Navy Question for promotion?

Question

Why do the pay sailors with more time and grade then saliors that score higher on the tests??

Answer 1

There are a few factors in longevity in pay vice grade. In the MA rating, which is what I am, 2500 people took the E-6 exam, only 35 got advanced. There are also waiting periods between eligibility for advancement, From e-4 to e-5 is 1 year, for E-5 to e-6 is 3 years. In that time you get raises based on years of experience in the military. The longevity pay scale is the military equivalent to experience pay.

Answer 2

In the military today, you can't rest on your laurels. It's either up or out for enlisted men and officers. They will allow you to stay in a pay grade only so long before you are considered an undesirable for reenlistment, therefore the more senior members of a pay grade are considered first.

This may seem unreasonable for the guy who scores well and is more promotable, and in a peace time situation he may be given the job over the less qualified, yet senior counterpart, but in wartime, they want to hold on to as many able bodied personnel as they can.

Answer 3

Longevity.. consider it an annual COL pay raise.. people in the civilian world get them too, even if they don't get promoted.

It's an incentive for sticking around, they benefit from the experience as well as the opportunity to have you teach the ones who come after you.

Answer 4

I guess they chalk it up to experience. My husband made a 98% both times he took his E-6 exam and only on the second time did he make it because of time in rank. He's a young E-6 so he didn't have many award points.

Answer 5

They consider on the job experience more important .

Answer 6

Sailors are good in exams that the others because they have more exposure.