O-1E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,124 / month
San Francisco$5,124
Grand Forks$1,728
Fort Huachuca$1,716
Fort Benning$1,713
Auburn$1,704
Bismarck$1,704
White Sands MR$1,698
Fort Knox$1,695
Fort Hood$1,692
Yuma$1,692
Youngstown$1,188
Bismarck is #242 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 Bismarck0 – $2,388 / month
E-1$1,125
E-2$1,125
E-3$1,125
E-4$1,125
E-5$1,287
E-6$1,653
E-7$1,698
E-8$1,746
E-9$1,899
W-1$1,668
W-2$1,716
W-3$1,923
W-4$2,211
W-5$2,277
O-1E$1,704
O-2E$1,860
O-3E$2,196
O-1$1,398
O-2$1,701
O-3$1,980
O-4$2,259
O-5$2,292
O-6$2,349
O-7$2,388
Promoting to O-2E here adds $156 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 Bismarck to San Francisco at O-1E is worth $3,420 a month — about 22 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $156 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. $1,704 a month of BAH takes more than $1,704 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.