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Title Evaluting military compensation / Jaime G. Duenas, editor
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009

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Description 1 online resource
Series Defense, security and strategy series
Defense, security and strategy series.
Contents EVALUATING MILITARY COMPENSATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; EVALUATING MILITARY COMPENSATION*; PREFACE; 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 CompensationIncreases in Regular Military CompensationVersus the Employment Cost Index; COMPARING LEVELS OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PAY; Cash Compensation; Noncash and Deferred Benefits; Retirement; Health Care; Other Noncash Benefits; Issues in Providing Noncash Benefits; General Limitations of Military-Civilian Comparisons; LINKING MILITARY COMPENSATIONTO RECRUITING AND RETENTION; Effectiveness of Using Pay to ResolveOccupational Shortages or Surpluses; Comparing Pay for Certain Army Jobs and Their Civilian Counterparts
Personnel Shortages or Surpluses in Those JobsThe Role of Special Pays; Effects of Cash and Noncash Compensationon Recruiting and Retention; OPTIONS TO INCREASE THE VISIBILITYAND EFFICIENCY OF MILITARY COMPENSATION; Integrating the Components of Total Compensation; Increasing Cash Relative to Noncash Compensation; APPENDIX A. TOTAL COMPENSATIONFOR THE MEDIAN ENLISTED MEMBER; APPENDIX B. HOW PAY CHANGES WITH DEPLOYMENT; APPENDIX C. TYPES OF OCCUPATIONORSKILLS-BASED COMPENSATION; Selective Reenlistment Bonus; Hazardous-Duty/Parachute Pay; Flight Pay; Foreign Language Proficiency Pay; Diving Pay
Nuclear Duty PayMedical Pay; NOTES; REFERENCES; MILITARY PAY AND BENEFITS:KEY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS*; ABSTRACT; MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS; KEY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; 1. Why Did the Adequacy of Active Duty Military PayBecome a Major Issue Beginning in the Late 1990s?; 2. What Kinds of Increases in Military Pay and BenefitsHave Been Considered or Used in the Past?; 3. What is "Pay Table Reform"?; 4. How Are Each Year's Increases in Military Pay Computed?; Definitions; Annual Percentage Increases in Military Basic Pay
Military Basic Pay Raises Linked to EmploymentCost Index (ECI) Percentage IncreasesCongress Usually Sets the Amount of the Military Pay Raise; Annual Increases in Basic Allowances for Housing(BAH) and Subsistence (BAS); 5. What Have Been the Annual Percentage Increasesin Active Duty Military Basic Pay Since 1993 (FY1994)?What Were Each Year's Major Executive and LegislativeBranch Proposals and Actions on the Annual PercentageIncrease in Military Basic Pay?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Armed Forces -- Salaries, etc.
SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Pay, allowances, etc. -- Evaluation
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Duenas, Jaime G
LC no. 2020685324
ISBN 9781617284168
1617284165