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Allentown BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA PA255

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O-4 · With dependents
$3,207per month

$38,484 per year · federal tax-free allowance

Official DoD / DTMO rate · CONUS BAH, not an estimate

National position #113 of 338O-4 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$4,112/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$174/mo · +5.7%2025 $3,033 → 2026 $3,207
O-4 rate selectedMHA PA255 ZIPs 18001 18002 18003 18005 18011 18013 +67
PCS compare Allentown · O-4 · with dep. · $3,207/mo
Allentown $3,207/mo · $38,484/yr
CURRENT

Pick a station below to see what the move is worth a year, before tax. Orders rarely arrive as one option — add several and rank them.

Comparison uses with-dependents rates. Differences are annual and untaxed. Rate protection is not applied — a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.

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Rate history

How updates work
2025$3,033
2026$3,207

Verified official history. With-dependents rate shown; use the dependency switch above for its exact comparison.

Allentown — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
Westchester County $7,470
Whidbey Island $3,279
Bremerton $3,258
Tampa $3,255
Traverse City $3,255
Dahlgren $3,243
Knoxville $3,243
Detroit $3,228
County Cost Group 840 $3,225
Fresno $3,213
Fairbanks $3,210
Allentown $3,207
Beaufort $3,192
Minneapolis $3,183
College Station $3,165
County Cost Group 830 $3,138
Orlando $3,135
Reno $3,120
Patrick SFB $3,108
Humboldt County $3,099
Buffalo $3,093
Eugene $3,090
Youngstown $1,809

Allentown is #113 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month — $67,932 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Allentown0 – $3,516 / month
E-1 $2,259
E-2 $2,259
E-3 $2,259
E-4 $2,259
E-5 $2,373
E-6 $2,841
E-7 $2,865
E-8 $2,874
E-9 $2,955
W-1 $2,862
W-2 $2,871
W-3 $2,883
W-4 $2,991
W-5 $3,156
O-1E $2,868
O-2E $2,877
O-3E $3,015
O-1 $2,436
O-2 $2,835
O-3 $2,880
O-4 $3,207
O-5 $3,465
O-6 $3,492
O-7 $3,516

The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.

Moving from Allentown to Westchester County at O-4 is worth $4,263 a month — about 17 promotions at this grade. Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.

What the rate table does not tell you

01

“With dependents” is a dependency status, not a marital status. A single member paying child support can be authorized BAH-Diff; a married dual-military couple with no children is not automatically the with-dependents rate for both. If your situation is unusual, your finance office decides — not this table.

02

O-8, O-9 and O-10 draw the same BAH as O-7. The table stops there for a reason, not because it is missing rows.

03

This is CONUS BAH only. Overseas is OHA, which works differently — it reimburses actual rent up to a cap, with separate utility and move-in allowances. Alaska and Hawaii are BAH; Germany, Japan and Korea are OHA.

Source: DoD Defense Travel Management Office, effective 01 JAN 2026. How these rates are sourced and checked.

Source record

Where these numbers come from

Official fields remain unchanged. Years are aligned by DTMO's MHA code; no missing value is interpolated.

2026 official releaseDTMO source archive
Effective
2026-01-01
Retrieved
2026-09-05
Last verified
2026-09-07
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2025 official releaseDTMO source archive
Effective
2025-01-01
Retrieved
2026-09-07
Last verified
2026-09-07
SHA-256
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