O-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
Westchester County$8,136
Kauai County$5,943
Essex CO$5,904
Long Island$5,874
Miami$5,814
Martha's Vineyard$5,694
Monterey$5,613
San Diego$5,541
Los Angeles$5,481
San Luis Obispo$5,475
Youngstown$1,839
Martha's Vineyard is #15 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month —
$75,564 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Martha's Vineyard0 – $5,742 / month
E-1$3,663
E-2$3,663
E-3$3,663
E-4$3,663
E-5$3,984
E-6$4,593
E-7$4,752
E-8$4,923
E-9$5,130
W-1$4,617
W-2$4,821
W-3$5,031
W-4$5,166
W-5$5,334
O-1E$4,782
O-2E$5,001
O-3E$5,193
O-1$4,062
O-2$4,587
O-3$5,025
O-4$5,385
O-5$5,646
O-6$5,694
O-7$5,742
Promoting to O-7 here adds $48 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 Martha's Vineyard to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $2,442 a month — about 51 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $48 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 14% 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. $5,694 a month of BAH takes more than $5,694 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.