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2010 Hardship Duty Pay

Hardship Duty Pay-Location, or HDP-L, compensates service members assigned to areas with extraordinarily arduous quality-of-life conditions. Below are the monthly rates in effect as of Jan. 1 for all locations that qualify for the pay. If no specific cities are listed within a country, all locations in that country qualify for the pay.

Regions with single rates

Area — Monthly rate in dollars

Afghanistan — $100

Alaska       

"Attu, St. Paul, Port Clarence, Unalaska, Shoal Cove and Tok; Eareckson Air Station; Annette Island; Clear; Fort Greely, Cordova and all areas above 66?33' N latitude" — 150

Albania — 150

Algeria — 100

American Samoa — 50

Angola — 150

Antarctic Region

(below 60?S latitude) — 150

Antigua AS — 50

Arctic Region       

(above 66?33'N latitude) — 150

Armenia — 150

Ascension AAF — 150

Australia       

Alice Springs and Learmonth Observatory — 50

Azerbaijan — 100

Azores (Portugal) — 50

Bahamas       

Andros Island — 50

Bangladesh — 150

Belarus — 150

Belize       

Belize City — 100

Other        — 150

Benin — 150

Bolivia       

Cochabamba — 50

Other — 150

Bosnia-Herzegovina — 100

Botswana       

Selabi Phikwe — 100

Brazil       

"Sao Paulo; Fortaleza, Ceara; Recife, Pernambuco; and the states of Amazonas, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Para, Piaui, Rondonia, Roriame, Rio de Janeiro and Brazilia" — 50

Brunei — 100

Bulgaria — 150

Burkina — 150

Burma (Myanmar) — 150

Burundi — 100

Cambodia — 150

Cameroon — 150

Canada       

Northwest Territory — 150

Cape Verde — 150

Central African Republic — 150

Chad — 100

Chagos Archipelago       

Diego Garcia — 150

Other        — 50

China       

Beijing — 100

"Chengdu, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Other" — 150

"Shanghai, Hong Kong" — 50

Colombia — 50

Congo       

Brazzaville — 150

Other        — 100

Cook Islands       

Rarotonga — 50

Other — 100

Costa Rica       

San Jose — 0

Croatia — 50

Cuba       

"Havana, JTF-Guantanamo Bay" — 150

Other Guantanamo Bay — 100

Cyprus — 50

Democratic Republic of Congo — 100

Djibouti — 100

Dominican Republic — 150

East Timor — 100

Ecuador — 100

Egypt       

Cairo West AB — 100

"Ras Nasrani, El Gorah" — 50

Other — 100

El Salvador       

San Salvador — 150

Other — 100

Equitorial Guinea — 150

Eritrea — 100

Estonia — 50

Ethiopia — 100

Fiji — 100

Gabon — 150

Gambia — 150

Georgia — 150

Ghana — 150

Greece       

Kavala Relay Station — 100

Greenland — 150

Grenada — 50

Guatemala       

Guatemala City — 50

Other — 100

Guinea — 150

Guinea Bissau — 150

Guyana — 150

Haiti — 100

Honduras — 150

Hungary       

Budapest — 0

Other — 50

Iceland       

Reykjavik — 50

India — 150

Indonesia — 100

Iraq — 100

Israel — 50

Ivory Coast — 100

Jamaica       

Kingston — 100

Johnston Atoll — 150

Jordan       

"King Faisal AB, Prince Hasan, Shaheed" — 100

Other        — 50

Kazakhstan — 150

Kenya — 100

Kosovo — 100

Kuwait — 100

Kyrgyzstan — 100

Laos — 150

Latvia — 50

Lebanon — 100

Lesotho — 150

Liberia       

Monrovia — 100

Libya — 150

Macedonia — 100

Madagascar — 150

Malawi — 150

Malaysia — 50

Mali — 150

Malta — 50

Marshall Islands       

Majuro — 100

"Kwajalein Atoll, Other" — 50

Mauritania — 150

Mauritius — 50

Mexico       

"Ciudad Juarez, Metapa, Mexico City, Tapachula" — 100

"Hermosito, Merida, Monterrey, Nogales, Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana, Tuxtia Gutierrez" — 50

Micronesia — 150

Moldova — 150

Mongolia — 150

Montenegro — 100

Mozambique — 150

Namibia — 50

Nepal — 150

Nicaragua       

Managua — 100

Other        — 150

Niger — 150

Nigeria — 150

North Korea — 150

Oman       

Muscat — 50

Other — 100

Pakistan — 100

Palau — 50

Panama       

Panama City — 0

Other — 50

Papua New Guinea — 150

Paraguay — 50

Peru — 150

Philippines — 100

Poland — 50

Puerto Rico       

Vieques Island — 50

Qatar        

"Al Udeid, Camp Snoopy, Camp As Syliyah" — 50

Romania — 100

Russia — 150

Rwanda — 100

Sao Tome and Principe — 150

Saudi Arabia — 100

Senegal — 100

Serbia — 100

Sierra Leone — 150

Slovakia — 50

Solomon Islands — 100

South Africa — 50

South Korea       

Area 1 — 150

"Camp Yongin, Gwang Ju AB, Pohang" — 100

Other — 50

Sri Lanka — 150

Suriname — 150

Swaziland — 50

Syria — 100

Taiwan       

Kaohsiung — 100

Taipei — 50

Other — 150

Tajikistan — 100

Tanzania — 150

Thailand       

"Bangkok, Chiang Mai" — 50

Other — 150

Togo — 150

Trinidad and Tobago — 100

Tunisia — 50

Turkey       

"Afyon, Batman, Corlu, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Iskendrun, Mardin, Mersin, Oguzeli, Sabiha Gokcen, Sanliurfa, Tasucu, Nusaybin, Konya, Pirinclik" — 100

Eskisehir — 50

Turkmenistan — 150

Uganda — 100

Ukraine — 150

United Arab Emirates       

"Dubai, Abu Dhabi " — 0

Other — 100

Uzbekistan — 100

Vanuatu — 100

Venezuela — 150

Vietnam — 150

Western Sahara       

Laayoune and MINURSO UN Team Site — 150

Yemen — 100

Zambia — 150

Zimbabwe — 150