W-3 without dependents, every station0 – $4,206 / month
San Diego$4,206
Camp Pendleton$4,197
Honolulu County$3,795
JB Lewis-McChord$2,751
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,619
Norfolk$2,496
Fort Carson$2,394
Fort Stewart$2,376
Fort Bliss$1,992
San Antonio (JBSA)$1,986
Fort Campbell$1,968
Fort Bragg$1,935
Fort Drum$1,899
Fort Benning$1,854
Fort Hood$1,812
Camp Lejeune$1,776
Fort Riley$1,566
Fort Hood is #15 of 17. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $2,640 a month —
$31,680 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fort Hood0 – $2,361 / month
E-1$1,374
E-2$1,374
E-3$1,374
E-4$1,374
E-5$1,530
E-6$1,626
E-7$1,668
E-8$1,746
E-9$1,806
W-1$1,665
W-2$1,743
W-3$1,812
W-4$1,950
W-5$2,109
O-1E$1,692
O-2E$1,788
O-3E$1,908
O-1$1,623
O-2$1,689
O-3$1,833
O-4$2,076
O-5$2,169
O-6$2,325
O-7$2,361
Promoting to W-4 here adds $138 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 W-3 is worth $2,394 a month — about 17 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $138 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 29% 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. $1,812 a month of BAH takes more than $1,812 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.