E-8 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,196 / month
San Francisco$5,196
County Cost Group 810$2,133
Duluth$2,124
Syracuse$2,121
Gainesville$2,109
Eastern Panhandle$2,103
Nellis AFB$2,103
Provo$2,097
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,097
Barstow$2,091
Youngstown$1,248
Eastern Panhandle is #174 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,948 a month —
$47,376 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Eastern Panhandle0 – $2,499 / month
E-1$1,587
E-2$1,587
E-3$1,587
E-4$1,587
E-5$1,677
E-6$1,752
E-7$1,902
E-8$2,103
E-9$2,151
W-1$1,854
W-2$2,100
W-3$2,160
W-4$2,265
W-5$2,352
O-1E$2,055
O-2E$2,139
O-3E$2,244
O-1$1,737
O-2$2,010
O-3$2,178
O-4$2,331
O-5$2,376
O-6$2,457
O-7$2,499
Promoting to E-9 here adds $48 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 Eastern Panhandle to San Francisco at E-8 is worth $3,093 a month — about 64 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $48 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 15% 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. $2,103 a month of BAH takes more than $2,103 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.