E-5 without dependents, every station0 – $3,147 / month
San Diego$3,147
Camp Pendleton$3,093
Honolulu County$2,856
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,157
JB Lewis-McChord$2,121
Fort Stewart$1,947
Norfolk$1,908
Fort Carson$1,860
Fort Campbell$1,593
Fort Hood$1,530
Fort Bragg$1,527
San Antonio (JBSA)$1,500
Fort Benning$1,482
Camp Lejeune$1,476
Fort Bliss$1,437
Fort Drum$1,422
Fort Riley$1,158
Camp Lejeune is #14 of 17. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $1,989 a month —
$23,868 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Camp Lejeune0 – $2,097 / month
E-1$1,323
E-2$1,323
E-3$1,323
E-4$1,323
E-5$1,476
E-6$1,569
E-7$1,593
E-8$1,662
E-9$1,761
W-1$1,590
W-2$1,659
W-3$1,776
W-4$1,950
W-5$2,004
O-1E$1,599
O-2E$1,740
O-3E$1,935
O-1$1,566
O-2$1,596
O-3$1,809
O-4$1,989
O-5$2,016
O-6$2,064
O-7$2,097
Promoting to E-6 here adds $93 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 Camp Lejeune to San Diego at E-5 is worth $1,671 a month — about 18 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $93 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 7% 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. $1,476 a month of BAH takes more than $1,476 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.