E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Maui County$4,329
Hanscom AFB$4,188
Martha's Vineyard$3,984
San Diego$3,975
Florida Keys$3,969
Camp Pendleton$3,963
Cape Cod-Plymouth$3,924
Los Angeles$3,882
Kauai County$3,798
Anniston$1,185
Florida Keys is #13 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month —
$47,304 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Florida Keys0 – $6,321 / month
E-1$3,813
E-2$3,813
E-3$3,813
E-4$3,813
E-5$3,969
E-6$4,056
E-7$4,350
E-8$4,677
E-9$5,097
W-1$4,074
W-2$4,485
W-3$4,884
W-4$5,178
W-5$5,529
O-1E$4,413
O-2E$4,827
O-3E$5,232
O-1$3,987
O-2$4,053
O-3$4,872
O-4$5,655
O-5$6,213
O-6$6,267
O-7$6,321
Promoting to E-6 here adds $87 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 Florida Keys to San Francisco at E-5 is worth $1,158 a month — about 13 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $87 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. $3,969 a month of BAH takes more than $3,969 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.