W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Whidbey Island$2,766
County Cost Group 850$2,763
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,760
Rome$2,760
Bremerton$2,751
Charlottesville$2,733
Corvallis$2,733
Dahlgren$2,733
Atlanta$2,727
Youngstown$1,350
Bremerton is #109 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Bremerton0 – $3,462 / month
E-1$2,265
E-2$2,265
E-3$2,265
E-4$2,265
E-5$2,364
E-6$2,730
E-7$2,844
E-8$2,967
E-9$3,105
W-1$2,751
W-2$2,895
W-3$3,048
W-4$3,126
W-5$3,228
O-1E$2,865
O-2E$3,024
O-3E$3,144
O-1$2,415
O-2$2,727
O-3$3,045
O-4$3,258
O-5$3,411
O-6$3,438
O-7$3,462
Promoting to W-2 here adds $144 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 Bremerton to San Francisco at W-1 is worth $2,721 a month — about 19 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $144 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 23% 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. $2,751 a month of BAH takes more than $2,751 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.