E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco$5,454
Eastern Panhandle$2,253
Jacksonville$2,241
Columbus$2,238
Rock Island$2,238
Pensacola$2,235
Ogden$2,229
Provo$2,229
Cheyenne$2,217
Corpus Christi$2,217
Youngstown$1,335
Pensacola is #191 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Pensacola0 – $2,646 / month
E-1$1,794
E-2$1,794
E-3$1,794
E-4$1,794
E-5$1,863
E-6$2,235
E-7$2,256
E-8$2,265
E-9$2,304
W-1$2,253
W-2$2,262
W-3$2,274
W-4$2,325
W-5$2,427
O-1E$2,259
O-2E$2,268
O-3E$2,340
O-1$1,914
O-2$2,232
O-3$2,271
O-4$2,457
O-5$2,610
O-6$2,631
O-7$2,646
Promoting to E-7 here adds $21 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 Pensacola to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $3,219 a month — about 153 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $21 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 30% 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. $2,235 a month of BAH takes more than $2,235 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.