Military and Civilian Pay Levels, Trends, and Recruit Quality. Rand Corporation. James Hosek et al. December 3, 2018
RAND researchers compared military and civilian pay for 2016, following up on comparisons for 2009 and 1999, and assessed how recruit quality changed as military pay rose relative to civilian pay after 1999. [Note: contains copyrighted material].
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