RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- The Air Force Personnel Center here recently published its demographics report offering a snapshot of the service's active-duty and civilian force, as of March 31.
More information can be found at the center's analysis branch Web site:
http://wwa.afpc.randolph.af.mil/demographics/.
Statistics rounded to the nearest tenth.
Active-duty demographics
Snapshot of the Air Force
- 337,780 individuals are on active duty
-- 68,675 officers and 269,105 enlisted personnel
- The Air Force has 13,545 pilots, 4,371 navigators, 1,363 air battle managers and 33,188 non-rated line officers in the grades of lieutenant colonel and below
Age
- The average age of the officer force is 35; for the enlisted force it's 29
- Of the force, 38.7 percent are below the age of 26
-- 45.3 percent of enlisted are below 26 versus 12.9 percent of officers
Gender
- 19.7 percent of the force are women
-- 18.2 percent of the officers are women and 20 percent of the enlisted corps are women
-- 59 percent of the female officers are line officers; 41 percent are non-line
-- 85.4 percent of the male officers are line officers; 14.6 percent are non-line
- The population of women is 66,410
- Women first began entering pilot training in 1976, fighter pilot training in July 1993 and navigator training in 1977
-- Currently there are 593 (4.1 percent) female pilots, 226 (4.8 percent) female navigators and 164 air battle managers (11.7 percent)
Race of Airmen
The following percentages cover self-reported Air Force military members' racial information.
- 0.6 percent reported their race to be American Indian or Alaska Native
- 2.3 percent reported their race to be Asian
- 14.8 percent reported their race to be Black or African American
- 0.8 percent reported their race to be Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
- 74.3 percent reported their race to be White
- 1.6 percent reported their race to be more than one of the categories
- 5.6 percent declined to report their race
Ethnicity of Airmen
"Hispanic or Latino" is now considered an ethnic, not a racial, category that is registered separately and in addition to the above racial categories.
- 9.1 percent of airmen call themselves "Hispanic/Latino"
- 87.8 percent "not Hispanic/Latino"
- 3.1 percent declined to respond
Marital status
- 60.8 percent of the current force is married
-- 72.6 percent of the officers are married and 57.8 percent of the enlisted
- There are 19,597 couples in the Air Force with both spouses in the military
-- 1,358 of these are married to members of other military services
Family members
- Active duty members supported 516,685 family members
-- 413,159 are family-members-in-household
Overseas
- 21.3 percent of the current force is assigned overseas (including Alaska and Hawaii)
-- 10,466 officers and 61,567 enlisted personnel
Total active federal military service
- The average total active federal military service is 11 years for officers and nine years for enlisted
Academic education
- 50.4 percent of the officers have advanced or professional degrees
-- 40.1 percent have master's degrees, 8.9 percent have professional degrees and 1.3 percent have doctorate degrees
-- 24 percent of company grade officers have advanced degrees; 17.3 percent have master's degrees, 6.5 percent have professional degrees and 0.3 percent have doctorate degrees
-- 84.8 percent of field grade officers have advanced degrees; 70.1 percent have master's degrees, 12.2 percent have professional degrees and 2.6 percent have doctorate degrees
- 99.95 percent of the enlisted force have at least a high school education
-- 73.5 percent have some semester hours towards a college degree
-- 16.4 percent have an associate's degree or equivalent semester hours
-- 4.8 percent have a bachelor's degree
-- 0.8 percent have a master's degree
-- .01 percent have a professional or doctorate degree
Component
- 99.4 percent of the officers have a regular commission
-- 99.6 percent of the line officers have a regular commission
Developmental education
- 60.1 percent of the officers have completed one or more professional military education or developmental education course either in residence or by correspondence.
-- 8,939 have completed at least one senior service school or senior developmental education course, 13,633 have completed an intermediate level course while 18,675 have completed squadron officer school.
Source of commission
- 19.4 percent of the officers were commissioned through the Air Force Academy, 43.1 percent through Reserve Officer Training Corps and 20.8 percent through Officer Training School.
-- The remaining 16.7 percent were commissioned from other sources (direct appointment, etc.).
Civilian employee demographics
Total civilian strength
- There are 142,447 civilian employees
-- 76 percent are "white collar" and 24 percent are "blue collar"
Citizenship
- 133,276 are U.S. citizens including U.S. nationals (9,796 are Air Force Reserve technicians)
- 9,168 are foreign national employees
- three are other non-U.S. employees in the U.S. or a U.S. territory
Age
- The average age is 46.6 years
Length of service
- The average length of service is 15.6 years
Retirement eligibility
- 24 percent become eligible in more than 20 years
- 30.2 percent become eligible in 11-20 years
- 17.8 percent become eligible in 6-10 years
- 18 percent become eligible in 1-5 years
- 8.4 percent became eligible 1-5 years ago
- 1.7 percent became eligible more than 5 years ago
Gender
- 33.4 percent are female and 66.6 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 Alaska Native
- 4.8 percent reported their race to be Asian
- 11.7 percent reported their race to be Black or African American
- 0.2 percent reported their race to be Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
- 70.5 percent reported their race to be White
- 0.2 percent reported their race to be more than one of the categories
- 11.4 percent declined to report their race
Ethnicity
"Hispanic or Latino" is now considered an ethnic, not a racial, category that is registered separately and in addition to the above racial categories.
- 7.1 percent of Airmen call themselves "Hispanic/Latino"
- 92.9 percent "not Hispanic/Latino"
Overseas
- 10.8 percent of the total civilian work force are assigned overseas
- 40.5 percent are U.S. citizens including U.S. nationals.
- 59.4 percent are local nationals
Military service
- 2.6 percent of the civilian work force are retired officers
- 15.4 percent of the civilian work force are retired enlisted
- 30.2 percent of the civilian work force have some military service (not retired)
- 51.7 percent have no military service
Education
White collar
- 25.4 percent have a bachelor's degree
-- 16.9 percent have a master's and 2 percent have a doctorate or professional degree
- 24.2 percent have an associate's degree or have accumulated hours toward a bachelor's degree
- 28.6 percent have at least a high school education
- 1.2 percent have less than a high school diploma
Blue collar
- 4.4 percent have a bachelor's degree
-- 0.4 percent have a master's degree
- 27.3 percent have an associate's degree or have accumulated hours toward a bachelor's degree
- 65.7 percent have at least a high school education or equivalent
- 1.8 percent have less than a high school diploma
Developmental education
- 5,936 civilian employees have completed one or more military schools
-- 3,364 have completed squadron officer school
-- 3,292 have completed intermediate developmental education
-- 1,545 have completed senior developmental education
Executive-level training
- 330 employees have completed executive-level training
-- 19 Congressional fellowship programs
-- 276 executive and senior leadership
-- 27 public administration graduate school
-- 12 management graduate school