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Battle Creek BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA MI152

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O-2E · With dependents
$2,505per month

$30,060 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #174 of 338O-2E · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,212/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$117/mo · +4.9%2025 $2,388 → 2026 $2,505
O-2E rate selectedMHA MI152 ZIPs 49001 49002 49003 49004 49005 49006 +33
PCS compare Battle Creek · O-2E · with dep. · $2,505/mo
Battle Creek $2,505/mo · $30,060/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$2,388
2026$2,505

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

Battle Creek — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-2E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,564 / month
Westchester County $6,564
Columbus $2,556
Tallahassee $2,550
Carlisle Barracks $2,547
Dahlonega $2,547
Grand Haven $2,547
New Orleans $2,541
Chattanooga $2,511
Myrtle Beach $2,511
Provo $2,511
Durham $2,508
Battle Creek $2,505
Fargo $2,499
County Cost Group 800 $2,493
Bangor $2,487
Phoenix $2,487
Jackson $2,481
Fort Campbell $2,472
Charlotte $2,469
Hampton $2,466
Eastern Panhandle $2,463
Corpus Christi $2,457
Anniston $1,671

Battle Creek is #174 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,893 a month — $58,716 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Battle Creek0 – $3,015 / month
E-1 $1,698
E-2 $1,698
E-3 $1,698
E-4 $1,698
E-5 $1,959
E-6 $2,370
E-7 $2,424
E-8 $2,478
E-9 $2,589
W-1 $2,391
W-2 $2,445
W-3 $2,517
W-4 $2,616
W-5 $2,742
O-1E $2,430
O-2E $2,505
O-3E $2,634
O-1 $2,013
O-2 $2,367
O-3 $2,514
O-4 $2,781
O-5 $2,973
O-6 $2,997
O-7 $3,015

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

Moving from Battle Creek to Westchester County at O-2E is worth $4,059 a month — about 31 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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