E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Bismarck$1,596
Fallon NAS$1,596
County Cost Group 740$1,590
Holloman AFB$1,590
Camp Lejeune$1,584
Lafayette$1,584
Akron$1,581
Goodfellow AFB$1,578
Fort Rucker$1,572
Peoria$1,572
China Lake$1,563
County Cost Group 730$1,557
Sioux Falls$1,554
Johnson City$1,548
Minot AFB$1,548
Scott AFB$1,542
Champaign$1,539
County Cost Group 720$1,536
Lexington$1,536
Sault Ste Marie$1,536
Huntington$1,533
Anniston$1,185
China Lake is #270 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 China Lake0 – $2,694 / month
E-1$1,524
E-2$1,524
E-3$1,524
E-4$1,524
E-5$1,563
E-6$1,767
E-7$1,905
E-8$2,058
E-9$2,238
W-1$1,785
W-2$1,968
W-3$2,157
W-4$2,268
W-5$2,403
O-1E$1,932
O-2E$2,130
O-3E$2,289
O-1$1,596
O-2$1,764
O-3$2,154
O-4$2,445
O-5$2,658
O-6$2,676
O-7$2,694
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from China Lake to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,564 a month — about 17 promotions at this grade.
Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.
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.