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County Cost Group 800 BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA ZZ800

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E-5 · With dependents
$1,962per month

$23,544 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #186 of 338E-5 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,515/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$84/mo · +4.5%2025 $1,878 → 2026 $1,962
E-5 rate selectedMHA ZZ800 ZIPs 04010 04016 04022 04037 04041 04051 +579
PCS compare County Cost Group 800 · E-5 · with dep. · $1,962/mo
County Cost Group 800 $1,962/mo · $23,544/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$1,878
2026$1,962

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 800 — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco $5,127
Toledo $2,031
Salem $2,004
Barstow $2,001
Cleveland $1,998
Louisville $1,989
Chattanooga $1,986
El Centro $1,986
Kansas City $1,986
Rapid City $1,986
Twenty Nine Palms MCB $1,980
County Cost Group 800 $1,962
Battle Creek $1,959
Fort Wayne $1,947
Boise $1,926
Greenville $1,923
Yakima $1,923
Jackson $1,920
Roanoke $1,911
Rock Island $1,908
Bloomington $1,905
Davis-Monthan AFB $1,905
Anniston $1,185

County Cost Group 800 is #186 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month — $47,304 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at County Cost Group 8000 – $3,039 / month
E-1 $1,827
E-2 $1,827
E-3 $1,827
E-4 $1,827
E-5 $1,962
E-6 $2,283
E-7 $2,364
E-8 $2,454
E-9 $2,589
W-1 $2,301
W-2 $2,400
W-3 $2,511
W-4 $2,619
W-5 $2,751
O-1E $2,379
O-2E $2,493
O-3E $2,640
O-1 $2,007
O-2 $2,280
O-3 $2,508
O-4 $2,793
O-5 $2,997
O-6 $3,021
O-7 $3,039

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

Moving from County Cost Group 800 to San Francisco at E-5 is worth $3,165 a month — about 10 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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