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County Cost Group 780 BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA ZZ780

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O-1 · With dependents
$1,860per month

$22,320 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #215 of 338O-1 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,385/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$3/mo · +0.2%2025 $1,857 → 2026 $1,860
O-1 rate selectedMHA ZZ780 ZIPs 03570 03575 03576 03579 03581 03582 +854
PCS compare County Cost Group 780 · O-1 · with dep. · $1,860/mo
County Cost Group 780 $1,860/mo · $22,320/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$1,857
2026$1,860

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 780 — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco $5,172
Bloomington $1,920
Lexington $1,917
Mobile $1,917
Columbia $1,914
Pensacola $1,914
San Antonio (JBSA) $1,905
Humboldt County $1,893
Morehead $1,884
Shreveport $1,875
Little Rock $1,869
County Cost Group 780 $1,860
Fort Leavenworth $1,860
Tallahassee $1,860
Fort Bliss $1,857
Fort Campbell $1,857
State College $1,854
Greensboro $1,851
Marquette $1,851
Corpus Christi $1,845
Fort Bragg $1,842
Coos Bay $1,839
Youngstown $1,218

County Cost Group 780 is #215 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month — $47,448 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at County Cost Group 7800 – $2,847 / month
E-1 $1,689
E-2 $1,689
E-3 $1,689
E-4 $1,689
E-5 $1,815
E-6 $2,130
E-7 $2,208
E-8 $2,292
E-9 $2,424
W-1 $2,148
W-2 $2,244
W-3 $2,349
W-4 $2,451
W-5 $2,577
O-1E $2,220
O-2E $2,331
O-3E $2,469
O-1 $1,860
O-2 $2,127
O-3 $2,346
O-4 $2,613
O-5 $2,808
O-6 $2,829
O-7 $2,847

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

Moving from County Cost Group 780 to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,312 a month — about 12 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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