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Eastern Panhandle BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA WV454

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W-3 · With dependents
$2,481per month

$29,772 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #181 of 338W-3 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,181/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$15/mo · +0.6%2025 $2,466 → 2026 $2,481
W-3 rate selectedMHA WV454 ZIPs 25401 25402 25403 25404 25405 25410 +17
PCS compare Eastern Panhandle · W-3 · with dep. · $2,481/mo
Eastern Panhandle $2,481/mo · $29,772/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$2,466
2026$2,481

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

Eastern Panhandle — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

W-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,654 / month
Westchester County $6,654
Myrtle Beach $2,526
Bangor $2,523
Chattanooga $2,523
Durham $2,520
Battle Creek $2,517
Fargo $2,514
County Cost Group 800 $2,511
Jackson $2,505
Fort Campbell $2,499
Phoenix $2,493
Eastern Panhandle $2,481
Corpus Christi $2,478
Fort Drum $2,478
Hampton $2,478
Rapid City $2,478
Bloomington $2,475
Charlotte $2,475
Fort Worth $2,463
Cleveland $2,460
Lemoore NAS $2,454
Cheyenne $2,445
Anniston $1,689

Eastern Panhandle is #181 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,965 a month — $59,580 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Eastern Panhandle0 – $3,072 / month
E-1 $1,899
E-2 $1,899
E-3 $1,899
E-4 $1,899
E-5 $2,058
E-6 $2,253
E-7 $2,334
E-8 $2,421
E-9 $2,568
W-1 $2,271
W-2 $2,370
W-3 $2,481
W-4 $2,598
W-5 $2,748
O-1E $2,346
O-2E $2,463
O-3E $2,622
O-1 $2,091
O-2 $2,250
O-3 $2,478
O-4 $2,796
O-5 $3,027
O-6 $3,051
O-7 $3,072

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

Moving from Eastern Panhandle to Westchester County at W-3 is worth $4,173 a month — about 36 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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