January 1 marks another year of the housing
allowance called Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH). BAH is based on
geographic duty location, pay grade, and dependency status. The intent
of BAH is to provide uniformed service members with permanent duty within
the 50 United States accurate and equitable housing compensation based on
housing costs in local civilian housing markets, and is payable when
government quarters are not provided. A uniformed service member stationed
overseas, including U.S. protectorates, who is not furnished government
housing, is eligible for Overseas
Housing Allowance (OHA).
These queries contain up to 2008.
Another excellent source for 2008 military pay, army pay scales, base
pay, housing allowances like the 2008 BAH rates,
special duty pay, hazardous duty
pay, combat pay, overseas housing allowances, cost of living allowances (COLA),
and just about any other pay related link you could ever want can be found at
About.com.
They can also give you
info on submarine pay, flight pay, allotments, pay and
finance regulations, and more.
