W-2 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,193 / month
San Francisco$5,193
Norfolk$2,460
Portland$2,457
Atlanta$2,454
Corvallis$2,454
Eglin AFB$2,454
Reno$2,451
Charlottesville$2,442
Bremerton$2,439
Patuxent River$2,439
Youngstown$1,224
Eglin AFB is #109 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 Eglin AFB0 – $3,453 / month
E-1$2,007
E-2$2,007
E-3$2,007
E-4$2,007
E-5$2,157
E-6$2,250
E-7$2,340
E-8$2,457
E-9$2,586
W-1$2,322
W-2$2,454
W-3$2,589
W-4$2,604
W-5$2,922
O-1E$2,430
O-2E$2,514
O-3E$2,601
O-1$2,244
O-2$2,406
O-3$2,592
O-4$2,865
O-5$3,066
O-6$3,393
O-7$3,453
Promoting to W-3 here adds $135 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 Eglin AFB to San Francisco at W-2 is worth $2,739 a month — about 20 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $135 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 22% 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. $2,454 a month of BAH takes more than $2,454 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.