O-3 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,331 / month
San Francisco$5,331
Wilkes-Barre$1,827
Minot AFB$1,824
Champaign$1,818
Morgantown$1,812
Whiteman AFB$1,812
Camp Lejeune$1,809
Akron$1,797
Seymour Johnson AFB$1,794
Fallon NAS$1,785
Youngstown$1,344
Whiteman AFB is #259 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,987 a month —
$47,844 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Whiteman AFB0 – $2,262 / month
E-1$1,110
E-2$1,110
E-3$1,110
E-4$1,110
E-5$1,215
E-6$1,446
E-7$1,533
E-8$1,680
E-9$1,767
W-1$1,464
W-2$1,677
W-3$1,782
W-4$1,953
W-5$2,070
O-1E$1,608
O-2E$1,749
O-3E$1,923
O-1$1,281
O-2$1,560
O-3$1,812
O-4$2,046
O-5$2,112
O-6$2,226
O-7$2,262
Promoting to O-4 here adds $234 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-3 is worth $3,519 a month — about 15 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $234 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 24% 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. $1,812 a month of BAH takes more than $1,812 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.