{"id":45543,"date":"2024-01-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/01\/16\/these-navy-jobs-have-the-highest-turnover\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:21:10","slug":"these-navy-jobs-have-the-highest-turnover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/01\/16\/these-navy-jobs-have-the-highest-turnover\/","title":{"rendered":"These Navy jobs have the highest turnover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to military job retention rates, not all specialties are created equal. A Marine in an administrative or logistics role, for example, may see a lot less turnover in their specialty than a rifleman or aircraft maintainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New data from all the military services reveals the lowest-retention jobs for each of the services, highlighting a variety of challenges the services face, from competitive pay to effective career progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while retention remains strong across the services even as recruiting falters, personnel officials say they\u2019re working hard to prevent future skill gaps that could affect military readiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a quarterly meeting of the Defense Department-chartered Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services last month, representatives of each of the military services revealed which jobs had the lowest retention rates for each of the genders and discussed what they were doing to promote equity and retain military talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Navy, many of the highest-turnover jobs were in the nuclear field. Continuation rates in fiscal 2023 for all ratings averaged close to 86% for enlisted troops and 91% for officers, with minimal difference between the genders.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2023\/10\/19\/amid-recruiting-crisis-the-navy-surpassed-retention-goals-for-fy23\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/221216-N-BR419-1009.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Amid recruiting crisis, the Navy surpassed retention goals for FY23<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Navy kept more than 110% of sailors with up to 14 years of service in Fiscal Year 2023, which ended Sept. 30.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For both men and women, the enlisted roles of electronics technician-nuclear-surface and electrician\u2019s mate-nuclear-surface were among the highest-turnover jobs, with an average of 83.5% retention over five years for the former and 85% for the latter. Aviation boatswain\u2019s mate and aviation boatswain\u2019s mate, fuels \u2013 both jobs involving flight deck aircraft management \u2013 also ranked in the bottom ten jobs for both genders in retention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Capt. Michael Wheeler, the Navy\u2019s director of comprehensive analytics, acknowledged that the military\u2019s inability to compete with civilian pay for certain positions played a role in the retention picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNuclear-trained personnel, we are paying them at the statutory congressional limit of what we can pay,\u201d Wheeler said. \u201cThe sailors are very highly talented and have a lot of opportunities on the outside. Despite us paying them as much as we conceivably can, they still tend to walk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding the flight deck roles, Wheeler said that 70% of the sailors serving in those jobs were in the enlisted ranks of E-5 and below, reflecting the physically demanding nature of the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe just do not intend to keep those sailors long-term, at least not in that rating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Army, the lowest-retention job specialties for men were Criminal Investigation Division special agent, with a retention rate of 38% for fiscal 2023; diagnostic equipment maintenance specialist, with a retention rate of 44%; and cable systems installer-maintainer, at 48%.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2023\/01\/18\/army-doubles-down-on-retention-for-fiscal-2023-amid-recruiting-woes\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7402114.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Army doubles down on retention for fiscal 2023 amid recruiting woes<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Army is trying to retain even more soldiers than last year, according to the service&#039;s top general.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For women soldiers, the lowest-retention jobs included carpentry and masonry specialist, at 23% retention; diagnostic equipment maintenance specialist at 25%; and unmanned aircraft repairer, at 33%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This contrasts with an overall Army retention rate of 80.4% for women and 77.7% for men in fiscal 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Army, it\u2019s not fully clear why certain jobs struggle to retain soldiers. Sgt. Maj. Tobey Whitney, the Army\u2019s senior career counselor, told the committee that some of the data aligned with planning: CID is significantly reducing its active-duty ranks as part of a planned restructuring and thus actively transitioning many of its soldiers elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why so many maintenance specialties can\u2019t hang on to troops is less clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have requested information from the respective components and we\u2019re awaiting their feedback,\u201d Whitney said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine Corps presented much less detailed information than the other services in response to the committee\u2019s request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it did highlight the significant difference between first and second-term enlisted retention, averaging just 30% for the first contract and 45% for the second, and annual officer continuation rates, which were 89% in the past fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among already low enlisted retention rates, the 0311 rifleman community stood out, retaining only 16% of reenlistment-eligible Marines in fiscal 2023 in keeping with the needs of the Corps, said Maj. Mark McGee, an enlisted retention planner with Manpower Plans and Policy. For enlisted women, he said, aviation maintainer roles, in addition to infantry, had the lowest retention rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the officer side, where the Marine Corps does not have specific retention targets, KC-130 aircraft commander was the job with the lowest continuation rate, averaging 85% for men and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Air Force, where average enlisted and officer retention rates hover around 90%, medical jobs see some of the highest turnover. Optometry specialist for enlisted women, nurse for female officers, and aerospace medicine physician for male officers all made the list of lowest-retention jobs, in addition to flight engineer for enlisted men. But retention remained relatively high in those communities, ranging from 79% to 84%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the communities with low retention rates are very small, said Col. Joshua Hawkins, chief of the Air Force\u2019s Military Policy Division. Hawkins also noted that some of these jobs, like nursing and optometry, had a disproportionately high ratio of women to men, which may affect overall retention.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2023\/03\/13\/military-services-grappling-with-filling-their-ranks-in-budget-request\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-AUSA-bigger-army.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Military services grappling with filling their ranks in budget request<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The services are looking to add about 12,000 troops to their ranks this year.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acknowledging that retention rates for women dipped at the E-5 and E-9 level more dramatically than for men at the same ranks, Hawkins said Air Force analysis indicates limitations in upward job mobility and alternative career decisions may factor into these trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avery Calkins, an associate economist at the RAND Corporation, noted that in the medical fields, as in aviation specialties and nuclear technician roles, competition and demand in the civilian workforce may be putting pressure on the military to keep top talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retention and recruiting combine together to make up the strength of a military force, she told Military Times, and with the Air Force, Navy and Army missing fiscal 2023 recruiting goals and a declining proportion of prospective recruits scoring in the top 50% on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, retention is all the more critical to keeping skilled jobs filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there aren\u2019t clear indicators of a burgeoning retention crisis yet, she said, it\u2019s something the military should monitor closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe concern with recruiting is that in five years, we won\u2019t have enough sergeants or E-5s in service,\u201d Calkins said. \u201cIf retention were to fall right now, then not only would there not be enough E-5s in five years, there might not be enough E-5s this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personnel officials who appeared before the group did address what appeared to be an early trend: the Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and Navy all showed retention rates in fiscal 2023 that remained below the fiscal 2019 pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials with the Army and Navy said their retention rates were falling back into historical norms following pandemic-era highs, when economic uncertainty prompted many troops to stay put rather than seek out other opportunities. In both services, though, the trends are being scrutinized, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army, said Whitney, is currently developing a new, simple retention survey, in addition to its existing career engagement survey, that will focus on junior soldiers who will soon be making decisions about whether to hang up their uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt will be a simple five to seven-question survey that provides us near real-time feedback on the sentiments of soldiers by the location they\u2019re currently serving in,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the new survey, which will allow us to get important feedback from the younger soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Air Force, predictive analytics do show the service experiencing personnel gaps around 2027 and 2028 among noncommissioned officers and experienced company-grade officers. Hawkins said the Air Force was making promotion-focused moves \u2013 including an \u201cup or out\u201d rule change announced in December \u2013 to make sure critical jobs stayed filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re working on proactive measures right now,\u201d Hawkins said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to over-advance people before they\u2019ve got the experience. 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