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 $1,635Without $1,566

    O-1 at Camp Lejeune draws $1,635 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,566 without

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    Camp Lejeune, NC
    O-1 · with dependents
    $1,635/ month
    $19,620 / year
    At O-1, this is #259 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,172 · low Youngstown $1,218
    MHA NC178 · ZIPs 28445 28460 28539 28540 28541 28542 +8 more
    Your grade is calledARMY2LTUSMC2ndLtNAVYENSUSAF2d Lt
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,096 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,566 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Camp Lejeune — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareCamp Lejeune · O-1 · $1,635/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,517/mo · $30,204/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$882+$10,584/yr · like +$13,569 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
    San Francisco$5,172
    Bismarck$1,674
    Topeka$1,662
    Whiteman AFB$1,656
    Malmstrom SFB$1,641
    Camp Lejeune$1,635
    St Mary And Terrebonne$1,635
    County Cost Group 740$1,632
    Holloman AFB$1,632
    Akron$1,629
    Youngstown$1,218

    Camp Lejeune is #259 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month — $47,448 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Camp Lejeune0 – $2,586 / month
    E-1$1,578
    E-2$1,578
    E-3$1,578
    E-4$1,578
    E-5$1,584
    E-6$1,944
    E-7$1,995
    E-8$2,049
    E-9$2,160
    W-1$1,962
    W-2$2,016
    W-3$2,088
    W-4$2,187
    W-5$2,316
    O-1E$2,001
    O-2E$2,073
    O-3E$2,208
    O-1$1,635
    O-2$1,941
    O-3$2,085
    O-4$2,355
    O-5$2,553
    O-6$2,571
    O-7$2,586

    Promoting to O-2 here adds $306 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 Camp Lejeune to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,537 a month — about 12 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $306 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 4% 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. $1,635 a month of BAH takes more than $1,635 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.