▲ RAISE+$1,113+$13,356/yr · like +$17,123 of salary
What this rate means
E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Columbia$1,377
Wichita$1,377
Albany$1,371
County Cost Group 570$1,371
Cannon AFB$1,365
Paducah$1,365
County Cost Group 560$1,362
Lake Charles$1,356
County Cost Group 550$1,353
Anniston$1,185
Cannon AFB is #318 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month —
$47,304 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Cannon AFB0 – $1,968 / month
E-1$1,260
E-2$1,260
E-3$1,260
E-4$1,260
E-5$1,365
E-6$1,593
E-7$1,695
E-8$1,806
E-9$1,890
W-1$1,611
W-2$1,740
W-3$1,878
W-4$1,893
W-5$1,917
O-1E$1,713
O-2E$1,857
O-3E$1,896
O-1$1,401
O-2$1,590
O-3$1,875
O-4$1,920
O-5$1,944
O-6$1,956
O-7$1,968
Promoting to E-6 here adds $228 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 Cannon AFB to San Francisco at E-5 is worth $3,762 a month — about 17 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $228 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. $1,365 a month of BAH takes more than $1,365 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.