Senior chief is, year after year, typically the enlisted paygrade with the lowest average advancement rate. But here’s the good news for candidates: It ticked up this year.
That’s the news as The fiscal year 2017 E-8 selection board convened Mondaytoday with a slate of quotas that will allow them to pickselect 1,613 of 13,516 eligible chiefs seeking senior chief’s star this year.
Though there’s 775 more eligible chief petty officers this year, there’s also 157 more quotas which pushed overall opportunity up to 11.93 percent.
Here are the full E-8 quotas for active-duty.
The increase is up from last year’s 11.43 percent, though slightly short of the 12.03 percent shot realized two year’s ago — and wellquite short of the nearly two-decade high of 13.62 percent off the fiscal 2014 board just three years ago.
And The Navy’s top personnel officer says the best news is that he believes the rise shows that opportunity has stabilized and that opportunity will remain close to this mark, in the coming years.
Putting on senior chief, through the years, It’s tough to make E-8. has been statistically the toughest rate to achieve. Historic percentages show it annually has the lowest percentage of advancement in the enlisted paygrades. Force structure in these paygrades is limited by law and based on the total size of the enlisted workforce.
The best news of all is that again this year, every considering chief’s a step up has a quota for at least one sailor to put on their star
In all, fewerless ratings are advancing above the Navy-wide average, with just 34 of the of the 86 advancement groups at this level. That’s down from 47 last year when there were 88 groups, though still better than the 32 who advanced above the Navy-wide average last year.
This increased the numbers of below average ratings to 52, up from last year’s 41, and still better than the 56 below-average ratings two years ago.
Of note is the Navy diver rating, where there are 142 chiefs split between two competitive groups — Group 1 are those qualified as master divers, while Group 2 members hold lesser, first class diving qualifications. There are nine quotas for those who wear the master diver badge and For those with the master diver qualification, there are quotas for nine to advance, but only five qualified chiefs available to fill themose billets. It’s likely that all of them will advance, although likely, all will advance, though the board has the option to give back quotas if they don’t feel someone is qualified. Still, This 100 percent opportunity, this group tops the list for the second straight year.
But their diving counterparts, with the only the first class qualification, are among the worst advancing groups this year with seven quotas and 131 eligible chiefs, for a 5.3 percent shot. competing just a 5.34 percent shot at moving up.
This year is the first that Seabee sailors from the builder, steelworker and engineering aide ratings will compete to enter the newly created compression rating of senior chief constructionman. With 161 eligible sailors from these three ratings, sailors will have a higher-than-average chance of 14.3 percent. competing for sailors have a slightly higher than average 14,29 percent chance to move up.
This year’s other milestone is that those selected Those selected will be this year will be the first year-group of senior chiefs who must attend the for whom attendance of the Senior Enlisted Academy to be eligible for master chief. Program over the next three years will be mandatory for them to compete in three years in order to be eligible to advance to master chief.
