Mathematical Relationships between Pay Grade Structure, Longevity, and Promotion Policy
Abstract
Navy manpower requirements describe the number of personnel required to fulfill Navy missions. These manpower requirements are described by a variety of terms, including skill, pay grade, and length of service. Navy personnel managers institute numerous policies in order to attain and then to maintain the required number of personnel. In particular, compensation levels are systematically varied to obtain desired continuation rates, and promotion policy may be altered to attain desired numbers of personnel in each pay grade and longevity profiles within pay grades. It was concluded that stringent up or out policies are precisely the situations in which desired force structure becomes unobtainable. This is because the ability to successfully manage personnel can be shown to be directly related to the amount of permissible overlap in longevity between different pay grades. For example, suppose E-4 personnel are not allowed to have more than 8 years of service, and promotion opportunity is such that only a few E-5 personnel have less than 8 years of service.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA212150
Entities
People
- David Rodney
Organizations
- Center for Naval Analyses