All pay, in all its forms, is to 'attract and retain' and SP is there to address an additional need to 'attract and retain' above and beyond basic pay.
So why only target SP on PVR? Why not apply the same logic to all personnel if reducing pay on PVR makes so much sense?
We would save a bunch of cash if every doc or dentist who left outside of an option point retired on an abated standard flt lt, sqn ldr or wg cdr pay scale.
I would suggest we would cost a fortune in the long run to attract and retain such personnel in the future if we continue to behave in this way. People are always going to point at the absurdity of it all when two 43 year old sqn ldrs from the same sqn/office/det PVR. One looses all his SP and the other stays on PA Spine in receipt of all his pay - does this not sound strange?