Best rates to get into?

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Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on January 2, 2016 at 4:41pm

So you can loosely interpret which ratings move the fastest by raking by available billets.....the higher the quota the more openings. 

Comment by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on January 2, 2016 at 4:33pm

To explain it a bit more, Sailors must firstly pass the Advancement Exam. Their scores will be ranked within their rating. Each rating has a limited amount of available slots for advancement (quota). Top scores will fill those slots based upon the quota. Those that pass without advancement carry points into the next Advancement cycle and must wait for the next time to try again. Some ratings have more available slots than others....

Comment by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on January 2, 2016 at 10:31am

Dave....follow the Quota link that Paul posted. There you will find the percentages for advancement within ratings. The short answer is "Yes".....

Comment by Dave Kulik on January 1, 2016 at 9:12pm

Thanks, Paul for responding.  The links provided do not, however, answer the basic question: which specialties offer the greatest opportunities for advancement?  My daughter is in advanced IT/cybersecurity, and says she was "lucky."  I don't feel that it was "luck."   With several layers of background checks, security investigations, and testing, she was chosen (and offered the opportunity) for this field based on intelligence, reasoning and a number of other attributes, but not "luck."

The question I was asking was whether or not the IT field offered greater advancement opportunities than say, a fireman or fire control technician (not sure of the exact title) or medical technician?  Thanks!

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on December 30, 2015 at 8:20pm

actual quotas:

http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/documents/PAO-Active-Cycle228-2015-E4...

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on December 30, 2015 at 8:17pm

You need to spend some time in this group: http://www.navydads.com/group/careerchoices

in general there needs to be a billet open for advancement and with budgets the way they are some billets are very limited.....there are some links Gary has in the group that list the number of openings for the various ratings.

as an example: for FY '16:

E-4 advancement opportunity decreased from 33.30 percent 32.94 percent (-.36 percentage points). Total of 9,106 quotas which includes 553 advanced via MAP.

E-5 advancement opportunity decreased from 23.87 percent to 21.34 percent (-2.53 percentage points). 7,569 of quotas with 755 already advanced via MAP.

E-6 advancement opportunity decreased from 17.69 percent to 15.17 percent (-2.52 percentage points). There are 3,818 E-6 quotas which includes 907 advanced via MAP.