O-1E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,931 / month
Westchester County$5,931
San Francisco$5,493
New York City$5,271
Nantucket$5,262
Maui County$5,127
Northern New Jersey$5,076
Youngstown$1,521
San Francisco is #2 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,410 a month —
$52,920 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at San Francisco0 – $7,215 / month
E-1$4,764
E-2$4,764
E-3$4,764
E-4$4,764
E-5$5,127
E-6$5,454
E-7$5,490
E-8$5,529
E-9$5,799
W-1$5,472
W-2$5,505
W-3$5,559
W-4$5,892
W-5$6,297
O-1E$5,493
O-2E$5,547
O-3E$5,955
O-1$5,172
O-2$5,451
O-3$5,556
O-4$6,444
O-5$7,089
O-6$7,155
O-7$7,215
Promoting to O-2E here adds $54 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 San Francisco to Westchester County at O-1E is worth $438 a month — about 8 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $54 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 7% 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. $5,493 a month of BAH takes more than $5,493 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.