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Military Compensation

Developing and offering the appropriate military compensation packages—including wages, health care, reenlistment bonuses, retirement, leave, dependent benefits, and survivor benefits—is necessary to attract and retain active duty and reserve personnel with essential skills. RAND has conducted extensive research to advise policymakers on developing compensation options to attract and retain a military workforce capable of meeting a nation's strategic goals.

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Aug 16, 2024

Russia's Post-War Military Recruiting Strategy Emerges

Russia's military recruiting efforts generally include offering higher wages and benefits, tightly managing public engagement and perceptions of the war to suppress bad news, and increasing military–patriotic education in schools to target the next generation of recruits.
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Nov 6, 2023

A Revised Recruiting Resource Model for Achieving the Army Personnel Strategy: Accounting for Digital Advertising

Using an updated version of RAND’s Recruiting Resource Model, the authors analyze how observed and alternative mixes of advertising, recruiters, and bonuses affect the Army’s ability to achieve recruiting goals and the cost of doing so.
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Sep 27, 2023

Army Enlistment Options Optimizer: Research Approach, Findings, and Implications

The authors developed a wide set of Army enlistment options that bundle bonus and less-costly non-bonus incentives. Survey respondents choose the option they most value. This can increase satisfaction and potential enlistments and decrease costs.
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Aug 31, 2023

Potential Changes to Veterans' Benefits Under the Major Richard Star Act: Veterans' Issues in Focus

The Major Richard Star Act would drop the “offset” that reduces retirement pay for some disabled veterans. If it is signed into law, what could change for veterans’ benefits, and how many veterans would see an increase in their compensation?
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Aug 22, 2023

Military Academy Students Can Now Retain Parental Rights: Department of Defense Options for Managing the Change

As of 2023, DoD allows enrolled cadets and midshipmen to retain parental rights. This brief explores potential DoD policy changes that could help cadet and midshipman parents care for their children, succeed in school, and become exemplary officers.
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Aug 22, 2023

Ensuring Parental Rights of Military Service Academy Cadets and Midshipmen: Policy and Cost Implications

This report characterizes legal, policy, practice, and cost implications of U.S. Department of Defense options to comply with a new congressional requirement allowing service academy cadets and midshipmen who become parents to retain parental rights.
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Aug 15, 2023

Russian Military Personnel Policy and Proficiency: Reforms and Trends, 1991–2021

The authors of this report draw on Russian-language sources to examine trends in Russian military personnel policies and initiatives from the 1990s through December 2021, prior to Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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Aug 7, 2023

Army Aviation Special and Incentive Pay Policies to Promote Performance, Manage Talent, and Sustain Retention

This report presents results of an effort to determine how the U.S. Army This report presents results of an effort to determine how the U.S. Army might modernize special and incentive pays to better reward Army aviators' career advancement while cost-effectively achieving retention objectives. modernize special and incentive pays to better reward Army aviators’ career advancement while cost-effectively achieving retention objectives.
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Jul 10, 2023

Analysis of the Post-Service Earnings, Wealth, and Well-Being of Military Retirees

The authors assessed the extent to which the earnings and wealth of service members who served full careers in the military and retired differed from the earnings and wealth of those who did not serve full careers and those who did not serve at all.
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Jun 28, 2023

Examining the financial stability of UK military families: An exploratory analysis

This study explores the prevalence and drivers of financial (in)stability among military families in the United Kingdom. It provides recommendations for improving policy and finance-related support based on a critical review of the support landscape.
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Jun 28, 2023

Understanding and supporting the financial stability of UK military families: Summary of findings and recommendations for policy and practice

This research brief summarises the findings and recommendations for policy and practice from a study looking at the prevalence and drivers of financial (in)stability among military families in the United Kingdom.
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Jun 27, 2023

Attracting and Employing Top-Tier Civilian Technical Talent in the Department of the Air Force: A Comparison of Six Occupations with Other Federal Agencies and the Private Sector

This report identifies barriers related to the Department of the Air Force's (DAF's) ability to attract and employ top civilian talent in six occupational series and explores strategies the DAF may be able to use to better compete for that talent.

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