W-3 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,301 / month
San Francisco$5,301
Fort Wayne$2,043
Fort Gordon$2,031
Lexington$2,022
Corpus Christi$2,019
Davis-Monthan AFB$2,019
Des Moines$2,007
Tallahassee$2,007
Columbia$2,004
Greenville$2,004
Youngstown$1,341
Davis-Monthan AFB is #209 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,960 a month —
$47,520 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Davis-Monthan AFB0 – $2,211 / month
E-1$1,272
E-2$1,272
E-3$1,272
E-4$1,272
E-5$1,428
E-6$1,587
E-7$1,701
E-8$1,953
E-9$2,007
W-1$1,632
W-2$1,950
W-3$2,019
W-4$2,118
W-5$2,151
O-1E$1,902
O-2E$1,995
O-3E$2,109
O-1$1,482
O-2$1,839
O-3$2,037
O-4$2,139
O-5$2,154
O-6$2,175
O-7$2,211
Promoting to W-4 here adds $99 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 Davis-Monthan AFB to San Francisco at W-3 is worth $3,282 a month — about 33 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $99 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 9% 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. $2,019 a month of BAH takes more than $2,019 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.