How does pay work for two people who are married in the military?

Ok do they both get marriage pay or just one of them or what? Seems like they would pretty much be rich if they both get marriage pay. What if they are different branches? What if they are the same branch? Can they be stationed together if they are in different branches?How does pay work for two people who are married in the military?
no such thing as Marriage pay.








If there are no children then each will qualify for BAH at the single rate and be eligible to live in MFH. ( the senior will forfeit their BAH to Housing and the Junior can keep theirs).





Once there are kids one will get BAH at the with dependent rate( usually the Senior but not always) and the other keeps BAH/Single.





spousal co location is NEVER a guarantee even in the same branch. they try. the do NOT promise. 50 miles is considered co located.How does pay work for two people who are married in the military?
If they live on base, they live in base housing and neither one of them get a housing allowance. That is giving up a lot of money so most married dual service members live off base.





If they live off base, they each get a housing allowance at the ';without dependent'; rate. Neither can claim the other as a ';dependent'; as they are both service members. If they have kids, one of them will get a housing allowance at the ';with Dependent'; rate and the other will not.





The odds of being stationed together are MUCH better if they are both in the same branch of the service. There are very few locations where you have a Navy base near an Army base, etc. When it comes to Air Force a lot of those are out in the boonies and not near any other branch's bases.





Also odds of being stationed together if they have totally different jobs. IE: If one is a pilot and the other is a nurse. If they both have the same job sooner or later one or the other will be senior and that causes chain of command problems. The typical service solution is to station them apart.
There is no such thing as marriage pay in the military. However, if you have a dependent (either a spouse or a child), your housing allowance is slightly higher than someone with no dependents. If you are both active, one would get the housing allowance with dependents, and I believe the other gets the without dependents rate.





It is POSSIBLE to be stationed near each other if you are in different branches, but it is extremely difficult, since the needs of the service always come first. Even if you are in the same branch, it can be very difficult to stay together.
One of them gets BAH at the dependents rate and the other gets BAH at the single rate. This is the same regardless of their branch. However, if they are in different branches then there aren't too many bases available for them to be close together. If they were Army/Air Force then Fort Bragg would be a good place since Pope Air Force Base is there but most other places would have them apart.
There is no ';marriage pay';, you will get Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH). One member, usually the senior one, will get the full rate and the other will get the partial rate. The rate is dependant upon the zip code of where you are stationed.
Kevin is right.