O-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
Westchester County$8,136
Patuxent River$3,327
Wilmington$3,327
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$3,318
Houston$3,312
Humboldt County$3,312
Gainesville$3,300
Patrick SFB$3,294
Elizabeth City$3,288
St. Louis$3,285
Youngstown$1,839
Humboldt County is #127 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month —
$75,564 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Humboldt County0 – $3,336 / month
E-1$1,764
E-2$1,764
E-3$1,764
E-4$1,764
E-5$1,827
E-6$2,322
E-7$2,511
E-8$2,715
E-9$2,916
W-1$2,343
W-2$2,595
W-3$2,844
W-4$2,943
W-5$3,063
O-1E$2,547
O-2E$2,808
O-3E$2,961
O-1$1,893
O-2$2,316
O-3$2,838
O-4$3,099
O-5$3,288
O-6$3,312
O-7$3,336
Promoting to O-7 here adds $24 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 Westchester County at O-6 is worth $4,824 a month — about 201 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $24 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. $3,312 a month of BAH takes more than $3,312 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.