O-3 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,331 / month
San Francisco$5,331
Ballston Spa$2,775
Fort Pierce$2,772
Ketchikan$2,772
Patrick SFB$2,742
Port Angeles$2,706
County Cost Group 860$2,703
Kodiak Island$2,694
Minneapolis$2,688
Fresno$2,685
Youngstown$1,344
Port Angeles is #88 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,987 a month —
$47,844 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Port Angeles0 – $3,114 / month
E-1$1,671
E-2$1,671
E-3$1,671
E-4$1,671
E-5$1,827
E-6$2,145
E-7$2,205
E-8$2,526
E-9$2,646
W-1$2,160
W-2$2,523
W-3$2,664
W-4$2,874
W-5$2,958
O-1E$2,433
O-2E$2,619
O-3E$2,853
O-1$1,869
O-2$2,340
O-3$2,706
O-4$2,940
O-5$2,982
O-6$3,060
O-7$3,114
Promoting to O-4 here adds $234 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-3 is worth $2,625 a month — about 11 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $234 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 14% 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. $2,706 a month of BAH takes more than $2,706 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.