O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Lafayette$1,623
Goodfellow AFB$1,617
Sioux Falls$1,617
Gulfport$1,614
Peoria$1,614
Minot AFB$1,605
County Cost Group 730$1,602
Fort Rucker$1,602
Scott AFB$1,602
Youngstown$1,218
Peoria is #270 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 Peoria0 – $2,493 / month
E-1$1,506
E-2$1,506
E-3$1,506
E-4$1,506
E-5$1,572
E-6$1,860
E-7$1,926
E-8$1,995
E-9$2,109
W-1$1,878
W-2$1,953
W-3$2,043
W-4$2,133
W-5$2,250
O-1E$1,935
O-2E$2,028
O-3E$2,151
O-1$1,614
O-2$1,857
O-3$2,040
O-4$2,283
O-5$2,463
O-6$2,481
O-7$2,493
Promoting to O-2 here adds $243 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 Peoria to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,558 a month — about 15 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $243 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 13% 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. $1,614 a month of BAH takes more than $1,614 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.