O-4 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,874 / month
Westchester County$5,874
Cheyenne$2,298
Des Moines$2,289
Jackson$2,289
County Cost Group 790$2,286
Jacksonville$2,277
Nellis AFB$2,265
Ogden$2,265
Bismarck$2,259
Tallahassee$2,259
Youngstown$1,497
Jacksonville is #198 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,377 a month —
$52,524 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Jacksonville0 – $2,382 / month
E-1$1,623
E-2$1,623
E-3$1,623
E-4$1,623
E-5$1,803
E-6$1,920
E-7$2,049
E-8$2,199
E-9$2,205
W-1$2,010
W-2$2,196
W-3$2,208
W-4$2,241
W-5$2,292
O-1E$2,178
O-2E$2,202
O-3E$2,229
O-1$1,908
O-2$2,139
O-3$2,211
O-4$2,277
O-5$2,301
O-6$2,343
O-7$2,382
Promoting to O-5 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 Jacksonville to Westchester County at O-4 is worth $3,597 a month — about 150 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $24 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 13% 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. $2,277 a month of BAH takes more than $2,277 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.