Rates effective
01 JAN 2026 · CONUS

Basic Allowance for Housing by duty station, pay grade and dependency status. Official DoD rates, no login, no email.

Duty station or MHA
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    Dependents
    With $3,129Without $2,892

    O-2 at Beale AFB draws $3,129 per month with dependents in 2026, $2,892 without

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    Beale AFB, CA
    O-2 · with dependents
    $3,129/ month
    $37,548 / year
    At O-2, this is #66 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,451 · low Youngstown $1,332
    MHA CA033 · ZIPs 95602 95603 95604 95648 95650 95658 +73 more
    Your grade is calledARMY1LTUSMC1stLtNAVYLTJGUSAF1st Lt
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$4,012 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$2,892 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
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    PCS compareBeale AFB · O-2 · $3,129/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,739/mo · $32,868/yr
    ▼ CUT$390−$4,680/yr · like −$6,000 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
    San Francisco$5,451
    Sitka$3,225
    County Cost Group 880$3,201
    Quantico$3,171
    Edwards AFB$3,153
    Beale AFB$3,129
    Ann Arbor$3,075
    Cape May$3,069
    New London$3,069
    Denver$3,060
    Youngstown$1,332

    Beale AFB is #66 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 Beale AFB0 – $3,546 / month
    E-1$2,733
    E-2$2,733
    E-3$2,733
    E-4$2,733
    E-5$2,967
    E-6$3,132
    E-7$3,150
    E-8$3,159
    E-9$3,195
    W-1$3,147
    W-2$3,156
    W-3$3,168
    W-4$3,216
    W-5$3,315
    O-1E$3,153
    O-2E$3,162
    O-3E$3,231
    O-1$2,994
    O-2$3,129
    O-3$3,165
    O-4$3,342
    O-5$3,492
    O-6$3,522
    O-7$3,546

    Promoting to O-3 here adds $36 a month. The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.

    01

    Where you are stationed outweighs what you are paid. Moving from Beale AFB to San Francisco at O-2 is worth $2,322 a month — about 65 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $36 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 8% here. That is a status your finance office determines, not a box you tick — and it is the single largest lever on this page that is not a change of address.

    03

    None of it is taxed. $3,129 a month of BAH takes more than $3,129 of basic pay to match, which is why comparing a civilian salary against military base pay alone understates the gap.

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    Things the rate table doesn't 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.