IDA Ideas guests Jackie Burhmann and Mikhail Smirnov joined host Rhett Moeller to discuss IDA’s evaluation of the military compensation benchmark for the Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation. In this podcast, they explain how factors that dual-income military households face play a role in service members’ decisions to stay in the military or leave to join the civilian labor market. The U.S. military is an all-volunteer force, so it’s essential that service members are compensated at level that promotes retention decisions.
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