O-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
Westchester County$8,136
Stockton$4,080
Santa Fe$4,056
Fort G. G. Meade$4,047
Ketchikan$4,035
Riverside$4,035
Madison$4,026
Hampden County$4,011
Cape May$4,002
Everett$3,969
Youngstown$1,839
Riverside is #64 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month —
$75,564 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Riverside0 – $4,065 / month
E-1$3,096
E-2$3,096
E-3$3,096
E-4$3,096
E-5$3,351
E-6$3,549
E-7$3,603
E-8$3,663
E-9$3,753
W-1$3,564
W-2$3,627
W-3$3,708
W-4$3,768
W-5$3,855
O-1E$3,612
O-2E$3,693
O-3E$3,783
O-1$3,384
O-2$3,546
O-3$3,705
O-4$3,876
O-5$4,002
O-6$4,035
O-7$4,065
Promoting to O-7 here adds $30 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 Riverside to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $4,101 a month — about 137 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $30 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 10% 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. $4,035 a month of BAH takes more than $4,035 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.