O-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
Westchester County$8,064
Bridgeport$3,525
Sacramento$3,525
College Station$3,513
Fort Myers Beach$3,504
Beale AFB$3,492
Knoxville$3,492
JB Lewis-McChord$3,471
Allentown$3,465
County Cost Group 840$3,459
Youngstown$1,827
Beale AFB is #103 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,237 a month —
$74,844 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Beale AFB0 – $3,546 / month
E-1$2,733
E-2$2,733
E-3$2,733
E-4$2,733
E-5$2,967
E-6$3,132
E-7$3,150
E-8$3,159
E-9$3,195
W-1$3,147
W-2$3,156
W-3$3,168
W-4$3,216
W-5$3,315
O-1E$3,153
O-2E$3,162
O-3E$3,231
O-1$2,994
O-2$3,129
O-3$3,165
O-4$3,342
O-5$3,492
O-6$3,522
O-7$3,546
Promoting to O-6 here adds $30 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 Beale AFB to Westchester County at O-5 is worth $4,572 a month — about 152 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $30 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 11% 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. $3,492 a month of BAH takes more than $3,492 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.