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Columbus AFB BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA MS169

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W-4 · With dependents
$2,250per month

$27,000 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #257 of 338W-4 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,885/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$120/mo · +5.6%2025 $2,130 → 2026 $2,250
W-4 rate selectedMHA MS169 ZIPs 39701 39702 39703 39704 39705 39710 +8
PCS compare Columbus AFB · W-4 · with dep. · $2,250/mo
Columbus AFB $2,250/mo · $27,000/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$2,130
2026$2,250

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

W-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,963 / month
Westchester County $6,963
Brownsville $2,292
Champaign $2,280
Lansing $2,280
Laughlin AFB $2,280
Davis-Monthan AFB $2,274
Fort Bragg $2,271
China Lake $2,268
Fort Huachuca $2,265
Fort Bliss $2,256
Tulsa $2,253
Columbus AFB $2,250
County Cost Group 750 $2,247
Goodfellow AFB $2,247
Minot AFB $2,247
Lexington $2,241
Wright-Patterson AFB $2,232
Columbia $2,226
Wilkes-Barre $2,214
County Cost Group 740 $2,193
Sioux Falls $2,193
Camp Lejeune $2,187
Stevens Point $1,779

Columbus AFB is #257 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,184 a month — $62,208 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 Westchester County at W-4 is worth $4,713 a month — about 54 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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