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 Riley is #17 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 Riley0 – $1,965 / month
E-1$1,050
E-2$1,050
E-3$1,050
E-4$1,050
E-5$1,158
E-6$1,338
E-7$1,383
E-8$1,434
E-9$1,548
W-1$1,353
W-2$1,410
W-3$1,566
W-4$1,794
W-5$1,860
O-1E$1,392
O-2E$1,518
O-3E$1,776
O-1$1,227
O-2$1,386
O-3$1,611
O-4$1,842
O-5$1,875
O-6$1,935
O-7$1,965
Promoting to W-4 here adds $228 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 Riley to San Diego at W-3 is worth $2,640 a month — about 12 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $228 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. $1,566 a month of BAH takes more than $1,566 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.