E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco$5,454
Mountain Home AFB$2,187
Kansas City$2,175
Toledo$2,166
Jackson$2,163
Fort Gordon$2,157
Kings Bay$2,157
El Centro$2,151
Lexington$2,151
Fort Bliss$2,148
Youngstown$1,335
Fort Gordon is #209 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fort Gordon0 – $2,826 / month
E-1$1,809
E-2$1,809
E-3$1,809
E-4$1,809
E-5$1,890
E-6$2,157
E-7$2,190
E-8$2,226
E-9$2,334
W-1$2,175
W-2$2,205
W-3$2,253
W-4$2,367
W-5$2,514
O-1E$2,193
O-2E$2,241
O-3E$2,388
O-1$1,929
O-2$2,154
O-3$2,250
O-4$2,559
O-5$2,787
O-6$2,808
O-7$2,826
Promoting to E-7 here adds $33 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 Gordon to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $3,297 a month — about 100 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $33 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 25% 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. $2,157 a month of BAH takes more than $2,157 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.