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 $2,238Without $1,680

    W-1 at Corpus Christi draws $2,238 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,680 without

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    Corpus Christi, TX
    W-1 · with dependents
    $2,238/ month
    $26,856 / year
    At W-1, this is #196 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,472 · low Youngstown $1,350
    MHA TX275 · ZIPs 78330 78335 78336 78339 78343 78347 +45 more
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,869 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,680 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Corpus Christi — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareCorpus Christi · W-1 · $2,238/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,760/mo · $33,120/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$522+$6,264/yr · like +$8,031 of salary

    What this rate means

    W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
    San Francisco$5,472
    Ogden$2,244
    Provo$2,244
    Cheyenne$2,238
    Coos Bay$2,238
    Corpus Christi$2,238
    County Cost Group 790$2,229
    Des Moines$2,229
    Indianapolis$2,229
    Rapid City$2,229
    Youngstown$1,350

    Corpus Christi is #196 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month — $49,464 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Corpus Christi0 – $3,006 / month
    E-1$1,644
    E-2$1,644
    E-3$1,644
    E-4$1,644
    E-5$1,788
    E-6$2,217
    E-7$2,310
    E-8$2,412
    E-9$2,553
    W-1$2,238
    W-2$2,352
    W-3$2,478
    W-4$2,583
    W-5$2,718
    O-1E$2,328
    O-2E$2,457
    O-3E$2,604
    O-1$1,845
    O-2$2,214
    O-3$2,475
    O-4$2,757
    O-5$2,964
    O-6$2,988
    O-7$3,006

    Promoting to W-2 here adds $114 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 Corpus Christi to San Francisco at W-1 is worth $3,234 a month — about 28 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $114 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 33% 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. $2,238 a month of BAH takes more than $2,238 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.