US Military: Target, Google Amazon Are "Competition" For Recruitment, Willing to Offer Between $25K to $100K to Keep War Machine Going.
Back in 2018, Brookings had am article title, " How the U.S. Military Became the Exception to America's Wage Stagnation Problem ." It referenced a (then) recent report from the Council of Foreign Relations that highlighted (among other things) that, "Over 60 percent of 2016 enlistments came from neighborhoods with a median household income between $38,345 and $80,912" before revealing that between 2000 and 2011, and E5 paygrade went from 10% under the median American to 10% more. For a variety of reasons, the middle class was the US military. The article, however, warned that this could be more of a phase than a permanent shift: The temptation for future defense budgets will be to neglect military compensation increases and regress to the historical pay gap as personnel expenditures currently encapsulate one-third of the defense budget. But, the Department of Defense (DOD) must keep an eye on the horizon and proactively anticipate and act on civilian sector eco...