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Housing Allowances. BAH Calculator. Military Dictionary. Military Occupational Specialties. Learn more about Military Discounts. E-6 PO1 Previous. Yet the statistics for individual ratings fluctuate depending on the health of each rating. For a high-demand career field like Explosive Ordnance Disposal, sailors make chief in less than 12 years on average.
Meanwhile, for a more competitive rating like Personnel Specialist, it takes on average more than 15 years. And within the individual ratings, the path to the chiefs mess varies a lot. Some sailors advance very quickly, potentially making chief in less than seven years. Others take more than 20 years to make the cut near the end of a career, when they are dangerously close to being shown the door because of up-or-out limits.
A detailed look at the Navy advancement data can help sailors calibrate their hopes and expectations. If nothing else, he said, it's a good gauge in making career decisions. How long does it take to make chief? The average, minimum and maximum time in service it takes to make chief petty officer for the 25 most populous ratings. How does your rating stack up to the rest? The E-7 selection board is by far the largest of any Navy board.
The advancement rate varies over time. Since , selection rates have averaged 22 percent, with a high of over 28 percent coming in fiscal and a low of about 12 percent in fiscal Fastest to chief. Since , there have been three sailors who ahve advanced to chief petty officer in under six years. And in each case — an intelligence specialist in , an operations specialist in and a damage controlman in — they did it with under three years time in grade as a first class. When the word came down, he had five and a half years in the Navy, and was still under six years in when his official advancement date arrived four months later.
Sure, the stars aligned in a way for Rosario to achieve the milestone in less than half the time it takes the rest of the Navy, but that doesn't mean it was simply gifted to him.
Rosario credits hard work, exhausting study and plenty of good mentorship as the reasons he made chief petty officer in record time. And he did so despite experiencing failure, too. Rosario made E-4 after being meritoriously promoted for finishing on top of his A school.
But his first time taking an exam and competing against his peers for E-5, he missed the mark by 5 points. The next cycle, he sewed on second class and has not looked back since.
Normally, a sailor has to wait three years as an E-5 to test for E But the rules allow COs the ability to waive a year for sailors who get "Early Promote" recommendations on their evaluations. Twice, Rosario competed a year early for the next paygrade, first putting on E-6 and then chief petty officer, each on the first try. Hard work and studiousness are ultimately the only things in a sailor's control that will ensure being in position for advancement. The best shot.
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