Table B-22.  Active Component Commissioned Officer Gains and Corps, FY19: by Service and Age with Civilian Comparison Groups
  SERVICE         CIVILIAN, 21-39 YRS
ARMY NAVY MARINE CORPS AIR FORCE TOTAL DoD COLLEGE GRADUATES1
AGE #      %      #      %      #      %      #      %      #      %      #        %      
Officer Gains 2
17-20 5 0.08 4 0.09 2 0.13 4 0.08 15 0.09
21 459 7.22 327 7.70 105 6.73 267 5.62 1,158 6.85 194,138 0.67
22 2,050 32.27 1,193 28.10 535 34.29 1,140 23.97 4,918 29.08 759,479 2.61
23 967 15.22 610 14.37 322 20.64 699 14.70 2,598 15.36 1,258,813 4.32
24 420 6.61 283 6.67 145 9.29 308 6.48 1,156 6.83 1,425,173 4.89
25 299 4.71 230 5.42 93 5.96 253 5.32 875 5.17 1,528,536 5.24
26 384 6.04 240 5.65 59 3.78 263 5.53 946 5.59 1,681,924 5.77
27 273 4.30 184 4.33 75 4.81 268 5.64 800 4.73 1,778,992 6.10
28 220 3.46 173 4.08 48 3.08 241 5.07 682 4.03 1,874,198 6.43
29 202 3.18 146 3.44 51 3.27 209 4.40 608 3.59 1,918,133 6.58
30 180 2.83 119 2.80 34 2.18 171 3.60 504 2.98 1,787,486 6.13
31 169 2.66 132 3.11 29 1.86 167 3.51 497 2.94 1,768,022 6.07
32 138 2.17 129 3.04 19 1.22 175 3.68 461 2.73 1,766,693 6.06
33 129 2.03 114 2.69 10 0.64 153 3.22 406 2.40 1,851,789 6.35
34 73 1.15 96 2.26 14 0.90 115 2.42 298 1.76 1,752,072 6.01
35-39 226 3.56 206 4.85 15 0.96 242 5.09 689 4.07 7,802,234 26.77
40+ 157 2.47 59 1.39 2 0.13 80 1.68 298 1.76
Unknown 2 0.03   0 0   2 0.13   0 0   4 0.02   0 0
TOTAL 6,353 100 4,245 100 1,560 100 4,755 100 16,913 100 29,147,682 100
  SERVICE         CIVILIAN, 21-59 YRS
ARMY NAVY MARINE CORPS AIR FORCE TOTAL DoD COLLEGE GRADUATES3
AGE #      %      #      %      #      %      #      %      #      %      #        %      
Officer Corps 4
17-19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20-24 9,353 11.93 5,462 10.24 2,531 13.12 5,838 9.14 23,184 10.79 2,919,300 5.49
25-29 19,634 25.04 12,675 23.76 5,560 28.82 15,259 23.88 53,128 24.72 7,798,826 14.66
30-34 15,156 19.33 10,848 20.34 4,166 21.59 16,009 25.05 46,179 21.48 8,093,143 15.21
35-39 13,105 16.71 9,160 17.17 3,174 16.45 11,709 18.32 37,148 17.28 7,802,234 14.66
40-44 10,384 13.24 7,322 13.73 2,099 10.88 8,019 12.55 27,824 12.94 7,041,071 13.23
45-49 6,974 8.89 4,919 9.22 1,258 6.52 4,584 7.17 17,735 8.25 7,033,737 13.22
50+ 3,811 4.86 2,949 5.53 504 2.61 2,484 3.89 9,748 4.53 12,526,422 23.54
Unknown 6 0.01   4 0.01   0 0   0 0   10 0   0 0
TOTAL 78,423 100   53,339 100   19,292 100   63,902 100   214,956 100   53,214,733 100
   
1. Civilian comparison group includes 21-39 year-old college graduates in the noninstitutional civilian population, October 2018-September 2019 average.
2. Officer gains reflect an addition to the officer ranks between 1 October 2018 and 30 September 2019.  This addition can reflect a new accession, a movement from another component, or the return of the officer to the same component.  The OSD definition of an officer gain is a transaction in a database that reflects the addition of an SSN that was not in the previous file.
3. Civilian comparison group includes college graduates in the civilian labor force (21-59 year-old), September 2019.
4. Officer corps reflects commissioned officers serving as of 30 September 2019.
Rows and columns may not add to totals due to rounding.
Source:  Civilian data from Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey.  Military data are provided by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).