Agency Report

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Best Places to Work Rank
out of 415 Agency Subcomponents

2018 Engagement Score
68.0

Change from 2017
3.1

Parent Agency: Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff, Defense Agencies, and Department of Defense Field Activities (Engagement Score: 63.2)

Mission

To ensure the personnel readiness, policy, planning and training of their respective military services for the combatant commanders to utilize

	Rank	Change (2017‑18)	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Engagement Score	148 of 415	3.1	68.0	64.9	57.8

Category	Rank	Change (2017‑18)	2018	2017	2016
Effective Leadership	101 of 408	1.6	64.5	62.9	56.8
Effective Leadership: Empowerment	89 of 408	3.0	58.7	55.7	46.3
Effective Leadership: Fairness	41 of 408	1.1	69.0	67.9	61.6
Effective Leadership: Senior Leaders	109 of 408	0.2	58.4	58.2	50.6
Effective Leadership: Supervisors	201 of 408	2.5	71.3	68.8	65.7
Employee Skills–Mission Match	217 of 410	3.2	78.4	75.2	68.7
Pay	58 of 410	3.6	74.4	70.8	62.5
Strategic Management	223 of 409	5.4	59.4	54.0	49.9
Teamwork	107 of 409	2.2	75.2	73.0	67.0
Innovation	99 of 409	3.9	70.5	66.6	60.3
Training and Development	301 of 410	3.0	58.0	55.0	49.0
Work–Life Balance	138 of 409	1.5	67.2	65.7	60.7
Support for Diversity	170 of 409	2.2	64.1	61.9	57.1
Performance-Based Rewards and Advancement	140 of 408	4.4	53.3	48.9	43.7

Lower Quartile (0–25%)

Below Median (25–50%)

Above Median (50–75%)

Upper Quartile (75–100%)

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Employees joined (2017)
31 ( 3.5% )

Average joined (2013-2017)
35

Workforce with less than three years of service
7.4%

Employees left (2017)
57 ( 6.5% )

Average left (2013-2017)
61