E-7 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,832 / month
Westchester County$5,832
Minneapolis$2,826
Rome$2,790
Corvallis$2,769
Dahlgren$2,763
Coastal Maine$2,760
County Cost Group 840$2,745
Knoxville$2,745
Atlanta$2,730
Reno$2,721
Youngstown$1,491
Coastal Maine is #116 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,341 a month —
$52,092 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Coastal Maine0 – $3,228 / month
E-1$2,052
E-2$2,052
E-3$2,052
E-4$2,052
E-5$2,193
E-6$2,697
E-7$2,760
E-8$2,826
E-9$2,919
W-1$2,718
W-2$2,787
W-3$2,871
W-4$2,937
W-5$3,027
O-1E$2,769
O-2E$2,856
O-3E$2,952
O-1$2,259
O-2$2,694
O-3$2,868
O-4$3,051
O-5$3,183
O-6$3,207
O-7$3,228
Promoting to E-8 here adds $66 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 Coastal Maine to Westchester County at E-7 is worth $3,072 a month — about 47 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $66 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 33% 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. $2,760 a month of BAH takes more than $2,760 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.