W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Bangor$2,067
Fort Bragg$2,067
Morehead$2,064
Fayetteville$2,058
Sioux Falls$2,046
Shreveport$2,043
Marquette$2,025
Grand Forks$2,022
Columbus AFB$2,019
Youngstown$1,350
Sioux Falls is #237 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Sioux Falls0 – $2,544 / month
E-1$1,428
E-2$1,428
E-3$1,428
E-4$1,428
E-5$1,554
E-6$2,025
E-7$2,055
E-8$2,085
E-9$2,169
W-1$2,046
W-2$2,067
W-3$2,109
W-4$2,193
W-5$2,307
O-1E$2,058
O-2E$2,100
O-3E$2,211
O-1$1,617
O-2$2,022
O-3$2,106
O-4$2,340
O-5$2,511
O-6$2,529
O-7$2,544
Promoting to W-2 here adds $21 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 Sioux Falls to San Francisco at W-1 is worth $3,426 a month — about 163 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $21 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. $2,046 a month of BAH takes more than $2,046 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.