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Brownsville BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA TX281

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E-6 · With dependents
$1,860per month

$22,320 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #272 of 338E-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,385/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change−$99/mo · −5.1%2025 $1,959 → 2026 $1,860
E-6 rate selectedMHA TX281 ZIPs 78501 78502 78503 78504 78505 78516 +46
PCS compare Brownsville · E-6 · with dep. · $1,860/mo
Brownsville $1,860/mo · $22,320/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$1,959
2026$1,860

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

Brownsville — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco $5,454
Moody AFB $1,917
Morgantown $1,917
County Cost Group 740 $1,896
Fort Drum $1,893
Wilkes-Barre $1,887
Robins AFB $1,878
Paducah $1,875
Holloman AFB $1,869
Topeka $1,869
County Cost Group 730 $1,863
Brownsville $1,860
Peoria $1,860
Springfield $1,857
Oklahoma City $1,854
Wright-Patterson AFB $1,851
Lafayette $1,845
Sparta $1,845
Yuma $1,845
County Cost Group 720 $1,839
Goodfellow AFB $1,836
Auburn $1,833
Youngstown $1,335

Brownsville is #272 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 Brownsville0 – $2,757 / month
E-1 $1,413
E-2 $1,413
E-3 $1,413
E-4 $1,413
E-5 $1,503
E-6 $1,860
E-7 $1,971
E-8 $2,094
E-9 $2,259
W-1 $1,878
W-2 $2,022
W-3 $2,172
W-4 $2,292
W-5 $2,442
O-1E $1,992
O-2E $2,148
O-3E $2,316
O-1 $1,551
O-2 $1,857
O-3 $2,169
O-4 $2,490
O-5 $2,721
O-6 $2,742
O-7 $2,757

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

Moving from Brownsville to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $3,594 a month — about 32 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
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