E-3 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $4,833 / month
New York City$4,833
Milwaukee$1,776
Elizabeth City$1,770
Sitka$1,767
County Cost Group 850$1,764
Fort Collins$1,764
Charleston$1,755
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$1,755
Atlanta$1,752
Hampden County$1,752
Fort Chaffee$879
Fort Collins is #104 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fort Collins0 – $2,835 / month
E-1$1,764
E-2$1,764
E-3$1,764
E-4$1,764
E-5$1,812
E-6$1,896
E-7$2,067
E-8$2,325
E-9$2,397
W-1$1,998
W-2$2,322
W-3$2,409
W-4$2,550
W-5$2,655
O-1E$2,265
O-2E$2,379
O-3E$2,523
O-1$1,851
O-2$2,202
O-3$2,433
O-4$2,631
O-5$2,688
O-6$2,787
O-7$2,835
Promoting to E-4 here adds $0 a
month. The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
01
Dependency status is worth 17% 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. $1,764 a month of BAH takes more than $1,764 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
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“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.