O-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
Westchester County$8,064
Fort Knox$2,943
Auburn$2,934
Scott AFB$2,928
Ocala$2,922
Cheyenne$2,916
Kings Bay$2,916
Fort Carson$2,913
Grand Haven$2,913
County Cost Group 790$2,907
Youngstown$1,827
Cheyenne is #186 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,237 a month —
$74,844 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Cheyenne0 – $2,955 / month
E-1$1,539
E-2$1,539
E-3$1,539
E-4$1,539
E-5$1,653
E-6$2,217
E-7$2,301
E-8$2,388
E-9$2,520
W-1$2,238
W-2$2,334
W-3$2,445
W-4$2,547
W-5$2,676
O-1E$2,313
O-2E$2,427
O-3E$2,568
O-1$1,725
O-2$2,211
O-3$2,442
O-4$2,715
O-5$2,916
O-6$2,937
O-7$2,955
Promoting to O-6 here adds $21 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 Cheyenne to Westchester County at O-5 is worth $5,148 a month — about 245 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $21 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 24% 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. $2,916 a month of BAH takes more than $2,916 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.