O-4 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,874 / month
Westchester County$5,874
Everett$3,366
Fort G. G. Meade$3,321
County Cost Group 880$3,306
Annapolis$3,300
Sitka$3,294
Quantico$3,222
Edwards AFB$3,189
Ann Arbor$3,180
New London$3,156
Youngstown$1,497
Sitka is #63 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,377 a month —
$52,524 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Sitka0 – $3,504 / month
E-1$1,767
E-2$1,767
E-3$1,767
E-4$1,767
E-5$2,409
E-6$2,421
E-7$2,472
E-8$2,550
E-9$2,775
W-1$2,424
W-2$2,511
W-3$2,802
W-4$3,213
W-5$3,315
O-1E$2,484
O-2E$2,715
O-3E$3,189
O-1$2,418
O-2$2,475
O-3$2,886
O-4$3,294
O-5$3,348
O-6$3,444
O-7$3,504
Promoting to O-5 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 Sitka to Westchester County at O-4 is worth $2,580 a month — about 48 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $54 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. $3,294 a month of BAH takes more than $3,294 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.