E-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,067 / month
New York City$5,067
Provo$1,929
Rome$1,929
County Cost Group 810$1,923
Duluth$1,917
Astoria$1,914
El Centro$1,905
Carlisle Barracks$1,902
Eastern Panhandle$1,899
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$1,896
Youngstown$1,134
Astoria is #171 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,933 a month —
$47,196 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Astoria0 – $3,729 / month
E-1$1,914
E-2$1,914
E-3$1,914
E-4$1,914
E-5$2,055
E-6$2,796
E-7$2,949
E-8$3,114
E-9$3,291
W-1$2,817
W-2$3,015
W-3$3,219
W-4$3,318
W-5$3,444
O-1E$2,979
O-2E$3,189
O-3E$3,339
O-1$2,145
O-2$2,787
O-3$3,213
O-4$3,480
O-5$3,672
O-6$3,702
O-7$3,729
Promoting to E-5 here adds $141 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 Astoria to New York City at E-4 is worth $3,153 a month — about 22 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $141 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 18% 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. $1,914 a month of BAH takes more than $1,914 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.