O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Elizabeth City$2,523
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,517
Dallas$2,517
Oxford$2,496
Port Angeles$2,493
Fresno$2,490
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,475
St. Louis$2,472
Beaufort$2,457
Youngstown$1,218
Port Angeles is #96 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 Port Angeles0 – $3,489 / month
E-1$2,145
E-2$2,145
E-3$2,145
E-4$2,145
E-5$2,436
E-6$2,859
E-7$2,940
E-8$3,027
E-9$3,138
W-1$2,880
W-2$2,976
W-3$3,084
W-4$3,159
W-5$3,258
O-1E$2,955
O-2E$3,066
O-3E$3,174
O-1$2,493
O-2$2,856
O-3$3,081
O-4$3,285
O-5$3,435
O-6$3,462
O-7$3,489
Promoting to O-2 here adds $363 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 Port Angeles to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $2,679 a month — about 7 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $363 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. $2,493 a month of BAH takes more than $2,493 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.