O-1E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,124 / month
San Francisco$5,124
Panama City$2,160
County Cost Group 820$2,157
Memphis$2,151
Grand Rapids$2,145
Abilene$2,139
Lemoore NAS$2,136
Kings Bay$2,130
Salt Lake City$2,127
Eastern Shore$2,118
Youngstown$1,188
Abilene is #155 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,936 a month —
$47,232 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Abilene0 – $2,859 / month
E-1$1,380
E-2$1,380
E-3$1,380
E-4$1,380
E-5$1,545
E-6$2,115
E-7$2,133
E-8$2,145
E-9$2,352
W-1$2,130
W-2$2,142
W-3$2,382
W-4$2,817
W-5$2,826
O-1E$2,139
O-2E$2,286
O-3E$2,814
O-1$1,644
O-2$2,136
O-3$2,475
O-4$2,820
O-5$2,829
O-6$2,832
O-7$2,859
Promoting to O-2E here adds $147 a
month. The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
01
Where you are stationed outweighs what you are paid. Moving from Abilene to San Francisco at O-1E is worth $2,985 a month — about 20 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $147 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 33% here. That is a status your finance office determines, not a box you tick — and it is the single largest lever on this page that is not a change of address.
03
None of it is taxed. $2,139 a month of BAH takes more than $2,139 of basic pay to match, which is why comparing a civilian salary against military base pay alone understates the gap.
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Things the rate table doesn't tell you
01
“With dependents” is a dependency status, not a marital status. A single member paying child support can be authorized BAH-Diff; a married dual-military couple with no children is not automatically the with-dependents rate for both. If your situation is unusual, your finance office decides — not this table.
02
O-8, O-9 and O-10 draw the same BAH as O-7. The table stops there for a reason, not because it is missing rows.
03
This is CONUS BAH only. Overseas is OHA, which works differently — it reimburses actual rent up to a cap, with separate utility and move-in allowances. Alaska and Hawaii are BAH; Germany, Japan and Korea are OHA.