{"id":31530,"date":"2017-11-20T19:41:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T19:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/11\/20\/navy-advancement-quotas-show-improving-odds-for-moving-up\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:15:47","slug":"navy-advancement-quotas-show-improving-odds-for-moving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/11\/20\/navy-advancement-quotas-show-improving-odds-for-moving-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy advancement quotas show improving odds for moving up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>About 25,000 sailors will get the word this week that they\u2019ll be putting on a new crow as the Navy releases the fall advancement results for active duty, reserve full-time support and selected reserve E-4 through E-6 in time for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all, 90,082 sailors passed this fall\u2019s advancement exams making them eligible to compete for the 25,050 available advancement quotas for those paygrades, a 27 percent chance at moving up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the second consecutive cycle that opportunity has risen by nearly a full percentage point, up from last spring\u2019s Navy-wide 26 percent advancement opportunity. And it\u2019s nearly two percentage points higher than last fall\u2019s 24.5 percent chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Navy officials released the spring quotas data on Monday. The names of those advanced are expected to be released to commands on Tuesday and made public Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>ACTIVE DUTY<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the active-duty side, opportunity increased at E-4 and E-5 while slipping slightly at E-6. But the good news is those increases bumped the overall advancement opportunity to 27.4 percent, up from 25.5 percent this past spring and 23.9 percent from last fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 82,408 sailors sat for their exams in September, with 79,797 cutting a passing score, a pass rate of 96.7 percent, down slightly from last cycle\u2019s 97 percent.<b><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Active E-4 advancement opportunity increased to 43.3 percent, up from 41.1 percent last cycle, with 20,060 sailors competing for 8,689 available quotas. A total of 20,355 E-3s took the exam and 20,060 passed their tests, a 98.6 percent pass rate.<b><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com\/client_files\/1511193135.pdf\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Active Duty Cycle Fall 2017 E4 Quotas<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Active-duty E-5 advancement opportunity increased to 27.3 percent, up from 23.4 percent last cycle, with 33,649 sailors competing for 9,168 quotas. A total of 34,261 third classes took the exam, and the 33,649 who passed made the paygrade\u2019s pass rate 98.2 percent<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com\/client_files\/1511193158.pdf\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Active Duty Cycle Fall 2017 E5 Quotas<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Active E-6 advancement opportunity dropped slightly to 14.3 percent, down from 14.8 percent last cycle, with 26,088 sailors competing for 3,741 quotas. With 27,892 E-5\u2032s sitting for the exam, the passing rate was 93.6 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com\/client_files\/1511193181.pdf\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Active Duty Cycle Fall 2017 E6 Quotas<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>RESERVE FULL-TIME SUPPORT<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After three straight cycles of increased opportunity, the full-time support community saw a slip at all three pay grades this cycle, knocking the overall chance to advance down to 27.6 percent from the previous 37 percent. If there\u2019s good news, though, it\u2019s that the test passing rate is a service-high of 97.8 percent, with 1,657 of the 1,695 sailors passing the exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FTS E-4 advancement opportunity is the best in the service this cycle, with 187 of the 207 test passers expected to advance, a rate of 90.3 which is actually down from last cycle\u2019s 95.4 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com\/client_files\/1511202709.pdf\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Full Time Support Fall 2017 E4<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FTS E-5 advancement opportunity dropped to 27.3 percent, down from last cycle\u2019s 46 percent, with 550 successful exam takers competing for 188 quotas.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com\/client_files\/1511193473.pdf\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Full Time Support Fall 2017 E5<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FTS E-6 advancement opportunity decreased to 9.2 percent, drastically down from last cycle\u2019s 19.9 percent, with 827 sailors competing for 83 quotas.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com\/client_files\/1511194479.pdf\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Full Time Support Fall 2017 E6<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>SELECTED RESERVE<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drilling reserve sailors are again seeing significant advancement opportunity, with a 30.8 percent chance to move up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all, 8,628 reservists passed their advancement exams and are competing for 2,658 quotas, the selected reserve\u2019s third straight increase in advancement opportunity. This past spring yielded a 28 percent opportunity to advance, and last fall\u2019s rate of advancement sat at 27.1 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reserve did not provide Navy Times with the number of total exam takers this cycle, so it wasn\u2019t possible to calculate the percentage of those passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reserve E-4 advancement opportunity decreased to just under 66 percent, down from 69.1 percent last cycle, with 1,213 sailors competing for 800 quotas.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com\/client_files\/1511194460.pdf\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Selected Reserve Fall 2017 E4<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reserve E-5 advancement opportunity increased for the second consecutive cycle to 33.1 percent, up from 29.6 percent last cycle and 25.9 percent last fall. Here, 3,600 sailors are competing for 1,191 quotas.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com\/client_files\/1511194572.pdf\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Selected Reserve Fall 2017 E5<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reserve E-6 advancement opportunity increased to 17.5 percent, up from last cycle\u2019s 14.4 percent, with 3,815 sailors competing for 667 quotas.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com\/client_files\/1511194590.pdf\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Selected Reserve Fall 2017 E6<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see how long sailors typically have to wait before moving up to the next rank, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/advancement-calculator\/\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\" aria-describedby=\"popover801466\">Navy Times advancement calculator<\/a> and select your own rating. <\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/advancement-calculator\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Navy Times Advancement Calculator<\/a><\/aside>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotas released by the Navy Monday show sailors competing for advancement to E-4, E-5 and E-6 have, overall, a 27 percent shot at moving up this cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":62752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":65,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,12,26,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3087],"class_list":["post-31530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-news","category-newsletters","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"Q7FEIC2SJBAG7ICJ76HUD7US4E","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/11\/20\/navy-advancement-quotas-show-improving-odds-for-moving-up\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Navy advancement quotas show improving odds for moving up - Navy Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Quotas released by the Navy Monday show sailors competing for advancement to E-4, E-5 and E-6 have, overall, a 27 percent shot at moving up this cycle.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Navy advancement quotas show improving odds for moving up\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Quotas released by the Navy Monday show sailors competing for advancement to E-4, E-5 and E-6 have, overall, a 27 percent shot at moving up this cycle.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/11\/20\/navy-advancement-quotas-show-improving-odds-for-moving-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Navy Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-11-20T19:41:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T19:15:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark D. 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