W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Oklahoma City$1,869
Sparta$1,866
Wright-Patterson AFB$1,866
Lafayette$1,860
Yuma$1,860
County Cost Group 720$1,857
Fort Polk$1,854
Goodfellow AFB$1,854
Auburn$1,851
Youngstown$1,350
Yuma is #279 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Yuma0 – $2,487 / month
E-1$1,551
E-2$1,551
E-3$1,551
E-4$1,551
E-5$1,695
E-6$1,845
E-7$1,917
E-8$1,998
E-9$2,115
W-1$1,860
W-2$1,950
W-3$2,052
W-4$2,139
W-5$2,253
O-1E$1,929
O-2E$2,034
O-3E$2,157
O-1$1,722
O-2$1,842
O-3$2,049
O-4$2,283
O-5$2,454
O-6$2,472
O-7$2,487
Promoting to W-2 here adds $90 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 Yuma to San Francisco at W-1 is worth $3,612 a month — about 40 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $90 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 23% 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. $1,860 a month of BAH takes more than $1,860 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.