O-6 with dependents, every station0 – $5,541 / month
San Diego$5,541
Camp Pendleton$5,439
Honolulu County$5,001
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$4,131
JB Lewis-McChord$3,501
Norfolk$3,342
Fort Stewart$3,153
Fort Campbell$3,030
Fort Carson$2,934
Fort Drum$2,805
Fort Hood$2,769
Fort Bragg$2,628
Camp Lejeune$2,571
Fort Benning$2,487
Fort Bliss$2,484
San Antonio (JBSA)$2,475
Fort Riley$2,340
Fort Bliss is #15 of 17. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,201 a month —
$38,412 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fort Bliss0 – $2,496 / month
E-1$1,665
E-2$1,665
E-3$1,665
E-4$1,665
E-5$1,809
E-6$2,148
E-7$2,172
E-8$2,187
E-9$2,241
W-1$2,169
W-2$2,178
W-3$2,205
W-4$2,256
W-5$2,334
O-1E$2,175
O-2E$2,196
O-3E$2,268
O-1$1,857
O-2$2,145
O-3$2,202
O-4$2,352
O-5$2,466
O-6$2,484
O-7$2,496
Promoting to O-7 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 Fort Bliss to San Diego at O-6 is worth $3,057 a month — about 255 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $12 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 14% 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. $2,484 a month of BAH takes more than $2,484 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.