W-4 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,478 / month
Westchester County$5,478
Morgantown$1,920
Sault Ste Marie$1,917
Beaumont$1,914
County Cost Group 740$1,908
Robins AFB$1,896
Wilkes-Barre$1,893
Paducah$1,884
Brownsville$1,881
Topeka$1,878
Youngstown$1,362
Robins AFB is #267 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,116 a month —
$49,392 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Robins AFB0 – $2,217 / month
E-1$1,341
E-2$1,341
E-3$1,341
E-4$1,341
E-5$1,491
E-6$1,590
E-7$1,695
E-8$1,824
E-9$1,833
W-1$1,668
W-2$1,821
W-3$1,839
W-4$1,896
W-5$2,019
O-1E$1,797
O-2E$1,830
O-3E$1,866
O-1$1,581
O-2$1,770
O-3$1,842
O-4$1,992
O-5$2,064
O-6$2,181
O-7$2,217
Promoting to W-5 here adds $123 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 Robins AFB to Westchester County at W-4 is worth $3,582 a month — about 29 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $123 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 22% 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. $1,896 a month of BAH takes more than $1,896 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.