O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Shreveport$1,875
Little Rock$1,869
County Cost Group 780$1,860
Fort Leavenworth$1,860
Tallahassee$1,860
Fort Bliss$1,857
Fort Campbell$1,857
State College$1,854
Greensboro$1,851
Youngstown$1,218
Tallahassee is #217 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Tallahassee0 – $3,144 / month
E-1$1,779
E-2$1,779
E-3$1,779
E-4$1,779
E-5$1,824
E-6$2,061
E-7$2,250
E-8$2,454
E-9$2,670
W-1$2,082
W-2$2,334
W-3$2,586
W-4$2,700
W-5$2,838
O-1E$2,286
O-2E$2,550
O-3E$2,721
O-1$1,860
O-2$2,058
O-3$2,580
O-4$2,883
O-5$3,099
O-6$3,123
O-7$3,144
Promoting to O-2 here adds $198 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 Tallahassee to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,312 a month — about 17 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $198 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. $1,860 a month of BAH takes more than $1,860 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.