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County Cost Group 600 BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA ZZ600

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E-8 · With dependents
$1,845per month

$22,140 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #316 of 338E-8 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,365/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$12/mo · +0.7%2025 $1,833 → 2026 $1,845
E-8 rate selectedMHA ZZ600 ZIPs 15832 15834 15861 16301 16317 16319 +602
PCS compare County Cost Group 600 · E-8 · with dep. · $1,845/mo
County Cost Group 600 $1,845/mo · $22,140/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$1,833
2026$1,845

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

COUNTY COST GROUP

This is not one installation. DTMO groups counties without a dedicated base into a "County Cost Group". The rate applies to any member whose duty location falls in one of the ZIP codes listed above.

County Cost Group 600 — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County $6,333
County Cost Group 650 $1,887
Montgomery $1,887
Alexandria $1,884
Huntington $1,881
County Cost Group 640 $1,878
Wichita $1,878
County Cost Group 630 $1,869
County Cost Group 620 $1,863
County Cost Group 610 $1,854
Meridian $1,854
County Cost Group 600 $1,845
Charleston $1,833
County Cost Group 590 $1,833
Erie $1,824
County Cost Group 580 $1,821
Saginaw $1,818
Albany $1,815
County Cost Group 570 $1,809
Cannon AFB $1,806
County Cost Group 560 $1,800
County Cost Group 550 $1,788
Anniston $1,638

County Cost Group 600 is #316 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month — $56,340 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at County Cost Group 6000 – $2,310 / month
E-1 $1,302
E-2 $1,302
E-3 $1,302
E-4 $1,302
E-5 $1,404
E-6 $1,704
E-7 $1,773
E-8 $1,845
E-9 $1,956
W-1 $1,722
W-2 $1,803
W-3 $1,896
W-4 $1,980
W-5 $2,088
O-1E $1,782
O-2E $1,881
O-3E $1,998
O-1 $1,446
O-2 $1,701
O-3 $1,893
O-4 $2,118
O-5 $2,280
O-6 $2,298
O-7 $2,310

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

Moving from County Cost Group 600 to Westchester County at E-8 is worth $4,488 a month — about 40 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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