Across-the-Board Pay Raises and Other Military Manpower Issues V. 114739

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U.S. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C.

FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
Expected at 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 31, 1981

STATEMENT OF

DR. KENNETH J. COFFEY
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR (MILITARY)
FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND COMPENSATION DIVISION

BEFORE THE

SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET

ON

ACROSS-THE-BOARD PAY RAISES AND OTHER
W MILITARY MANPOWER ISSUES

Mr. Chairman:

I am pleased to appear before you today to discuss several

important and interrelated issues concerning military compensation

and manpower policies. Foremost among these is the appropriateness

of the President's proposed across-the-board pay raises to take

effect this year.

This issue is very much interrelated with two other compen-

sation and manpower management issues that we, and others, have

addressed over the past several years: (1) the wisdom of insti-

tuting a military salary system to replace the antiquated pay and

allowances system and (2) whether the retirement system should

be revised so that it would work for, rather than against, military

manpower objectives.

Had these latter two issues been faced squarely and dealt

with appropriately at the time they were first raised, the

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