W-2 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,193 / month
San Francisco$5,193
Shreveport$1,884
County Cost Group 780$1,881
Fort Leavenworth$1,881
Fort Bliss$1,878
Corpus Christi$1,875
Fort Campbell$1,875
Tallahassee$1,875
Greensboro$1,872
Little Rock$1,872
Youngstown$1,224
Corpus Christi is #219 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,969 a month —
$47,628 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Corpus Christi0 – $2,496 / month
E-1$1,278
E-2$1,278
E-3$1,278
E-4$1,278
E-5$1,413
E-6$1,662
E-7$1,734
E-8$1,878
E-9$2,001
W-1$1,680
W-2$1,875
W-3$2,019
W-4$2,235
W-5$2,331
O-1E$1,785
O-2E$1,974
O-3E$2,211
O-1$1,494
O-2$1,743
O-3$2,061
O-4$2,310
O-5$2,364
O-6$2,454
O-7$2,496
Promoting to W-3 here adds $144 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 Corpus Christi to San Francisco at W-2 is worth $3,318 a month — about 23 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $144 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 25% 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. $1,875 a month of BAH takes more than $1,875 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.