Hardship duty pay-location compensates service members assigned to areas with extraordinarily arduous quality-of-life conditions
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 for all locations that qualify for the pay. If no specific cities within a country are listed, all locations in that country qualify for the pay. Locations with an asterisk (*) also qualify for combat-zone tax relief benefits. Areas that currently qualify for HDP-L, and the monthly rates:
Area | Monthly rate | ||
Afghanistan* | $100 | ||
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 | 50 | ||
Azerbaijan | 100 | ||
Azores (Portugal) | 50 | ||
Bahamas | |||
Andros Island | 50 | ||
Bahrain* | 50 | ||
Bangladesh | 150 | ||
Belarus | 150 | ||
Belize | |||
Belize City | 100 | ||
Other | 150 | ||
Benin | 150 | ||
Bolivia | |||
Cochabamba, Santa Cruz | 50 | ||
Other | 150 | ||
Bosnia-Herzegovina | 150 | ||
Botswana | |||
Selabi Phikwe | 150 | ||
Other | 50 | ||
Brazil | |||
Ceara, Recife, Sao Paulo, | |||
Fortaleza, Pernambuco and | |||
the states of Amazonas, | |||
Brazilia, Goias, Maranhao, | |||
Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso | |||
do Sul, Para, Piaui, Rondonia, | |||
Roriame, Rio de Janeiro | 50 | ||
Brunei | 100 | ||
Bulgaria | 50 | ||
Burkina Faso | 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 | |||
Chengdu, Shenyang, | |||
Guangzhou, other | 150 | ||
Beijing, Shanghai | 100 | ||
Hong Kong | 50 | ||
Colombia | 50 | ||
Congo | 150 | ||
Cook Islands | |||
Rarotonga | 50 | ||
Other | 100 | ||
Costa Rica | |||
All except San Jose | 50 | ||
Cuba | |||
Havana, | |||
JTF-Guantanamo Bay | 150 | ||
JTF-Guantanamo Bay duty | |||
within detention facility; | |||
other Guantanamo Bay | 100 | ||
Other Cuba | 50 | ||
Democratic Republic of Congo | 100 | ||
Djibouti* | 100 | ||
Dominican Republic | 100 | ||
East Timor | 150 | ||
Ecuador | |||
Guayaquil | 100 | ||
Other | 50 | ||
Egypt | 100 | ||
El Salvador | 100 | ||
Equitorial Guinea | 150 | ||
Eritrea | 100 | ||
Estonia | 50 | ||
Ethiopia | 100 | ||
Fiji | 150 | ||
Gabon | |||
Libreville | 100 | ||
Other | 150 | ||
Gambia | 150 | ||
Georgia | 150 | ||
Ghana | 150 | ||
Greece | |||
Kavala Relay Station | 100 | ||
Athens, Elefsis, Ellinikon, | |||
Mt. Parnis, Mt. Pateras, | |||
Nes Makri, Piraeus, | |||
Tanagra | 50 | ||
Greenland | 150 | ||
Grenada | 50 | ||
Guatemala | |||
Guatemala City | 150 | ||
Other | 150 | ||
Guinea | 150 | ||
Guinea Bissau | 150 | ||
Guyana | 150 | ||
Haiti | 100 | ||
Honduras | 100 | ||
Hungary | |||
All except Budapest | 50 | ||
Iceland | |||
All except Keflavik, Grindavik | 50 | ||
India | 150 | ||
Indonesia | 100 | ||
Iraq* | 100 | ||
Ivory Coast | 100 | ||
Jamaica | |||
Kingston | 100 | ||
Johnston Atoll | 150 | ||
Jordan | |||
King Faisal AB, Prince Hasan, | |||
Shaheed | 100 | ||
Other | 50 | ||
Kazakhstan | 150 | ||
Kenya | 100 | ||
Kiribati | 50 | ||
Kosovo* | 100 | ||
Kuwait* | 50 | ||
Kyrgyzstan | 150 | ||
Laos | 150 | ||
Latvia | 50 | ||
Lebanon | 100 | ||
Lesotho | 150 | ||
Liberia | 150 | ||
Libya | 100 | ||
Lithuania | 50 | ||
Macedonia | 50 | ||
Madagascar | 150 | ||
Malawi | 150 | ||
Malaysia | 50 | ||
Mali | 150 | ||
Malta | 50 | ||
Marshall Islands | |||
Majuro | 150 | ||
Kwajalein Atoll, other | 50 | ||
Mauritania | 150 | ||
Mauritius | 50 | ||
Mexico | |||
Hermosillo, Merida, Metapa, | |||
Mexico City, Tapachula | 100 | ||
Ciudad Juarez, Guadalajara, | |||
Matamoros, Mazatlan, | |||
Monterrey, Nogales, Nuevo | |||
Laredo, Reynosa, Tijuana, | |||
Tuxtia Gutierrez | 50 | ||
Micronesia | 150 | ||
Moldova | 150 | ||
Mongolia | 150 | ||
Montenegro* | |||
Podgorica | 150 | ||
Other | 50 | ||
Morocco | |||
Casablanca | 50 | ||
Mozambique | 150 | ||
Namibia | 50 | ||
Nepal | 150 | ||
Nicaragua | |||
Managua | 100 | ||
Other | 150 | ||
Niger | 150 | ||
Nigeria | 150 | ||
North Korea | 150 | ||
Oman* | |||
Salalah | 100 | ||
All other except Muscat | 150 | ||
Pakistan* | 100 | ||
Palau | 50 | ||
Panama | |||
All except Panama City | 50 | ||
Papua New Guinea | 150 | ||
Paraguay | 50 | ||
Peru | 100 | ||
Philippines* | 100 | ||
Qatar* | 50 | ||
Romania | 50 | ||
Russia | |||
Moscow, St. Petersburg | 100 | ||
Other | 150 | ||
Rwanda | 150 | ||
Samoa | 150 | ||
Sao Tome and Principe | 150 | ||
Saudi Arabia* | 150 | ||
Senegal | 150 | ||
Serbia* | 150 | ||
Sierra Leone | 150 | ||
Slovakia | 50 | ||
Solomon Islands | 100 | ||
Somalia* | 100 | ||
South Africa | 50 | ||
South Korea | |||
Area 1 | 150 | ||
Camp Yongin, Gwang | |||
Ju AB, Pohang | 100 | ||
Other | 50 | ||
Sri Lanka | 150 | ||
Sudan | 100 | ||
Suriname | 150 | ||
Swaziland | 100 | ||
Syria* | 100 | ||
Taiwan | |||
Kaohsiung, Taipei | 50 | ||
Other | 150 | ||
Tajikistan | 150 | ||
Tanzania | 150 | ||
Thailand | |||
Bangkok, Chiang Mai | 50 | ||
Other | 150 | ||
Togo | 150 | ||
Trinidad and Tobago | 50 | ||
Tunisia | 50 | ||
Turkey | |||
Afyon, Batman, Corlu, | |||
Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, | |||
Iskendrun, Mardin, Mersin, | |||
Oguzeli, Sabiha Gokcen, | |||
Sanliurfa, Tasucu, Nusaybin, | |||
Konya, Pirinclik, Eskisehir | 50 | ||
Turkmenistan | 150 | ||
Uganda | 100 | ||
Ukraine | 150 | ||
United Arab Emirates* | |||
All except Dubai, Abu Dhabi | 100 | ||
Uzbekistan | 150 | ||
Vanuatu | 100 | ||
Venezuela | 150 | ||
Vietnam | 150 | ||
Western Sahara | |||
Laayoune and MINURSO | |||
UN Team Sites | 150 | ||
Yemen* | 100 | ||
Zambia | |||
Lusaka | 100 | ||
Other | 150 | ||
Zimbabwe | 150 |