O-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
Westchester County$7,470
Greenville$2,463
County Cost Group 760$2,457
Pensacola$2,457
Indianapolis$2,451
Wright-Patterson AFB$2,448
China Lake$2,445
Huntsville$2,445
Fort Bragg$2,427
Wilkes-Barre$2,427
Youngstown$1,809
Wright-Patterson AFB is #250 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month —
$67,932 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Wright-Patterson AFB0 – $2,742 / month
E-1$1,533
E-2$1,533
E-3$1,533
E-4$1,533
E-5$1,650
E-6$1,851
E-7$1,938
E-8$2,037
E-9$2,196
W-1$1,866
W-2$1,977
W-3$2,100
W-4$2,232
W-5$2,397
O-1E$1,953
O-2E$2,082
O-3E$2,259
O-1$1,683
O-2$1,848
O-3$2,097
O-4$2,448
O-5$2,703
O-6$2,724
O-7$2,742
Promoting to O-5 here adds $255 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 Westchester County at O-4 is worth $5,022 a month — about 20 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $255 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 26% 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. $2,448 a month of BAH takes more than $2,448 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.