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Air Force Demographics
Air Force demographics provides a quarterly snapshot of the active duty officer and enlisted force as well as Air Force civilian employees.
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The following Air Force active-duty demographics information is current as of January 7, 2010.
Active-duty demographics
Statistics are rounded to the nearest tenth.
Snapshot of the Air Force
- 330,159 individuals are on active duty
-- 65,515 officers and 264,644 enlisted personnel
- The Air Force has 13,725 pilots, 4,132 navigators, 1,370 air battle managers and 30,182 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, 38.9 percent are below the age of 26
-- 45.2 percent of enlisted Airmen are below 26 versus 13.61 percent of officers
Gender
- 19.4 percent of the force are women
-- 18.4 percent of the officers are women and 19.7 percent of the enlisted corps are women
-- 57.1 percent of the female officers are line officers; 43 percent are nonline
- 85.2 percent of the male officers are line officers; 15 percent are nonline
- The population of women in the Air Force is 64,079
- Women first entered pilot training in 1976, navigator training in 1977 and fighter pilot training in 1993
-- Currently, there are 631 (4.3 percent) female pilots, 280 (6.2 percent) female navigators and 175 air battle managers (12.2 percent)
Race of Airmen
The following percentages, which are self-reported, cover Air Force military members' racial information.
- 0.6 percent reported their race to be American Indian or native Alaskan
- 2.6 percent reported their race to be Asian
- 14.6 percent reported their race to be black or African American
- 1.0 percent reported their race to be native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
- 73.4 percent reported their race to be white
- 2.1 percent reported their race to be more than one of the categories
- 5.6 percent declined to report their race
Ethnicity
"Hispanic or Latino" is considered an ethnic, not a racial, category that is registered separately and in addition to the above racial categories.
- 10.4 percent of Airmen call themselves "Hispanic/Latino"
- 86 percent "not Hispanic/Latino"
-- 3.9 percent declined to respond
Marital status
- 59 percent of the current force is married, which is 71.3 percent of the officers and 56 percent of enlisted Airmen
-- 32,977 active duty member married to another active duty member
-- 1,370 married to members of other military services
-- 155,413 active duty members married to other (non military)
-- 124 active duty members married to reserve/guard other service
-- 4,855 active duty married to USAFR/ANG
-- 135,420 active duty members are not married
Family members
- Active-duty members support 447,924 family members
-- 353,228 family members reside in an Airman's household
-- 15486 participate in the Exception Family Member Program
Overseas
- 20 percent of the current force is assigned overseas (including Alaska and Hawaii), which includes 9,634 officers and 57,554 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
-- 53 percent of the officers have advanced or professional degrees
-- 42.5 percent have master's degrees, 9.5 percent have professional degrees and 1.4 percent have doctorate degrees
-- 28.1 percent of company grade officers have advanced degrees, 21 percent have master's degrees, 6.9 percent have professional degrees and 0.3 percent have doctorate degrees
-- 86.8 percent of field grade officers have advanced degrees, 70.7 percent have master's degrees, 13.1 percent have professional degrees and 3 percent have doctorate degrees
Enlisted academic education
- 70.2 percent have some semester hours towards a college degree
-- 78 percent of Airmen
-- 77 percent of NCOs
-- 25 percent of senior NCOs
- 18.7 percent have an associate's degree or equivalent semester hours
-- 1.7 percent of Airmen
-- 19 percent of NCOs
-- 52 percent of senior NCOs
- 5.4 percent have a bachelor's degree
-- 1.9 percent of Airmen
-- 3.9 percent of NCOs
-- 18 percent of senior NCOs
- 0.9 percent have a master's degree
-- .02 percent of Airmen
-- 0.4 percent of NCOs
-- 4.5 percent of senior NCOs
- .01 percent have a professional or doctorate degree
Component
- 96.9 percent of the officers have a regular commission
-- 96.7 percent of the line officers have a regular commission
Developmental education
- 85 percent of the officers have completed one or more professional military education or developmental education courses either in residence or by correspondence.
-- 9,592 have completed at least one senior service school or senior developmental education course, 13,343 have completed an intermediate level course while 32,757 have completed Squadron Officer School.
Source of commission
- 20.9 percent of the officers were commissioned through the Air Force Academy, 42.9 percent through Reserve Officer Training Corps and 19 percent through Officer Training School.
-- The remaining 0.91 percent were commissioned through other sources (direct appointment, etc.). |
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The following Air Force civilian demographics information is current as of January 11, 2010.
Civilian employee demographics
Statistics are rounded to the nearest tenth.
Total civilian strength
- There are 151,360 total civilian employees
-- 130,705 U.S. citizen/permanent/full-time employees
-- 20,655 Non-U.S. citizen/permanent/full-time employees
Type of work
- 78 percent are "white collar"
- 22 percent are "blue collar"
Citizenship
- 141,718 U.S. citizens including U.S. nationals
- 9,637 foreign national employees
- Five other non-U.S. employees in the U.S. or a U.S. territory
Air reserve technicians
- 10,549 air reserve technicians
Age
- The average age is 46.4 years
Length of service
- The average length of service is 14.6 years
Retirement eligibility
- 27 percent become eligible in more than 20 years
- 28.9 percent become eligible in 11-20 years
- 17.3 percent become eligible in 6-10 years
- 16.3 percent become eligible in 1-5 years
- 8.7 percent became eligible 0-5 years ago
- 2 percent became eligible more than 5 years ago
Gender
- 33 percent are female and 67 percent are male
Race
The following percentages cover self-reported Air Force civilian members' racial information.
- 1.1 percent reported their race to be American Indian or native Alaskan
- 5 percent reported their race to be Asian
- 12 percent reported their race to be black or African American
- 0.3 percent reported their race to be native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
- 70.9 percent reported their race to be white
- 0.9 percent reported their race to be more than one of the categories
- 10.3 percent declined to report their race
Ethnicity
"Hispanic or Latino" is considered an ethnic, not a racial, category that is registered separately and in addition to the above racial categories.
- 6.7 percent of airmen call themselves "Hispanic/Latino"
- 93.3 percent "not Hispanic/Latino"
Overseas
- 10.6 percent of the total civilian workforce is assigned overseas
- 40 percent are U.S. citizens including U.S. Nationals.
- 60.2 percent are local nationals
Military service
- 3.5 percent of the civilian work force are retired officers
- 16.8 percent of the civilian work force are retired enlisted
- 29 percent of the civilian work force have some military service (not retired)
- 51 percent have no military service
Education (white collar)
- 25.6 percent have a bachelor's degree
- 19 percent have a master's degree and 2.2 percent have a doctorate or professional degree
- 22 percent have an associate's degree or have accumulated hours toward a bachelor's degree
- 28.3 percent have at least a high school education
- 1.2 percent have less than a high school diploma
Education (blue collar)
- 3.9 percent have a bachelor's degree
- 0.3 percent have a master's degree
- 25 percent have an associate's degree or have accumulated hours toward a bachelor's degree
- 69.3 percent have at least a high school education or equivalent
- 1.20 percent have less than a high school diploma
Developmental education
- 7,269 civilian employees have completed one or more military schools
-- 3,961 Squadron Officer School
-- 3,719 intermediate developmental education
-- 2,480 senior developmental education
Executive-level training
- 307 employees have completed executive-level training
-- 25 Congressional fellowship programs
-- 255 executive and senior executive leadership
-- 25 public administration graduate school
-- 9 management graduate school |
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