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 $5,439Without $4,641

    O-6 at Camp Pendleton draws $5,439 per month with dependents in 2026, $4,641 without

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    Camp Pendleton, CA
    O-6 · with dependents
    $5,439/ month
    $65,268 / year
    At O-6, this is #21 of 338 stations loaded · high Westchester County $8,136 · low Youngstown $1,839
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$6,973 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$4,641 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
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    PCS compareCamp Pendleton · O-6 · $5,439/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,660/mo · $43,920/yr
    ▼ CUT$1,779−$21,348/yr · like −$27,369 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
    Westchester County$8,136
    San Diego$5,541
    Los Angeles$5,481
    San Luis Obispo$5,475
    Staten Island$5,442
    Camp Pendleton$5,439
    Portsmouth$5,400
    Trenton$5,379
    West Point$5,298
    Portland$5,280
    Youngstown$1,839

    Camp Pendleton is #21 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month — $75,564 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Camp Pendleton0 – $5,484 / month
    E-1$3,627
    E-2$3,627
    E-3$3,627
    E-4$3,627
    E-5$3,963
    E-6$4,398
    E-7$4,494
    E-8$4,596
    E-9$4,779
    W-1$4,419
    W-2$4,536
    W-3$4,662
    W-4$4,824
    W-5$5,019
    O-1E$4,512
    O-2E$4,644
    O-3E$4,854
    O-1$4,023
    O-2$4,395
    O-3$4,659
    O-4$5,085
    O-5$5,391
    O-6$5,439
    O-7$5,484

    Promoting to O-7 here adds $45 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 Pendleton to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $2,697 a month — about 60 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $45 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 17% 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. $5,439 a month of BAH takes more than $5,439 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.