W-4 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,478 / month
Westchester County$5,478
Santa Clara County$4,992
Maui County$4,839
Boston$4,833
Long Island$4,791
Martha's Vineyard$4,629
Hanscom AFB$4,497
Camp Pendleton$4,416
San Diego$4,410
Kauai County$4,296
Youngstown$1,362
Martha's Vineyard is #10 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,116 a month —
$49,392 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Martha's Vineyard0 – $5,103 / month
E-1$2,748
E-2$2,748
E-3$2,748
E-4$2,748
E-5$3,096
E-6$3,444
E-7$3,675
E-8$4,110
E-9$4,290
W-1$3,555
W-2$4,107
W-3$4,311
W-4$4,629
W-5$4,791
O-1E$3,981
O-2E$4,251
O-3E$4,587
O-1$3,336
O-2$3,879
O-3$4,371
O-4$4,758
O-5$4,854
O-6$5,010
O-7$5,103
Promoting to W-5 here adds $162 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 W-4 is worth $849 a month — about 5 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $162 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 12% 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. $4,629 a month of BAH takes more than $4,629 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.