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.

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    Dependents
    With $2,118Without $1,839

    O-2 at Davis-Monthan AFB draws $2,118 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,839 without

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    Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ
    O-2 · with dependents
    $2,118/ month
    $25,416 / year
    At O-2, this is #219 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,451 · low Youngstown $1,332
    MHA AZ015 · ZIPs 85321 85341 85601 85614 85619 85622 +63 more
    Your grade is calledARMY1LTUSMC1stLtNAVYLTJGUSAF1st Lt
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,715 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,839 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Davis-Monthan AFB — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareDavis-Monthan AFB · O-2 · $2,118/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,739/mo · $32,868/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$621+$7,452/yr · like +$9,554 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
    San Francisco$5,451
    Fort Leavenworth$2,130
    County Cost Group 780$2,127
    Fort Wayne$2,127
    Columbia$2,118
    Davis-Monthan AFB$2,118
    Johnson City$2,118
    Lincoln$2,109
    Greensboro$2,106
    Wichita Fls$2,106
    Youngstown$1,332

    Davis-Monthan AFB is #219 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month — $49,428 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Davis-Monthan AFB0 – $2,583 / month
    E-1$1,695
    E-2$1,695
    E-3$1,695
    E-4$1,695
    E-5$1,905
    E-6$2,121
    E-7$2,145
    E-8$2,178
    E-9$2,253
    W-1$2,136
    W-2$2,157
    W-3$2,202
    W-4$2,274
    W-5$2,373
    O-1E$2,148
    O-2E$2,190
    O-3E$2,289
    O-1$1,938
    O-2$2,118
    O-3$2,199
    O-4$2,400
    O-5$2,550
    O-6$2,568
    O-7$2,583

    Promoting to O-3 here adds $81 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 Davis-Monthan AFB to San Francisco at O-2 is worth $3,333 a month — about 41 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $81 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 15% 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. $2,118 a month of BAH takes more than $2,118 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.