O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
County Cost Group 700$1,542
Saginaw$1,542
Terre Haute$1,542
County Cost Group 690$1,527
Lubbock$1,524
County Cost Group 680$1,515
Fort Leonard Wood$1,515
County Cost Group 670$1,506
Laughlin AFB$1,506
Youngstown$1,218
Lubbock is #293 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Lubbock0 – $2,637 / month
E-1$1,416
E-2$1,416
E-3$1,416
E-4$1,416
E-5$1,476
E-6$1,812
E-7$1,875
E-8$1,941
E-9$2,082
W-1$1,830
W-2$1,902
W-3$1,986
W-4$2,121
W-5$2,289
O-1E$1,884
O-2E$1,971
O-3E$2,145
O-1$1,524
O-2$1,809
O-3$1,983
O-4$2,343
O-5$2,604
O-6$2,622
O-7$2,637
Promoting to O-2 here adds $285 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 Lubbock to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,648 a month — about 13 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $285 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. $1,524 a month of BAH takes more than $1,524 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.