O-2E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,268 / month
San Francisco$5,268
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,571
Austin$2,556
County Cost Group 850$2,553
Portland$2,541
Corvallis$2,529
Elizabeth City$2,529
St. Louis$2,529
Atlanta$2,526
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,523
Youngstown$1,305
Corvallis is #104 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 Corvallis0 – $2,892 / month
E-1$1,605
E-2$1,605
E-3$1,605
E-4$1,605
E-5$1,791
E-6$2,034
E-7$2,148
E-8$2,457
E-9$2,550
W-1$2,058
W-2$2,454
W-3$2,562
W-4$2,721
W-5$2,781
O-1E$2,385
O-2E$2,529
O-3E$2,706
O-1$1,884
O-2$2,307
O-3$2,592
O-4$2,763
O-5$2,826
O-6$2,850
O-7$2,892
Promoting to O-3E here adds $177 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 Corvallis to San Francisco at O-2E is worth $2,739 a month — about 15 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $177 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 13% 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. $2,529 a month of BAH takes more than $2,529 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.