O-4 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,874 / month
Westchester County$5,874
Florida Keys$4,374
Staten Island$4,341
Los Angeles$4,314
Monterey$4,245
West Point$4,215
Oakland$4,203
Fort Monmouth$4,173
Cape Cod-Plymouth$4,155
Perth Amboy$4,128
Youngstown$1,497
West Point is #19 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 West Point0 – $4,440 / month
E-1$2,514
E-2$2,514
E-3$2,514
E-4$2,514
E-5$2,859
E-6$3,090
E-7$3,264
E-8$3,600
E-9$3,795
W-1$3,195
W-2$3,597
W-3$3,819
W-4$4,137
W-5$4,236
O-1E$3,465
O-2E$3,753
O-3E$4,113
O-1$3,045
O-2$3,402
O-3$3,882
O-4$4,215
O-5$4,269
O-6$4,362
O-7$4,440
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 West Point to Westchester County at O-4 is worth $1,659 a month — about 31 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $54 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 16% 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. $4,215 a month of BAH takes more than $4,215 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.