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 $2,916Without $2,343

    O-5 at Cheyenne draws $2,916 per month with dependents in 2026, $2,343 without

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    Cheyenne, WY
    O-5 · with dependents
    $2,916/ month
    $34,992 / year
    At O-5, this is #186 of 338 stations loaded · high Westchester County $8,064 · low Youngstown $1,827
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$3,738 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$2,343 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Cheyenne — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareCheyenne · O-5 · $2,916/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,630/mo · $43,560/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$714+$8,568/yr · like +$10,985 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
    Westchester County$8,064
    Fort Knox$2,943
    Auburn$2,934
    Scott AFB$2,928
    Ocala$2,922
    Cheyenne$2,916
    Kings Bay$2,916
    Fort Carson$2,913
    Grand Haven$2,913
    County Cost Group 790$2,907
    Youngstown$1,827

    Cheyenne is #186 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,237 a month — $74,844 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Cheyenne0 – $2,955 / month
    E-1$1,539
    E-2$1,539
    E-3$1,539
    E-4$1,539
    E-5$1,653
    E-6$2,217
    E-7$2,301
    E-8$2,388
    E-9$2,520
    W-1$2,238
    W-2$2,334
    W-3$2,445
    W-4$2,547
    W-5$2,676
    O-1E$2,313
    O-2E$2,427
    O-3E$2,568
    O-1$1,725
    O-2$2,211
    O-3$2,442
    O-4$2,715
    O-5$2,916
    O-6$2,937
    O-7$2,955

    Promoting to O-6 here adds $21 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 Cheyenne to Westchester County at O-5 is worth $5,148 a month — about 245 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $21 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 24% 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. $2,916 a month of BAH takes more than $2,916 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.