O-1E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,124 / month
San Francisco$5,124
St. Louis$2,433
Eglin AFB$2,430
Norfolk$2,427
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,424
Kodiak Island$2,421
Savannah$2,412
County Cost Group 850$2,406
Patuxent River$2,403
Beaufort$2,400
Youngstown$1,188
Kodiak Island is #101 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 Kodiak Island0 – $3,213 / month
E-1$1,827
E-2$1,827
E-3$1,827
E-4$1,827
E-5$2,148
E-6$2,160
E-7$2,229
E-8$2,514
E-9$2,637
W-1$2,163
W-2$2,511
W-3$2,655
W-4$2,874
W-5$2,997
O-1E$2,421
O-2E$2,610
O-3E$2,844
O-1$2,157
O-2$2,349
O-3$2,694
O-4$2,970
O-5$3,039
O-6$3,156
O-7$3,213
Promoting to O-2E here adds $189 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 Kodiak Island to San Francisco at O-1E is worth $2,703 a month — about 14 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $189 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 24% 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. $2,421 a month of BAH takes more than $2,421 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.