W-2 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,193 / month
San Francisco$5,193
Patrick SFB$2,580
County Cost Group 860$2,559
Dallas$2,538
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,535
Elizabeth City$2,523
Port Angeles$2,523
Oxford$2,520
Fresno$2,517
Kodiak Island$2,511
Youngstown$1,224
Elizabeth City is #91 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 Elizabeth City0 – $2,688 / month
E-1$1,770
E-2$1,770
E-3$1,770
E-4$1,770
E-5$1,980
E-6$2,118
E-7$2,310
E-8$2,526
E-9$2,532
W-1$2,241
W-2$2,523
W-3$2,535
W-4$2,559
W-5$2,604
O-1E$2,505
O-2E$2,529
O-3E$2,547
O-1$2,097
O-2$2,442
O-3$2,538
O-4$2,589
O-5$2,607
O-6$2,643
O-7$2,688
Promoting to W-3 here adds $12 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 Elizabeth City to San Francisco at W-2 is worth $2,670 a month — about 223 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $12 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 4% 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. $2,523 a month of BAH takes more than $2,523 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.