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Air Force Personnel Center officials here recently published a demographics report offering a snapshot of the service's active-duty and civilian force. (Courtesy photo)
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Service demographics offer snapshot of force
Posted 10/6/2010
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by Staff Sgt. Steve Grever
Air Force Personnel, Service and Manpower Public Affairs
10/6/2010 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- Air Force Personnel Center officials here recently published a demographics report offering a snapshot of the service's active-duty and civilian force.
This data is current as of Sept. 30 and can also be found on the Air Force personnel statistics Web page.
Statistics are rounded to the nearest tenth.
Active-duty demographics:
Snapshot of the Air Force:
-- 329,638 individuals are on active duty
-- 66,201 officers and 263,437 enlisted personnel
-- The Air Force has 14,083 pilots, 4,074 navigators, 1,426 air battle managers and 30,075 nonrated line officers in the grades of lieutenant colonel and below
Age:
-- The average age of the officer force is 35; for enlisted Airmen, it's 29
-- Of the force, 38.2 percent are below the age of 26
-- 44.4 percent of enlisted Airmen are below 26 versus 13.5 percent of officers
Gender:
-- 19.2 percent of the force are women
-- 18.7 percent of the officers are women, and 19.3 percent of the enlisted corps are women
-- 55.8 percent of the female officers are line officers
-- 85 percent of the male officers are line officers
-- The population of women is 63,309
-- Women first entered pilot training in 1976, navigator training in 1977 and fighter pilot training in 1993
-- Currently, there are 677 (4.5 percent) female pilots, 282 (6.3 percent) female navigators and 182 air battle managers (12.3 percent)
Race of Airmen:
The following percentages, which are self-reported, cover Airmen's racial information:
-- 0.7 percent reported their race to be American Indian or native Alaskan
-- 2.7 percent reported their race to be Asian
-- 14.5 percent reported their race to be black or African American
-- 1.1 percent reported their race to be native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
-- 73.3 percent reported their race to be white
-- 5.5 percent declined to report their race
Ethnicity:
"Hispanic or Latino" is now considered an ethnic, not a racial, category that is registered separately and in addition to the above racial categories.
-- 10.8 percent of Airmen call themselves "Hispanic or Latino"
-- 85.2 percent "not Hispanic or Latino"
-- 4 percent declined to respond
Marital status:
-- 59.2 percent of the current force is married, which is 71 percent of the officers and 56.2 percent of enlisted Airmen
-- There are 33,512 couples in the Air Force with both spouses in the military
-- 1,346 of these are married to members of other military services
Family members:
-- Active-duty members support 449,685 family members
-- 349,549 family members reside in an Airman's household
Overseas:
-- 20.51 percent of the current force is assigned overseas (including Alaska and Hawaii)
-- 9,570 officers and 58,051 enlisted personnel
Total active federal military service:
-- The average total active federal military service is 11 years for officers and 8 years for enlisted Airmen
Officer academic education:
-- 55 percent of the officers have advanced or professional degrees
-- 43.9 percent have master's degrees, 9.6 percent have professional degrees and 1.5 percent have doctorate degrees
-- 29.7 percent of company grade officers have advanced degrees, 22.6 percent have master's degrees, 6.8 percent have professional degrees and 0.8 percent have doctorate degrees
-- 88 percent of field grade officers have advanced degrees, 71.7 percent have master's degrees, 13.3 percent have professional degrees and 3.1 percent have doctorate degrees
Enlisted academic education:
-- 99.98 percent have a high school diploma
-- 3.9 percent have a high school diploma, GED, or other certification
-- 70.1 percent have some college
-- 19.3 percent have an associate's degree or equivalent
-- 5.7 percent have a bachelor's degree
-- 0.96 percent have a master's degree
-- 0.01 percent have a professional or doctorate degree
Component:
-- 96.86 percent of the officers have a regular commission
-- 97.08 percent of the line officers have a regular commission
Developmental education:
-- 84.94 percent of the officers have completed one or more professional military education or developmental education courses either in residence or by correspondence.
-- 9,177 have completed at least one senior service school or senior developmental education course, 14,078 have completed an intermediate level course while 32,975 have completed Squadron Officer School.
Source of commission:
-- 21.5 percent of officers were commissioned through the Air Force Academy, 42.6 percent through Reserve Officer Training Corps and 18.8 percent through Officer Training School. 0.9 percent were commissioned through other sources (direct appointment, etc.).
Civilian employee demographics:
Total civilian strength:
-- 138,801 U.S. civilian, permanent, full time employees
-- 7,288 U.S. citizen temp or term employees
-- 2,442 U.S. citizen part time, intermittent employees
-- 2,762 Leave without pay > 30 days, furlough, or suspended employees
-- 24,482 Non-appropriated funds employees
-- 13,014 Local nationals
Type of work (U.S. civilian, permanent, full time employees only):
-- 19.9 percent professional
-- 35.9 percent administrative
-- 13.4 percent technical
-- 4.5 percent clerical
-- 3 percent other
-- 23.3 percent blue collar
Age:
-- The average age is 47.1 years
Length of service:
-- The average length of service is 14.7 years
Retirement eligibility:
-- 20.2 percent become eligible in more than 20 years
-- 31.1 percent become eligible in 11-20 years
-- 18.6 percent become eligible in 6-10 years
-- 17.8 percent become eligible in 1-5 years
-- 9.8 percent became eligible 0-5 years ago
-- 2.4 percent became eligible more than 5 years ago
Gender:
-- 31.6 percent are female and 68.4 percent are male
Race:
The following percentages cover self-reported Air Force civilian members' racial information.
-- 1.2 percent reported their race to be American Indian or native Alaskan
-- 3.4 percent reported their race to be Asian
-- 12.7 percent reported their race to be black or African American
-- 0.4 percent reported their race to be native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
-- 75.3 percent reported their race to be white
-- 1 percent reported their race to be more than one of the categories
-- 6 percent no race reported
Ethnicity:
"Hispanic or Latino" is now considered an ethnic, not a racial, category that is registered separately and in addition to the above racial categories.
-- 7 percent of airmen call themselves "Hispanic or Latino"
-- 93 percent "not Hispanic or Latino"
Overseas:
-- 3.9 percent of the total civilian work force is assigned overseas; 96.1 are assigned in the continental U.S.
Military service:
-- 4.2 percent of the civilian work force are retired officers
-- 18.7 percent of the civilian work force are retired enlisted
-- < .1 percent of the civilian work force are retired warrant officers
-- 30.9 percent of the civilian work force have some military service (not retired)
-- 46.2 percent have no military service
Education (white collar)
-- 28.4 percent have a bachelor's degree
-- 22.2 percent have a master's degree and 2.3 percent have a doctorate or professional degree
-- 21.3 percent have an associate's degree or have accumulated hours toward a bachelor's degree
-- 25.6 percent have at least a high school education
-- 1 percent have less than a high school diploma
-- 0.2 percent have unknown education level
Education (blue collar)
-- 4 percent have a bachelor's degree
-- 0.4 percent have a master's degree
-- 24.4 percent have an associate's degree or have accumulated hours toward a bachelor's degree
--70 percent have at least a high school education or equivalent
-- 1 percent have less than a high school diploma
-- 0.2 percent have unknown education level
Developmental education
-- 7,395 civilian employees have completed one or more military schools
-- 4,061 have completed Squadron Officer School
-- 3,763 have completed intermediate developmental education
-- 2,549 have completed senior service school
Executive-level training
-- 303 employees have completed executive-level training
-- 23 Congressional fellowship programs
-- 255 executive and senior executive leadership
-- 24 public administration graduate school
-- 8 management graduate school
For more information, go to the Air Force Personnel Services website. |
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