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Columbus AFB BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA MS169

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E-6 · With dependents
$1,998per month

$23,976 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #241 of 338E-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,562/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$186/mo · +10.3%2025 $1,812 → 2026 $1,998
E-6 rate selectedMHA MS169 ZIPs 39701 39702 39703 39704 39705 39710 +8
PCS compare Columbus AFB · E-6 · with dep. · $1,998/mo
Columbus AFB $1,998/mo · $23,976/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$1,812
2026$1,998

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

Columbus AFB — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco $5,454
County Cost Group 770 $2,067
Tallahassee $2,061
Bangor $2,052
Fort Bragg $2,049
Morehead $2,046
Fayetteville $2,040
Shreveport $2,028
Sioux Falls $2,025
Marquette $2,010
Grand Forks $2,004
Columbus AFB $1,998
Scott AFB $1,998
County Cost Group 760 $1,995
Lexington $1,995
Lansing $1,983
Champaign $1,980
Minot AFB $1,980
Fort Benning $1,977
Bloomington $1,956
Seymour Johnson AFB $1,950
County Cost Group 750 $1,947
Youngstown $1,335

Columbus AFB is #241 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 Columbus AFB0 – $2,526 / month
E-1 $1,302
E-2 $1,302
E-3 $1,302
E-4 $1,302
E-5 $1,398
E-6 $1,998
E-7 $2,067
E-8 $2,136
E-9 $2,232
W-1 $2,019
W-2 $2,094
W-3 $2,184
W-4 $2,250
W-5 $2,337
O-1E $2,076
O-2E $2,169
O-3E $2,265
O-1 $1,476
O-2 $1,992
O-3 $2,181
O-4 $2,361
O-5 $2,493
O-6 $2,511
O-7 $2,526

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

Moving from Columbus AFB to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $3,456 a month — about 50 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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