▲ RAISE+$1,050+$12,600/yr · like +$16,154 of salary
What this rate means
W-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,963 / month
Westchester County$6,963
Sumter$2,169
County Cost Group 730$2,157
Morgantown$2,157
Frankfort$2,151
Fort Benning$2,148
Terre Haute$2,145
Springfield$2,142
White Sands MR$2,142
Lafayette$2,139
Stevens Point$1,779
Fort Benning is #276 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,184 a month —
$62,208 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fort Benning0 – $2,502 / month
E-1$1,635
E-2$1,635
E-3$1,635
E-4$1,635
E-5$1,716
E-6$1,977
E-7$2,004
E-8$2,037
E-9$2,121
W-1$1,995
W-2$2,016
W-3$2,061
W-4$2,148
W-5$2,262
O-1E$2,007
O-2E$2,049
O-3E$2,166
O-1$1,755
O-2$1,974
O-3$2,058
O-4$2,295
O-5$2,469
O-6$2,487
O-7$2,502
Promoting to W-5 here adds $114 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 Fort Benning to Westchester County at W-4 is worth $4,815 a month — about 42 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $114 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 9% 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. $2,148 a month of BAH takes more than $2,148 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.