Methods and apparatus for signaling tone allocations in OFDMA communication are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes determining a tone allocation which divides a plurality of tones between a plurality of wireless communication devices, the tone allocation including at least one of determining a plurality of subbands, each subband comprising an exclusive contiguous subset of the plurality of tones, at least one subband of the plurality of subbands assigned to two or more devices of the plurality of wireless communication and assigning a tone group size to each wireless communication device of the plurality of wireless communication devices, wherein the tone group size indicates a number of contiguous tones that the wireless communication device is allocated, wherein at least one tone group size is larger than one. The method also includes transmitting the tone allocation to each of the plurality of wireless communication devices.