O-4 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,874 / month
Westchester County$5,874
White Sands MR$1,977
Brownsville$1,974
Goodfellow AFB$1,968
County Cost Group 740$1,965
Wilkes-Barre$1,953
Morgantown$1,950
Fort Rucker$1,941
Moody AFB$1,941
Wright-Patterson AFB$1,938
Youngstown$1,497
Wilkes-Barre is #266 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 Wilkes-Barre0 – $2,097 / month
E-1$1,272
E-2$1,272
E-3$1,272
E-4$1,272
E-5$1,488
E-6$1,614
E-7$1,674
E-8$1,776
E-9$1,806
W-1$1,668
W-2$1,773
W-3$1,815
W-4$1,893
W-5$1,971
O-1E$1,737
O-2E$1,800
O-3E$1,875
O-1$1,611
O-2$1,722
O-3$1,827
O-4$1,953
O-5$2,007
O-6$2,064
O-7$2,097
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 Wilkes-Barre to Westchester County at O-4 is worth $3,921 a month — about 73 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $54 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. $1,953 a month of BAH takes more than $1,953 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.