O-2E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,268 / month
San Francisco$5,268
Indian Head Navordsta$3,300
Fitchburg$3,255
Warrenton$3,198
Santa Fe$3,159
Willow Grove$3,135
Worcester$3,123
Newport$3,111
JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst$3,096
Hartford$3,087
Youngstown$1,305
Willow Grove is #51 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,963 a month —
$47,556 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Willow Grove0 – $3,447 / month
E-1$2,049
E-2$2,049
E-3$2,049
E-4$2,049
E-5$2,337
E-6$2,550
E-7$2,736
E-8$3,030
E-9$3,165
W-1$2,670
W-2$3,027
W-3$3,183
W-4$3,396
W-5$3,405
O-1E$2,931
O-2E$3,135
O-3E$3,393
O-1$2,523
O-2$2,871
O-3$3,228
O-4$3,399
O-5$3,408
O-6$3,411
O-7$3,447
Promoting to O-3E here adds $258 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 Willow Grove to San Francisco at O-2E is worth $2,133 a month — about 8 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $258 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 10% 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. $3,135 a month of BAH takes more than $3,135 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.