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Title page 1

Contents 5

ARMED FORCES' PAY REVIEW BODY 2026 - REPORT SUMMARY 7

RECOMMENDATIONS 9

Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT 12

Senior Officers 12

2025 recommendations 12

Our Terms of Reference and remit letter 12

Our evidence base 13

Our 2026 Report 13

Operational context 14

Strategic context 15

Our remit group 16

Chapter 2 - ECONOMIC CONTEXT 17

Economic indicators 17

Pay comparability 22

Chapter 3 - WORKFORCE DATA 26

Workforce strength 26

Recruitment and retention 29

Diversity in the Armed Forces 32

Chapter 4 - MOTIVATION AND MORALE 34

Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey 34

Continuous Working Patterns Survey 38

Reserves Continuous Attitude Survey 39

Visits and discussion groups 40

Service Families' Federations 44

Chapter 5 - SENIOR OFFICERS 46

The Senior Officer workforce 46

Motivation and morale of Senior Officers 48

Chapter 6 - MAIN PAY RECOMMENDATION 54

Context for our recommendation 54

Our approach 55

Main pay recommendation 57

Chapter 7 - RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SPECIFIC GROUPS AND COMPENSATORY ALLOWANCES 60

Review of remuneration for specific cohorts 60

Recruitment and Retention Payments 68

Targeted payments and pay supplements 68

Compensatory allowances 70

Chapter 8 - ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD CHARGES 73

Accommodation context 73

Service Family Accommodation 73

Single Living Accommodation 76

Home ownership support 77

Feedback on Service accommodation 78

The accommodation subsidy 80

Accommodation charges 81

Food and catering 84

Chapter 9 - EMERGING ISSUES 86

Strategic issues and transformation 86

Pay and reward 86

Workforce 87

Next year's round 87

Conclusion 88

Appendix 1 - SALARIES (INCLUDING X-FACTOR) FOR 1 APRIL 2025 AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1 APRIL 2026 89

Appendix 2 - RECOMMENDED RATES FOR TARGETED PAYMENTS AND PAY SUPPLEMENTS 112

Appendix 3 - RECOMMENDED RATES OF RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION PAYMENTS AND COMPENSATORY ALLOWANCES FROM 1 APRIL 2026 114

Appendix 4 - COST OF AFPRB 2026 RECOMMENDATIONS 120

Appendix 5 - TRANSCRIPT OF REMIT LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE TO THE CHAIR OF THE AFPRB, DATED 22 JULY 2025 121

Appendix 6 - AFPRB VISITS 123

Appendix 7 - HISTORICAL VIEW OF PAY COMPARABILITY 2014-15 TO 2024-25 124

GLOSSARY OF TERMS 127

Tables 24

Table 2.1. Starting pay in selected public sector occupations and graduate recruitment survey, 2025 24

Table 3.1. Representation of female personnel and ethnic minorities (excluding white minorities) personnel in the UK Regular Forces,... 32

Table 4.1. AFCAS - Top factors influencing Service personnel's intentions to stay or leave the Service, 2025 36

Table 5.1. Strength of Senior Officers, by NATO Rank, Tri-Service and single Service, 1 April 2025 compared with 1 July 2024 46

Table 5.2. AFCAS - Top factors influencing the feeder group's intentions to stay or leave the Armed Forces, 2025 48

Table 5.3. AFCAS - Top factors influencing Senior Officers' intentions to stay or leave the Armed Forces, 2025 49

Figures 18

Figure 2.1. CPI inflation rate (first quarter 2021 to fourth quarter 2025), OBR CPI inflation rate forecast (first quarter 2026 to first quarter 2031) 18

Figure 2.2. Real Household Disposable Income per person outturn and OBR forecast, 2022-23 to 2030-31 19

Figure 2.3. Vacancies to unemployment ratio, rolling three-month periods, three months ending December 2020 to three months ending December 2025 20

Figure 2.4. Average Weekly Earnings growth in the private sector, public sector, and whole economy: Total Pay, three-month average annual... 21

Figure 2.5. Position of the OR2 pay framework including X-Factor in the distribution of earnings across the UK economy for 2014-15 to 2024-25 23

Figure 2.6. Position of the OF1 pay framework including X-Factor in the distribution of earnings across the UK economy for 2014-15 to 2024-25 23

Figure 3.1. Strength of UK Forces, Tri-Service, 1 October 2015 to 1 October 2025 26

Figure 3.2. Strength of UK Regular Forces, AFPRB remit group rank distribution, Tri-Service, 1 April 2025 27

Figure 3.3. FTTS and FTTTS against Workforce Requirement, Tri-Service, 1 October 2015 to 1 October 2025 28

Figure 3.4. UK Regular Forces total intake and total outflow, Tri-Service, 12 months ending 30 September 2020 to 12 months ending 30 September 2025 29

Figure 3.5. Voluntary Outflow rate, Tri-Service and single Service, 12 months ending 30 September 2020 to 12 months ending 30 September 2025 30

Figure 4.1. AFCAS - Attitudes towards pay, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 35

Figure 4.2. AFCAS - Attitudes towards Service life and job in general, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 35

Figure 4.3. AFCAS - Attitudes towards feeling valued and whether personnel would recommend joining the Service to others, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 36

Figure 4.4. AFCAS - Attitudes towards workload, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 37

Figure 4.5. AFCAS - Attitudes concerning morale, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 37

Figure 4.6. CWP - Working hours of Service personnel by rank group, Tri-Service and single Service, 2020-21 to 2024-25 38

Figure 4.7. ResCAS - Attitudes towards pay, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 39

Figure 4.8. ResCAS - Attitudes towards Service life, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 40

Figure 5.1. AFCAS - Senior Officers' attitudes on pay and satisfaction with their lives and their job, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 49

Figure 5.2. AFCAS - Senior Officers' attitudes on personal morale and morale of the Services, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 49

Figure 5.3. Senior Officer Survey, attitudes on remuneration and non-pay benefits, 2021 to 2025 51

Figure 8.1. AFCAS - Attitudes towards Service accommodation, Tri-Service, 2021 to 2025 78

Figure 8.2. Annual rate of CPI actual rents for housing, November 2015 to November 2024, compared to annual uplifts to Band A SFA rental charges,... 82

Figure 8.3. Annual rate of CPI actual rents for housing, November 2015 to November 2024, compared to annual uplifts to SLA rental charges, 2016 to 2025 84

Appendix Tables 90

Table 1.1. Other Ranks Trade Supplement 1 90

Table 1.2. Other Ranks Trade Supplement 2 91

Table 1.3. Other Ranks Trade Supplement 3 92

Table 1.4. Other Ranks Trade Supplement 4 93

Table 1.5. Officers 94

Table 1.6. Clearance Divers - Other Ranks 96

Table 1.7. Military Provost Guard Service 97

Table 1.8. Nursing - Other Ranks 98

Table 1.9. Nursing - Officers 99

Table 1.10. Allied Health Professionals - Other Ranks 100

Table 1.11. Special Forces - Other Ranks 101

Table 1.12. Special Forces - Officers Commissioned from the Ranks 102

Table 1.13. Professional Aviators - Officers and Other Ranks 103

Table 1.14. Regular Aircrew Pay Spine 1 (APS1) - Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer Pilots 104

Table 1.15. Regular Aircrew Pay Spine 2 (APS2) - Non-Pilot Other Ranks 105

Table 1.16. Chaplain Officers 106

Table 1.17. Veterinary Officers 107

Table 1.18. Officers Commissioned from the Ranks 108

Table 1.19. OF6 Medical Officers and Dental Officers 108

Table 1.20. Accredited consultants 109

Table 1.21. Accredited GMPs and GDPs 110

Table 1.22. Non-accredited GMPs and GDPs 111

Table 1.23. Medical and Dental Cadets 111

Table 1.24. Allowances for GMPs and GDPs 111

Table 2.1. Professional Supplement (Aircrew) 112

Table 2.2. Aircrew Professional Recognition Award 112

Table 2.3. Engineer Professional Recognition Award 112

Table 2.4. Engineering Supplement Pay 113

Table 2.5. Skills Based Supplement (SBSup) 113

Table 2.6. Unified Career Management - Cyber Skills Payment 113

Table 2.7. Unified Career Management - Human Intelligence Skills Payment 113