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Camp Pendleton BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA CA024

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W-3 · With dependents
$4,662per month

$55,944 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #15 of 338W-3 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$5,977/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$108/mo · +2.4%2025 $4,554 → 2026 $4,662
W-3 rate selectedMHA CA024 ZIPs 92003 92008 92025 92026 92027 92028 +15
PCS compare Camp Pendleton · W-3 · with dep. · $4,662/mo
Camp Pendleton $4,662/mo · $55,944/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$4,554
2026$4,662

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

Camp Pendleton — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

W-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,654 / month
Westchester County $6,654
Nantucket $5,445
Santa Clara County $5,202
Boston $5,169
Northern New Jersey $5,097
Long Island $5,064
Martha's Vineyard $5,031
Florida Keys $4,884
Monterey $4,842
Hanscom AFB $4,773
Kauai County $4,668
Camp Pendleton $4,662
Staten Island $4,560
Essex CO $4,545
Los Angeles $4,530
San Diego $4,521
Portsmouth $4,476
Miami $4,446
Honolulu County $4,434
Cape Cod-Plymouth $4,425
West Point $4,383
Oakland $4,365
Anniston $1,689

Camp Pendleton is #15 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,965 a month — $59,580 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

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

Moving from Camp Pendleton to Westchester County at W-3 is worth $1,992 a month — about 12 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
SHA-256
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