E-7 with dependents, every station0 – $4,494 / month
Camp Pendleton$4,494
San Diego$4,446
Honolulu County$4,098
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$3,045
JB Lewis-McChord$2,994
Norfolk$2,604
Fort Stewart$2,493
Fort Carson$2,487
Fort Campbell$2,244
Fort Bliss$2,172
San Antonio (JBSA)$2,112
Fort Drum$2,103
Fort Bragg$2,094
Fort Hood$2,070
Fort Benning$2,004
Camp Lejeune$1,995
Fort Riley$1,845
Camp Lejeune is #16 of 17. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $2,649 a month —
$31,788 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Camp Lejeune0 – $2,586 / month
E-1$1,578
E-2$1,578
E-3$1,578
E-4$1,578
E-5$1,584
E-6$1,944
E-7$1,995
E-8$2,049
E-9$2,160
W-1$1,962
W-2$2,016
W-3$2,088
W-4$2,187
W-5$2,316
O-1E$2,001
O-2E$2,073
O-3E$2,208
O-1$1,635
O-2$1,941
O-3$2,085
O-4$2,355
O-5$2,553
O-6$2,571
O-7$2,586
Promoting to E-8 here adds $54 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 Camp Pendleton at E-7 is worth $2,499 a month — about 46 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $54 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 25% 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. $1,995 a month of BAH takes more than $1,995 of basic pay to match, which is why comparing a civilian salary against military base pay alone understates the gap.
Ad slot — in-content, after the answerPlaced below the number, never above it. VA-loan and PCS-move advertisers bid here.
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.