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Altus AFB BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA OK235

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E-6 · With dependents
$1,563per month

$18,756 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #331 of 338E-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,004/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$90/mo · +6.1%2025 $1,473 → 2026 $1,563
E-6 rate selectedMHA OK235 ZIPs 73521 73522 73523 73526 73532 73537 +4
PCS compare Altus AFB · E-6 · with dep. · $1,563/mo
Altus AFB $1,563/mo · $18,756/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$1,473
2026$1,563

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

Altus AFB — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco $5,454
County Cost Group 570 $1,668
County Cost Group 560 $1,659
County Cost Group 550 $1,650
St Mary And Terrebonne $1,650
County Cost Group 540 $1,641
County Cost Group 530 $1,635
County Cost Group 520 $1,629
Monroe $1,629
County Cost Group 510 $1,626
Lake Charles $1,626
Columbia $1,623
Gulfport $1,620
Cannon AFB $1,593
Altus AFB $1,563
Meridian $1,545
Albany $1,539
Hattiesburg $1,524
Vance AFB $1,512
Fort Sill $1,494
Anniston $1,491
Youngstown $1,335

Altus AFB is #331 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month — $49,428 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Altus AFB0 – $2,373 / month
E-1 $1,173
E-2 $1,173
E-3 $1,173
E-4 $1,173
E-5 $1,254
E-6 $1,563
E-7 $1,662
E-8 $1,767
E-9 $1,917
W-1 $1,581
W-2 $1,704
W-3 $1,836
W-4 $1,947
W-5 $2,088
O-1E $1,680
O-2E $1,818
O-3E $1,971
O-1 $1,299
O-2 $1,560
O-3 $1,833
O-4 $2,130
O-5 $2,343
O-6 $2,358
O-7 $2,373

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

Moving from Altus AFB to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $3,891 a month — about 39 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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