The RAND Corporation recently issued a research report for the Office of the Secretary of Defense after it was asked to determine if it would appropriate to slow the rate of increase in military basic pay.The report suggests that DoD should begin to curb the growth in military pay and offered three possibilities to accomplish this slow down: 1) A one-time increase in pay set at half a percent below the Employment Cost Index, 2) A single-year pay freeze (no pay rate increases for one year) or 3) A four-year series of smaller raises set at the ECI minus half a percentage point. For more details, visit the Military Advantage Blog.

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