O-1E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,124 / month
San Francisco$5,124
Austin$2,316
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,310
Fort Stewart$2,307
Phoenix$2,286
Volusia County$2,283
Cincinnati$2,280
Pittsburgh$2,280
Dover AFB$2,274
Hampton$2,271
Youngstown$1,188
Volusia County is #126 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,936 a month —
$47,232 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Volusia County0 – $2,655 / month
E-1$1,647
E-2$1,647
E-3$1,647
E-4$1,647
E-5$1,833
E-6$1,956
E-7$2,118
E-8$2,334
E-9$2,385
W-1$2,064
W-2$2,331
W-3$2,394
W-4$2,499
W-5$2,553
O-1E$2,283
O-2E$2,373
O-3E$2,484
O-1$1,938
O-2$2,232
O-3$2,415
O-4$2,538
O-5$2,565
O-6$2,613
O-7$2,655
Promoting to O-2E here adds $90 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 Volusia County to San Francisco at O-1E is worth $2,841 a month — about 32 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $90 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. $2,283 a month of BAH takes more than $2,283 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.