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County Cost Group 610 BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA ZZ610

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W-1 · With dependents
$1,728per month

$20,736 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #308 of 338W-1 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,215/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$12/mo · +0.7%2025 $1,716 → 2026 $1,728
W-1 rate selectedMHA ZZ610 ZIPs 15536 16689 16691 17212 17215 17223 +348
PCS compare County Cost Group 610 · W-1 · with dep. · $1,728/mo
County Cost Group 610 $1,728/mo · $20,736/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$1,716
2026$1,728

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 610 — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco $5,472
County Cost Group 670 $1,782
Montgomery $1,773
County Cost Group 660 $1,770
Saginaw $1,767
County Cost Group 650 $1,761
Fort Rucker $1,761
County Cost Group 640 $1,752
County Cost Group 630 $1,746
Fort Leonard Wood $1,740
County Cost Group 620 $1,737
County Cost Group 610 $1,728
Stevens Point $1,728
County Cost Group 600 $1,722
Laughlin AFB $1,722
County Cost Group 590 $1,710
Wichita $1,710
Fort Chaffee $1,701
Alexandria $1,698
County Cost Group 580 $1,698
Erie $1,695
County Cost Group 570 $1,686
Youngstown $1,350

County Cost Group 610 is #308 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 County Cost Group 6100 – $2,319 / month
E-1 $1,308
E-2 $1,308
E-3 $1,308
E-4 $1,308
E-5 $1,410
E-6 $1,710
E-7 $1,779
E-8 $1,854
E-9 $1,965
W-1 $1,728
W-2 $1,809
W-3 $1,905
W-4 $1,989
W-5 $2,097
O-1E $1,791
O-2E $1,890
O-3E $2,004
O-1 $1,455
O-2 $1,707
O-3 $1,902
O-4 $2,127
O-5 $2,292
O-6 $2,307
O-7 $2,319

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

Moving from County Cost Group 610 to San Francisco at W-1 is worth $3,744 a month — about 46 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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