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<p>Resources should be allocated to those programs that provide benefits greater than  their costs. This project examines if the Navy's Career Sea Pay program is effective at  meeting that criteria for its enlisted component. Using five representative ratings, an  historical review of changing trends in the Navy's use of sea pay is conducted to  determine the program's intent. Cost data and measures of satisfaction with the amount  of pay including survey responses and sea duty generation amounts are compared and  analyzed. Empirical evidence suggests that the increase in Career Sea pay rates in fiscal  year 2002 generated an increase in the willingness to go to sea; however, the increase was  short-lived due to the loss in the real value of the compensation due to inflation.  Additionally, statistical analysis provides no consistent verification of the relationship  between the cost and intended benefit of Career Sea Pay and is unable to determine  Sailors' assessment of the cost of sea duty. Two alternatives are proposed to improve the  effectiveness of Career Sea Pay as an incentive to willingly perform sea duty.
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<br>Subjects: Sailors.; Career sea pay program; compensating wage differentials; sea-shore  rotation;</div>
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<dl><dd>Ashby, DeAngelo</dd>
<dd>Vasquez, Henry</dd>
<dd>Scinicariello, Antonio</dd></dl></div>
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