O-1E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,124 / month
San Francisco$5,124
Montgomery$1,680
Johnson City$1,665
Fort Drum$1,662
Wichita Fls$1,653
Wright-Patterson AFB$1,647
Oklahoma City$1,641
Morgantown$1,638
County Cost Group 750$1,635
Tulsa$1,635
Youngstown$1,188
Wright-Patterson AFB is #253 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,936 a month —
$47,232 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Wright-Patterson AFB0 – $2,112 / month
E-1$1,224
E-2$1,224
E-3$1,224
E-4$1,224
E-5$1,341
E-6$1,422
E-7$1,536
E-8$1,695
E-9$1,746
W-1$1,506
W-2$1,692
W-3$1,755
W-4$1,863
W-5$1,959
O-1E$1,647
O-2E$1,734
O-3E$1,839
O-1$1,413
O-2$1,614
O-3$1,773
O-4$1,938
O-5$2,028
O-6$2,079
O-7$2,112
Promoting to O-2E here adds $87 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 Wright-Patterson AFB to San Francisco at O-1E is worth $3,477 a month — about 40 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $87 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 19% 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. $1,647 a month of BAH takes more than $1,647 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.