▲ RAISE+$1,149+$13,788/yr · like +$17,677 of salary
What this rate means
O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
County Cost Group 510$1,623
Lake Charles$1,623
Columbia$1,620
Gulfport$1,617
Cannon AFB$1,590
Altus AFB$1,560
Meridian$1,542
Albany$1,536
Hattiesburg$1,521
Youngstown$1,332
Cannon AFB is #330 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 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 O-3 here adds $285 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 O-2 is worth $3,861 a month — about 14 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $285 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 19% 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. $1,590 a month of BAH takes more than $1,590 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.