O-6 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,633 / month
Westchester County$6,633
Eglin AFB$3,393
San Bernardino$3,393
Fort G. G. Meade$3,390
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$3,348
Ann Arbor$3,339
Ketchikan$3,315
Quantico$3,306
Stockton$3,294
New London$3,288
Anniston$1,665
Ann Arbor is #70 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,968 a month —
$59,616 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Ann Arbor0 – $3,396 / month
E-1$1,719
E-2$1,719
E-3$1,719
E-4$1,719
E-5$1,920
E-6$2,310
E-7$2,385
E-8$2,667
E-9$2,820
W-1$2,325
W-2$2,664
W-3$2,838
W-4$3,099
W-5$3,204
O-1E$2,556
O-2E$2,787
O-3E$3,072
O-1$2,019
O-2$2,472
O-3$2,889
O-4$3,180
O-5$3,240
O-6$3,339
O-7$3,396
Promoting to O-7 here adds $57 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 Ann Arbor to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $3,294 a month — about 58 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $57 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 25% 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. $3,339 a month of BAH takes more than $3,339 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.