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Dover AFB BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA DE054

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W-4 · With dependents
$3,066per month

$36,792 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #105 of 338W-4 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,931/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$111/mo · +3.8%2025 $2,955 → 2026 $3,066
W-4 rate selectedMHA DE054 ZIPs 19901 19902 19903 19904 19905 19906 +38
PCS compare Dover AFB · W-4 · with dep. · $3,066/mo
Dover AFB $3,066/mo · $36,792/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$2,955
2026$3,066

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

W-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,963 / month
Westchester County $6,963
Charlottesville $3,156
Great Lakes Navtracen $3,156
Philadelphia $3,156
Sacramento $3,144
Tampa $3,141
Traverse City $3,141
Oxford $3,135
Bridgeport $3,129
County Cost Group 850 $3,129
Bremerton $3,126
Dover AFB $3,066
Corvallis $3,063
Fairbanks $3,045
Fresno $3,042
Knoxville $3,036
Asheville $3,033
Orlando $3,033
County Cost Group 840 $3,030
Minneapolis $3,015
Dahlgren $2,997
Allentown $2,991
Stevens Point $1,779

Dover AFB is #105 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,184 a month — $62,208 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 W-4 is worth $3,897 a month — about 433 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.

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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
SHA-256
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