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California

Coast Guard Station San Fransisco BAH

Coast Guard Station San Fransisco is paid at SAN FRANCISCO, CA, housing area CA019. An E-5 with dependents draws $5,127 a month there, tax free.

Why the names don't matchThe DoD sets one rate per housing area, not per base, and names the area after the civilian housing market it measures. Coast Guard Station San Fransisco sits inside SAN FRANCISCO, CA, so that's the rate it pays.
Housing area: CA019Rank at E-5: 1 of 338vs national median: +148%

Every pay grade at Coast Guard Station San Fransisco

GradeWith dependentsWithoutA year, with deps
E-1$4,764$3,573$57,168
E-2$4,764$3,573$57,168
E-3$4,764$3,573$57,168
E-4$4,764$3,573$57,168
E-5$5,127$4,086$61,524
E-6$5,454$4,443$65,448
E-7$5,490$4,782$65,880
E-8$5,529$5,196$66,348
E-9$5,799$5,286$69,588
W-1$5,472$4,644$65,664
W-2$5,505$5,193$66,060
W-3$5,559$5,301$66,708
W-4$5,892$5,454$70,704
W-5$6,297$5,496$75,564
O-1E$5,493$5,124$65,916
O-2E$5,547$5,268$66,564
O-3E$5,955$5,445$71,460
O-1$5,172$4,401$62,064
O-2$5,451$5,007$65,412
O-3$5,556$5,331$66,672
O-4$6,444$5,481$77,328
O-5$7,089$5,499$85,068
O-6$7,155$5,532$85,860
O-7$7,215$5,634$86,580
O-8$7,215$5,634$86,580
O-9$7,215$5,634$86,580
O-10$7,215$5,634$86,580

These are the SAN FRANCISCO, CA rates, rate year 2026. Every installation in the area draws the same figure. BAH-ASCII-2026.zip

Paid at the same rate

A move between any of these changes nothing about your housing allowance, because they all draw the same rate.

Moving here, or away

The comparison on the front page puts this rate against whichever station you're at now and shows what the move does to the money.