W-2 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,193 / month
San Francisco$5,193
Fort Bliss$1,878
Corpus Christi$1,875
Fort Campbell$1,875
Tallahassee$1,875
Greensboro$1,872
Little Rock$1,872
Coos Bay$1,869
Des Moines$1,860
Marquette$1,860
Youngstown$1,224
Greensboro is #222 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,969 a month —
$47,628 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Greensboro0 – $2,274 / month
E-1$1,260
E-2$1,260
E-3$1,260
E-4$1,260
E-5$1,440
E-6$1,581
E-7$1,683
E-8$1,875
E-9$1,956
W-1$1,650
W-2$1,872
W-3$1,968
W-4$2,115
W-5$2,175
O-1E$1,806
O-2E$1,938
O-3E$2,100
O-1$1,551
O-2$1,770
O-3$1,995
O-4$2,157
O-5$2,187
O-6$2,238
O-7$2,274
Promoting to W-3 here adds $96 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 Greensboro to San Francisco at W-2 is worth $3,321 a month — about 35 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $96 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 17% 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. $1,872 a month of BAH takes more than $1,872 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.