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Fort Bragg BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA NC182

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O-1 · With dependents
$1,842per month

$22,104 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #224 of 338O-1 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,362/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$24/mo · +1.3%2025 $1,818 → 2026 $1,842
O-1 rate selectedMHA NC182 ZIPs 27237 27242 27259 27281 27325 27330 +64
PCS compare Fort Bragg · O-1 · with dep. · $1,842/mo
Fort Bragg $1,842/mo · $22,104/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$1,818
2026$1,842

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

MHA

Renamed back from Fort Liberty on 07 MAR 2025. Orders cut in 2023–24 may still say Liberty.

Fort Bragg — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco $5,172
Little Rock $1,869
County Cost Group 780 $1,860
Fort Leavenworth $1,860
Tallahassee $1,860
Fort Bliss $1,857
Fort Campbell $1,857
State College $1,854
Greensboro $1,851
Marquette $1,851
Corpus Christi $1,845
Fort Bragg $1,842
Coos Bay $1,839
Huntsville $1,839
College Station $1,836
Lansing $1,836
Lincoln $1,833
Des Moines $1,830
Fayetteville $1,821
Robins AFB $1,818
Waco $1,803
County Cost Group 770 $1,797
Youngstown $1,218

Fort Bragg is #224 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month — $47,448 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Fort Bragg0 – $2,646 / month
E-1 $1,722
E-2 $1,722
E-3 $1,722
E-4 $1,722
E-5 $1,806
E-6 $2,049
E-7 $2,094
E-8 $2,142
E-9 $2,244
W-1 $2,067
W-2 $2,112
W-3 $2,178
W-4 $2,271
W-5 $2,391
O-1E $2,097
O-2E $2,166
O-3E $2,289
O-1 $1,842
O-2 $2,046
O-3 $2,175
O-4 $2,427
O-5 $2,610
O-6 $2,628
O-7 $2,646

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

Moving from Fort Bragg to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,330 a month — about 16 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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