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Elizabeth City BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA NC181

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W-1 · With dependents
$2,577per month

$30,924 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #129 of 338W-1 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,304/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$183/mo · +7.6%2025 $2,394 → 2026 $2,577
W-1 rate selectedMHA NC181 ZIPs 27906 27907 27909 27919 27921 27930 +4
PCS compare Elizabeth City · W-1 · with dep. · $2,577/mo
Elizabeth City $2,577/mo · $30,924/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$2,394
2026$2,577

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

Elizabeth City — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco $5,472
St. Louis $2,673
Knoxville $2,670
Savannah $2,670
Richmond $2,646
Charleston $2,634
Pittsburgh $2,625
Detroit $2,601
County Cost Group 830 $2,598
Asheville $2,589
Brunswick $2,583
Elizabeth City $2,577
Norfolk $2,574
Spokane $2,574
Buffalo $2,571
Twenty Nine Palms MCB $2,571
Patuxent River $2,562
Helena $2,556
Fort Collins $2,550
Birmingham $2,547
Cincinnati $2,544
Eglin AFB $2,544
Youngstown $1,350

Elizabeth City is #129 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month — $49,464 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Elizabeth City0 – $3,312 / month
E-1 $2,304
E-2 $2,304
E-3 $2,304
E-4 $2,304
E-5 $2,508
E-6 $2,562
E-7 $2,595
E-8 $2,637
E-9 $2,760
W-1 $2,577
W-2 $2,613
W-3 $2,670
W-4 $2,796
W-5 $2,958
O-1E $2,598
O-2E $2,655
O-3E $2,823
O-1 $2,523
O-2 $2,559
O-3 $2,667
O-4 $3,009
O-5 $3,264
O-6 $3,288
O-7 $3,312

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

Moving from Elizabeth City to San Francisco at W-1 is worth $2,895 a month — about 80 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
SHA-256
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