O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Miami$3,687
Hawaii County$3,630
Fort Monmouth$3,618
Ventura$3,600
West Point$3,549
Trenton$3,531
Monterey$3,519
Essex CO$3,516
Chicago$3,477
Youngstown$1,218
West Point is #25 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 West Point0 – $5,340 / month
E-1$3,258
E-2$3,258
E-3$3,258
E-4$3,258
E-5$3,468
E-6$4,119
E-7$4,215
E-8$4,317
E-9$4,521
W-1$4,140
W-2$4,257
W-3$4,383
W-4$4,572
W-5$4,806
O-1E$4,230
O-2E$4,362
O-3E$4,608
O-1$3,549
O-2$4,113
O-3$4,380
O-4$4,884
O-5$5,253
O-6$5,298
O-7$5,340
Promoting to O-2 here adds $564 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 West Point to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $1,623 a month — about 3 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $564 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 17% 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. $3,549 a month of BAH takes more than $3,549 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.