O-1E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,124 / month
San Francisco$5,124
Boise$1,923
Greenville$1,920
Yakima$1,920
Jackson$1,917
Humboldt County$1,911
Roanoke$1,908
Rock Island$1,905
Bloomington$1,902
Davis-Monthan AFB$1,902
Youngstown$1,188
Humboldt County is #195 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,936 a month —
$47,232 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Humboldt County0 – $2,871 / month
E-1$1,395
E-2$1,395
E-3$1,395
E-4$1,395
E-5$1,587
E-6$1,743
E-7$1,884
E-8$2,037
E-9$2,187
W-1$1,758
W-2$1,947
W-3$2,190
W-4$2,364
W-5$2,556
O-1E$1,911
O-2E$2,106
O-3E$2,316
O-1$1,698
O-2$1,887
O-3$2,193
O-4$2,520
O-5$2,634
O-6$2,823
O-7$2,871
Promoting to O-2E here adds $195 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 Humboldt County to San Francisco at O-1E is worth $3,213 a month — about 16 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $195 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 33% 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. $1,911 a month of BAH takes more than $1,911 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.