O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
Camp Lejeune$1,941
Tulsa$1,941
Little Rock$1,938
White Sands MR$1,926
Whiteman AFB$1,926
Akron$1,923
Fort Hood$1,917
Sault Ste Marie$1,917
Beaumont$1,914
Youngstown$1,332
Whiteman AFB is #257 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Whiteman AFB0 – $2,751 / month
E-1$1,449
E-2$1,449
E-3$1,449
E-4$1,449
E-5$1,611
E-6$1,929
E-7$2,043
E-8$2,166
E-9$2,322
W-1$1,950
W-2$2,094
W-3$2,247
W-4$2,349
W-5$2,478
O-1E$2,064
O-2E$2,223
O-3E$2,370
O-1$1,656
O-2$1,926
O-3$2,244
O-4$2,517
O-5$2,715
O-6$2,736
O-7$2,751
Promoting to O-3 here adds $318 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 Whiteman AFB to San Francisco at O-2 is worth $3,525 a month — about 11 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $318 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 23% 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. $1,926 a month of BAH takes more than $1,926 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.