O-3 with dependents, every station0 – $4,659 / month
Camp Pendleton$4,659
San Diego$4,518
Honolulu County$4,428
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$3,360
JB Lewis-McChord$3,123
Norfolk$2,694
Fort Stewart$2,598
Fort Carson$2,595
Fort Campbell$2,496
Fort Drum$2,469
Fort Hood$2,340
Fort Bliss$2,202
Fort Bragg$2,175
San Antonio (JBSA)$2,127
Camp Lejeune$2,085
Fort Benning$2,058
Fort Riley$1,953
Fort Bragg is #13 of 17. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $2,706 a month —
$32,472 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fort Bragg0 – $2,646 / month
E-1$1,722
E-2$1,722
E-3$1,722
E-4$1,722
E-5$1,806
E-6$2,049
E-7$2,094
E-8$2,142
E-9$2,244
W-1$2,067
W-2$2,112
W-3$2,178
W-4$2,271
W-5$2,391
O-1E$2,097
O-2E$2,166
O-3E$2,289
O-1$1,842
O-2$2,046
O-3$2,175
O-4$2,427
O-5$2,610
O-6$2,628
O-7$2,646
Promoting to O-4 here adds $252 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 Bragg to Camp Pendleton at O-3 is worth $2,484 a month — about 10 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $252 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 11% 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. $2,175 a month of BAH takes more than $2,175 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.