O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Robins AFB$1,818
Waco$1,803
County Cost Group 770$1,797
Fargo$1,785
Fort Huachuca$1,782
Grand Forks$1,770
Wilkes-Barre$1,767
Fort Benning$1,755
White Sands MR$1,737
Youngstown$1,218
Fort Huachuca is #236 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 Huachuca0 – $2,511 / month
E-1$1,569
E-2$1,569
E-3$1,569
E-4$1,569
E-5$1,719
E-6$2,193
E-7$2,217
E-8$2,226
E-9$2,250
W-1$2,214
W-2$2,223
W-3$2,235
W-4$2,265
W-5$2,343
O-1E$2,220
O-2E$2,229
O-3E$2,277
O-1$1,782
O-2$2,190
O-3$2,232
O-4$2,364
O-5$2,481
O-6$2,499
O-7$2,511
Promoting to O-2 here adds $408 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 Huachuca to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,390 a month — about 8 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $408 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 26% 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. $1,782 a month of BAH takes more than $1,782 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.