W-4 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,478 / month
Westchester County$5,478
Greenville$2,082
County Cost Group 770$2,079
Mobile$2,076
Morehead$2,070
Fayetteville$2,061
Fort Bragg$2,052
Shreveport$2,040
Marquette$2,034
Sioux Falls$2,028
Youngstown$1,362
Fayetteville is #235 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,116 a month —
$49,392 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fayetteville0 – $2,376 / month
E-1$1,263
E-2$1,263
E-3$1,263
E-4$1,263
E-5$1,437
E-6$1,545
E-7$1,662
E-8$1,839
E-9$1,908
W-1$1,632
W-2$1,836
W-3$1,920
W-4$2,061
W-5$2,181
O-1E$1,779
O-2E$1,893
O-3E$2,031
O-1$1,536
O-2$1,746
O-3$1,944
O-4$2,157
O-5$2,223
O-6$2,340
O-7$2,376
Promoting to W-5 here adds $120 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 Fayetteville to Westchester County at W-4 is worth $3,417 a month — about 28 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $120 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 20% 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. $2,061 a month of BAH takes more than $2,061 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.