E-6 with dependents, every station0 – $4,404 / month
San Diego$4,404
Camp Pendleton$4,398
Honolulu County$3,912
JB Lewis-McChord$2,919
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,892
Norfolk$2,559
Fort Stewart$2,439
Fort Carson$2,433
Fort Bliss$2,148
Fort Campbell$2,100
San Antonio (JBSA)$2,094
Fort Bragg$2,049
Fort Benning$1,977
Camp Lejeune$1,944
Fort Hood$1,920
Fort Drum$1,893
Fort Riley$1,782
Fort Hood is #15 of 17. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $2,622 a month —
$31,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fort Hood0 – $2,787 / month
E-1$1,662
E-2$1,662
E-3$1,662
E-4$1,662
E-5$1,695
E-6$1,920
E-7$2,070
E-8$2,238
E-9$2,409
W-1$1,938
W-2$2,139
W-3$2,346
W-4$2,433
W-5$2,544
O-1E$2,100
O-2E$2,313
O-3E$2,451
O-1$1,731
O-2$1,917
O-3$2,340
O-4$2,577
O-5$2,748
O-6$2,769
O-7$2,787
Promoting to E-7 here adds $150 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 Hood to San Diego at E-6 is worth $2,484 a month — about 17 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $150 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 18% 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. $1,920 a month of BAH takes more than $1,920 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.