▲ RAISE+$1,131+$13,572/yr · like +$17,400 of salary
What this rate means
O-2E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,268 / month
San Francisco$5,268
County Cost Group 550$1,479
Lake Charles$1,473
County Cost Group 540$1,470
County Cost Group 530$1,464
Cannon AFB$1,461
County Cost Group 520$1,461
Alexandria$1,458
Fort Chaffee$1,458
County Cost Group 510$1,455
Youngstown$1,305
Cannon AFB is #325 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,963 a month —
$47,556 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Cannon AFB0 – $1,887 / month
E-1$1,050
E-2$1,050
E-3$1,050
E-4$1,050
E-5$1,107
E-6$1,194
E-7$1,272
E-8$1,416
E-9$1,476
W-1$1,236
W-2$1,413
W-3$1,485
W-4$1,611
W-5$1,719
O-1E$1,362
O-2E$1,461
O-3E$1,584
O-1$1,152
O-2$1,335
O-3$1,506
O-4$1,695
O-5$1,755
O-6$1,857
O-7$1,887
Promoting to O-3E here adds $123 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-2E is worth $3,807 a month — about 31 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $123 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 27% 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. $1,461 a month of BAH takes more than $1,461 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.