W-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,654 / month
Westchester County$6,654
Knoxville$2,907
Allentown$2,883
Rome$2,883
Coastal Maine$2,871
Corvallis$2,868
Abilene$2,862
Beaufort$2,859
Dallas$2,850
Dahlgren$2,847
Anniston$1,689
Corvallis is #116 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,965 a month —
$59,580 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Corvallis0 – $3,828 / month
E-1$2,139
E-2$2,139
E-3$2,139
E-4$2,139
E-5$2,388
E-6$2,715
E-7$2,769
E-8$2,826
E-9$3,009
W-1$2,733
W-2$2,793
W-3$2,868
W-4$3,063
W-5$3,306
O-1E$2,775
O-2E$2,853
O-3E$3,102
O-1$2,433
O-2$2,712
O-3$2,865
O-4$3,387
O-5$3,768
O-6$3,801
O-7$3,828
Promoting to W-4 here adds $195 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 Westchester County at W-3 is worth $3,786 a month — about 19 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $195 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 12% 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. $2,868 a month of BAH takes more than $2,868 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.