O-6 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,633 / month
Westchester County$6,633
Rome$2,859
Allentown$2,856
Coastal Maine$2,850
Corvallis$2,850
Beaufort$2,835
Abilene$2,832
Dallas$2,829
Spokane$2,826
Dahlgren$2,823
Anniston$1,665
Beaufort is #117 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 Beaufort0 – $2,883 / month
E-1$1,875
E-2$1,875
E-3$1,875
E-4$1,875
E-5$2,103
E-6$2,235
E-7$2,319
E-8$2,490
E-9$2,607
W-1$2,304
W-2$2,487
W-3$2,622
W-4$2,808
W-5$2,829
O-1E$2,400
O-2E$2,580
O-3E$2,805
O-1$2,232
O-2$2,379
O-3$2,661
O-4$2,817
O-5$2,832
O-6$2,835
O-7$2,883
Promoting to O-7 here adds $48 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 Beaufort to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $3,798 a month — about 79 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $48 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 22% 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. $2,835 a month of BAH takes more than $2,835 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.