O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
Baltimore$2,901
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,889
Madison$2,886
Ketchikan$2,883
Kodiak Island$2,880
Patrick SFB$2,880
Ballston Spa$2,859
Port Angeles$2,856
Hampden County$2,847
Youngstown$1,332
Kodiak Island is #85 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Kodiak Island0 – $3,891 / month
E-1$2,436
E-2$2,436
E-3$2,436
E-4$2,436
E-5$2,865
E-6$2,883
E-7$2,970
E-8$3,096
E-9$3,282
W-1$2,886
W-2$3,021
W-3$3,177
W-4$3,321
W-5$3,498
O-1E$2,991
O-2E$3,153
O-3E$3,348
O-1$2,877
O-2$2,880
O-3$3,174
O-4$3,555
O-5$3,831
O-6$3,861
O-7$3,891
Promoting to O-3 here adds $294 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-2 is worth $2,571 a month — about 9 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $294 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 23% 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. $2,880 a month of BAH takes more than $2,880 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.