Personellsatsar til bruk i langtidsplanlegginga i Forsvaret – metode for utrekning og satsar basert på rekneskapen frå 2011 til 2013

The sum of wage costs and personnel related goods and services constitutes about half of the total Norwegian defence costs. Based on cost- and man-year accounts, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment has over several years calculated average personnel unit costs for use in defence long term planning. The use of these unit costs have over the last few years become more and more widespread, leading to a greater need for them to be thoroughly documented. This report is a contribution to this need. In this report, we calculate personnel costs for personnel categories (non-commissioned (NC) officers, commissioned (C) officers, contract salary personnel (CSP), civilans and enlisted personnel), detailed on defence branch and activity level – ”high” for active units, ”low” for less active units, management and support, and ”FRIFLO” for certain support and maintenance units. This gives detailed unit costs for personnel with different characteristics. High activity units typically have a lower base wage than low activity units, but higher activity based wages, whereas FRIFLO units have both a lower base wage and lower activity based wages. The table below gives the costs for combinations of personnel category, activity level and some defence branches. The variation in costs underlines why we make the distinction between activity levels and personnel categories. Army (1731) Navy (1732) Air Force (1733) High Low FRIFLO High Low FRIFLO High Low FRIFLO Off. (NC) 738 000 772 000 689 000 1 008 000 812 000 843 000 691 000 638 000 612 000 Off. (C) 939 000 947 000 810 000 1 142 000 1 029 000 1 043 000 983 000 935 000 801 000 CSP - - 576 000 - - - - - 649 000 Civilans 623 000 741 000 602 000 - 743 000 706 000 - 676 000 585 000 Enlisted 583 000 551 000 528 000 797 000 630 000 659 000 - 548 000 490 000 Conscripts 161 000 161 000 161 000 191 000 191 000 191 000 157 000 157 000 157 000 This report contains a detailed description of how the unit costs are calculated and how they are used. For example, Air Force employees can receive payments from the Air Force as well as from the search and rescue helicopter branch. This flow of money across military branches, called chapter migration, is included in the unit costs in the table above. If one does long term defence branch planning, one has to adjust for this. This report shows how this is done. The report also describes how we deal with money that cannot be attributed to man-years, and how we remove costs originating from international operations. More detailed unit costs can be found in chapter 9 and in relevant appendices.