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Dover AFB BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA DE054

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E-7 · With dependents
$2,694per month

$32,328 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #122 of 338E-7 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,454/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$165/mo · +6.5%2025 $2,529 → 2026 $2,694
E-7 rate selectedMHA DE054 ZIPs 19901 19902 19903 19904 19905 19906 +38
PCS compare Dover AFB · E-7 · with dep. · $2,694/mo
Dover AFB $2,694/mo · $32,328/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$2,529
2026$2,694

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

Dover AFB — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-7 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,832 / month
Westchester County $5,832
Minneapolis $2,826
Rome $2,790
Corvallis $2,769
Dahlgren $2,763
Coastal Maine $2,760
County Cost Group 840 $2,745
Knoxville $2,745
Atlanta $2,730
Reno $2,721
Nashville $2,712
Dover AFB $2,694
St. Louis $2,691
Savannah $2,685
Richmond $2,676
County Cost Group 830 $2,670
Asheville $2,667
Spokane $2,658
Charleston $2,652
Detroit $2,652
Twenty Nine Palms MCB $2,649
Buffalo $2,631
Youngstown $1,491

Dover AFB is #122 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,341 a month — $52,092 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Dover AFB0 – $3,123 / month
E-1 $2,160
E-2 $2,160
E-3 $2,160
E-4 $2,160
E-5 $2,277
E-6 $2,493
E-7 $2,694
E-8 $2,916
E-9 $3,063
W-1 $2,511
W-2 $2,787
W-3 $3,060
W-4 $3,066
W-5 $3,075
O-1E $2,736
O-2E $3,018
O-3E $3,069
O-1 $2,310
O-2 $2,490
O-3 $3,051
O-4 $3,078
O-5 $3,081
O-6 $3,105
O-7 $3,123

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

Moving from Dover AFB to Westchester County at E-7 is worth $3,138 a month — about 14 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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