O-2E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,268 / month
San Francisco$5,268
Huntsville$1,917
Fort Bragg$1,908
Waco$1,902
Cheyenne$1,899
Marquette$1,899
Fayetteville$1,893
County Cost Group 770$1,887
Little Rock$1,884
Lansing$1,881
Youngstown$1,305
Marquette is #232 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,963 a month —
$47,556 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Marquette0 – $2,409 / month
E-1$1,221
E-2$1,221
E-3$1,221
E-4$1,221
E-5$1,365
E-6$1,503
E-7$1,632
E-8$1,863
E-9$1,908
W-1$1,566
W-2$1,860
W-3$1,917
W-4$2,034
W-5$2,178
O-1E$1,818
O-2E$1,899
O-3E$1,998
O-1$1,428
O-2$1,758
O-3$1,935
O-4$2,148
O-5$2,232
O-6$2,370
O-7$2,409
Promoting to O-3E here adds $99 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 Marquette to San Francisco at O-2E is worth $3,369 a month — about 34 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $99 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. $1,899 a month of BAH takes more than $1,899 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.