BAH Rate Desk2026
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
    Try Fort Liberty, Cavazos, Moore or a ZIP — old and unofficial names resolve.
    Or type your rank
    Enlisted
    E-1E-2E-3E-4E-5E-6E-7E-8E-9
    Warrant
    W-1W-2W-3W-4W-5
    Prior enl.
    O-1EO-2EO-3E
    Officer
    O-1O-2O-3O-4O-5O-6O-7
    Dependents
    WithWithout

    O-2E without dependents at Beaumont draws $1,692 per month in 2026

    Permalinkbahratedesk.com/beaumont-tx/o-2e/without/ExcelCSVDownloads cover this station.
    Beaumont, TX
    O-2E · without dependents
    $1,692/ month
    $20,304 / year
    At O-2E, this is #277 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,268 · low Youngstown $1,305
    MHA TX273 · ZIPs 77374 77376 77519 77585 77611 77613 +35 more
    Your grade is calledARMY1LTUSMC1stLtNAVYLTJGUSAF1st Lt
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,169 / mo gross
    Other dependency status here$1,953 with dependents
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Beaumont — full sheetTap a row
    GradeWith dep.Without
    Enlisted
    E-1$1,488$1,251
    E-2$1,488$1,251
    E-3$1,488$1,251
    E-4$1,488$1,251
    E-5$1,518$1,377
    E-6$1,917$1,458
    E-7$1,941$1,497
    E-8$1,950$1,602
    E-9$2,028$1,716
    Warrant officer
    W-1$1,938$1,494
    W-2$1,947$1,599
    W-3$1,959$1,731
    W-4$2,064$1,914
    W-5$2,235$1,923
    Officer — prior enlisted
    O-1E$1,944$1,518
    O-2E$1,953$1,692
    O-3E$2,091$1,911
    Officer
    O-1$1,572$1,455
    O-2$1,914$1,515
    O-3$1,956$1,770
    O-4$2,289$1,917
    O-5$2,553$1,926
    O-6$2,571$1,929
    O-7$2,589$1,941
    PCS compareBeaumont · O-2E · $1,692/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,592/mo · $31,104/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$900+$10,800/yr · like +$13,846 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-2E without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,268 / month
    San Francisco$5,268
    Lafayette$1,695
    Moody AFB$1,695
    Peoria$1,695
    Sumter$1,695
    Beaumont$1,692
    County Cost Group 730$1,689
    Goodfellow AFB$1,689
    Fort Rucker$1,674
    County Cost Group 720$1,665
    Youngstown$1,305

    Beaumont is #277 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,963 a month — $47,556 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Beaumont0 – $1,941 / month
    E-1$1,251
    E-2$1,251
    E-3$1,251
    E-4$1,251
    E-5$1,377
    E-6$1,458
    E-7$1,497
    E-8$1,602
    E-9$1,716
    W-1$1,494
    W-2$1,599
    W-3$1,731
    W-4$1,914
    W-5$1,923
    O-1E$1,518
    O-2E$1,692
    O-3E$1,911
    O-1$1,455
    O-2$1,515
    O-3$1,770
    O-4$1,917
    O-5$1,926
    O-6$1,929
    O-7$1,941

    Promoting to O-3E here adds $219 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 Beaumont to San Francisco at O-2E is worth $3,576 a month — about 16 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $219 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 15% 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. $1,692 a month of BAH takes more than $1,692 of basic pay to match, which is why comparing a civilian salary against military base pay alone understates the gap.

    Ad slot — in-content, after the answerPlaced below the number, never above it. VA-loan and PCS-move advertisers bid here.

    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.