O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Santa Clara County$4,704
Westchester County$4,587
Long Island$4,473
Nantucket$4,440
Maui County$4,386
Hanscom AFB$4,230
Martha's Vineyard$4,062
San Diego$4,032
Camp Pendleton$4,023
Youngstown$1,218
Maui County is #9 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 Maui County0 – $6,489 / month
E-1$3,819
E-2$3,819
E-3$3,819
E-4$3,819
E-5$4,329
E-6$4,770
E-7$5,067
E-8$5,382
E-9$5,712
W-1$4,797
W-2$5,196
W-3$5,586
W-4$5,760
W-5$5,973
O-1E$5,127
O-2E$5,529
O-3E$5,793
O-1$4,386
O-2$4,767
O-3$5,571
O-4$6,045
O-5$6,378
O-6$6,435
O-7$6,489
Promoting to O-2 here adds $381 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 Maui County to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $786 a month — about 2 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $381 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 33% 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. $4,386 a month of BAH takes more than $4,386 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.