O-2E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,268 / month
San Francisco$5,268
Oklahoma City$1,731
Akron$1,728
Topeka$1,728
County Cost Group 740$1,719
Fallon NAS$1,716
Holloman AFB$1,710
Montgomery$1,710
Seymour Johnson AFB$1,707
Sault Ste Marie$1,701
Youngstown$1,305
Fallon NAS is #267 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,963 a month —
$47,556 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fallon NAS0 – $2,343 / month
E-1$1,287
E-2$1,287
E-3$1,287
E-4$1,287
E-5$1,455
E-6$1,557
E-7$1,587
E-8$1,644
E-9$1,779
W-1$1,584
W-2$1,638
W-3$1,782
W-4$1,827
W-5$2,028
O-1E$1,599
O-2E$1,716
O-3E$1,806
O-1$1,554
O-2$1,596
O-3$1,785
O-4$1,992
O-5$2,109
O-6$2,304
O-7$2,343
Promoting to O-3E here adds $90 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 Fallon NAS to San Francisco at O-2E is worth $3,552 a month — about 39 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $90 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 33% 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. $1,716 a month of BAH takes more than $1,716 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.