▲ RAISE+$1,272+$15,264/yr · like +$19,569 of salary
What this rate means
O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Altus AFB$1,299
Fort Polk$1,296
Fort Sill$1,272
Monroe$1,251
Vance AFB$1,245
Anniston$1,230
Youngstown$1,218
Vance AFB is #336 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 Vance AFB0 – $2,445 / month
E-1$1,155
E-2$1,155
E-3$1,155
E-4$1,155
E-5$1,200
E-6$1,512
E-7$1,623
E-8$1,743
E-9$1,914
W-1$1,530
W-2$1,671
W-3$1,821
W-4$1,950
W-5$2,112
O-1E$1,641
O-2E$1,797
O-3E$1,977
O-1$1,245
O-2$1,509
O-3$1,818
O-4$2,163
O-5$2,415
O-6$2,430
O-7$2,445
Promoting to O-2 here adds $264 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 Vance AFB to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,927 a month — about 15 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $264 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 12% 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. $1,245 a month of BAH takes more than $1,245 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.