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 Compensation -- Increases 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 Jobs -- The 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 Pay -- Medical 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 Increases -- Congress 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? -- 6. Is There a "Pay Gap" Between Military and Civilian Pay,So that Generally Military Pay Is Less than that ofComparable Civilians? If So, What Is the Extent of the "Gap"? -- Measuring and Confirming a "Gap" -- Estimates of a Military-Civilian Pay Gap -- If There Is a Pay Gap, Does It Necessarily Matter? -- 7. What Benefits Are Specifically Available for MilitaryPersonnel Participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)and Operation Enduring Freedom?[14] -- Hostile Fire/Imminent Danger Pay -- Hardship Duty Pay -- Family Separation Allowance -- Per Diem -- Savings Deposit Program -- Combat Zone Tax Exclusion -- Rest and Recreation (R&R) for Personnel in OIF/OEF -- 8. What Cash Lump-Sum Death Benefits Are Available to theSurvivors of Military Personnel Killed in Iraq or Afghanistan? -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.