits for civilians of similar age, educ., and experience with similar job responsibilities and working conditions of officers and enlisted personnel of the AF; and (3) assess the 10th QRMC recommendation to include regular military compensation and select benefits when comparing military and civilian compensation to ascertain if it is appropriate.

Author : Beth J. Asch,Michael G. Mattock,Patricia K. Tong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1977405835

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Analysis of a Time-In-Grade Pay Table for Military Personnel and Policy Alternatives by Beth J. Asch,Michael G. Mattock,Patricia K. Tong Pdf

Federal law mandates that every four years the Secretary of Defense conduct an assessment of the military compensation system, resulting in a Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (QRMC). In response to this request articulated in Section 603 of the Senate Armed Services Committee version of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019, the 13th QRMC is providing an assessment of the effects of a time-in-grade pay table for military personnel, particularly on readiness. A time-in-grade pay table would set pay based on pay grade and years of service within a grade, in contrast to the current time-in-service pay table, which sets pay based on pay grade and years of service inthe military.

Author : Beth J. Asch
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015075639552

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Assessing Compensation Reform by Beth J. Asch Pdf

Military compensation is a pillar of the all-volunteer force. It is a fundamental policy tool for attracting and retaining personnel, and its structure-and the incentives implied by its structure-can affect U.S. service members' willingness to join, exert effort, demonstrate their leadership potential, remain in the military, and, eventually, exit the military at an appropriate time. Military compensation is a composite of current pay and allowances, special and incentive pays, health benefits, disability benefits, retirement benefits, and other benefits. Its importance to the readiness and morale of the force is such that it is reviewed every four years to determine whether it is adequate to meet the U.S. military's objectives. To inform the 10th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation, this monograph presents an in-depth examination of the mix and structure of the U.S. military's current retirement-benefit system and several policy alternatives. The study included the development of a model that was estimated and used to run a series of simulations based on active-duty and reserve personnel data to track the careers and potential decisionmaking of military personnel across the services. The simulation results were then assessed in terms of their cost-effectiveness and ability to meet the services' expectations for accession, retention, and career mobility.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428933675

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Military personnel DOD needs to improve the transparency and reassess the reasonableness, appropriateness, affordability, and sustainability of its military compensation system : report to congressional committees. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carla Tighe Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:1001318976

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Assessing Pay and Benefits for Military Personnel by Carla Tighe Murray Pdf

Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977956564

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Military Compensation by United States Government Accountability Office Pdf

PCS involves moving military personnel to new locations and is a key tool used by the military services to fill assignments both in the United States and overseas. In fiscal year 2014, DOD obligated $4.3 billion for approximately 650,000 servicemember PCS moves. Senate Report 113-176 included a provision for GAO to report on aspects of the PCS program. This report evaluates the extent to which (1) PCS per-move costs have changed since 2001, (2) military personnel are meeting time-on-station requirements, and (3) OSD's September 2014 study on increasing time-on-station addressed the elements in Senate Report 112-196 and used approaches consistent with generally accepted research standards. GAO analyzed PCS cost and move data for fiscal years 2001 through 2014 using fiscal year 2014 dollars; obtained and analyzed available time-on-station data; reviewed OSD's September 2014 report to Congress on increasing time-on-station; and interviewed OSD and service officials.

Author : Beth J. Asch,Michael G. Mattock,Troy D. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1977405851

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Setting the Level and Annual Adjustment of Military Pay by Beth J. Asch,Michael G. Mattock,Troy D. Smith Pdf

Every four years, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) commissions a review of the military compensation system. Since the 9th such commission reporting in 2002, the benchmark for setting the level of military pay has been at about the 70th percentile of earnings for similar civilians given the unusual demands and arduous nature of military service. The 70th percentile benchmark was based on analysis from the 1990s indicating that pay at around this level had historically been necessary to enable the military to recruit and retain the quality and quantity of personnel required. In addition, by law, the annual increase in military basic pay is guided by changes in the Employment Cost Index (ECI), a measure of the growth in private-sector employment costs; research from the early 1990s suggested that an alternative to the ECI, the Defense Employment Cost Index (DECI), would be more relevant to military personnel. The authors of this report provide input on the setting of the level of military pay, the relevance of the 70th percentile, and the use of the DECI versus the ECI in setting the annual adjustment to military pay. They find that current military pay may be too high, since recruit quality today exceeds DoD's stated requirements, and, further, quality and retention both exceed the levels observed during the late 1980s and mid-1990s, when the 70th percentile was established. However, the 70th percentile may be too low a benchmark, because there are reasons to believe that the recruiting environment is more difficult than it was in earlier periods. Figures of around the 75th to 80th percentile for enlisted personnel and of around the 75th percentile for officers are likely to meet existing recruit quality objectives. Assessing the ECI versus the DECI, the authors conclude DoD should consider replacing or supplanting the former with the latter. The DECI has several advantages over the ECI, and most of the critiques of the DECI have been addressed by advances in data availability and computing power in recent decades.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1050654632

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Assessing Compensation Reform: Research in Support of the 10th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation by Anonim Pdf

Military retirement reform has been a central element of the policy debate regarding why and how to restructure the system for compensating members of the U.S. armed forces. Concerns about the compensation system, and the retirement system specifically, include the rising cost of military compensation and the need for greater efficiency in the provision of compensation, the greater need for flexibility to reshape the force as missions change in ways that challenge the current compensation system, and issues related to the equity of military retirement benefits of active versus reserve personnel, junior versus senior personnel, and military personnel versus their civilian counterparts. Active members can claim retirement benefits before reservists can; junior members who leave prior to completing 20 years of service do not qualify for retirement benefits, unlike their more senior counterparts; and the 20-year vesting rule is outside the civilian vesting norm of 5-7 years of service, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The 10th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (QRMC), building on previous studies and commission reports, including the 2006 report of the Defense Advisory Committee on Military Compensation (DoD, 2006) and the 2000 report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Human Resources Strategy, has proposed an alternative military retirement system that addresses concerns regarding the current system while still sustaining the force. The defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) plans are the foundation of the alternative system considered in this analysis. RAND was asked to develop a modeling capability to assess compensation alternatives, such as the QRMC proposal, in terms of their effects on military retention, retirement behavior, vesting, cost, reserve participation, and the value of compensation from the perspective of the member leaving active duty. This monograph presents the results of that study.

Author : Stephanie Rennane,Beth J. Asch,Michael G. Mattock,Heather Krull,Douglas C. Ligor,Michael Dworsky,Jonas Kempf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1977408001

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U.S. Department of Defense Disability Compensation Under a Fitness-For-Duty Evaluation Approach by Stephanie Rennane,Beth J. Asch,Michael G. Mattock,Heather Krull,Douglas C. Ligor,Michael Dworsky,Jonas Kempf Pdf

The joint U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Integrated Disability Evaluation System is the process by which DoD determines fitness for duty and separation or retirement of service members because of disability. Service members who are evaluated for disability undergo a comprehensive medical examination to document all medical conditions and receive a disability rating for every condition documented during the exam. DoD and the VA use these ratings to determine the amount of disability compensation service members receive if they are determined to be unfit to continue serving and consequently medically discharged. Proposals for reforming the DoD compensation system have been considered in the past, but a rigorous evaluation of what those alternatives might look like and how they would affect service member benefits and costs to DoD has not been conducted. In this report, the authors describe their evaluation of four hypothetical alternative disability compensation approaches that would support a simpler disability evaluation process: compensating based on the current objectives of the DoD system (and using current benefit formulas), compensating on the basis of a military career, compensating on the basis of unfitting conditions, or compensating similar to U.S. allies. Each alternative reduces reliance on disability ratings for determining DoD disability compensation and focuses primarily on a single decision about whether a service member is fit to perform his or her duties. The authors evaluate the potential effects of each alternative on service member compensation, processing times, end strength, lost skills and experience, and readiness.

Author : United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1719348774

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Military Compensation Issues by United States Accounting Office (GAO) Pdf

Military Compensation Issues

Author : Heidi L. W. Golding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Draft
ISBN : PURD:32754075495683

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The All-volunteer Military by Heidi L. W. Golding Pdf

Author : Lawrence Kapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : OCLC:1119586447

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Defense Primer by Lawrence Kapp Pdf