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Fort Drum BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA NY225

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O-6 · With dependents
$2,805per month

$33,660 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #218 of 338O-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,596/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$132/mo · +4.9%2025 $2,673 → 2026 $2,805
O-6 rate selectedMHA NY225 ZIPs 13305 13312 13325 13327 13343 13345 +52
PCS compare Fort Drum · O-6 · with dep. · $2,805/mo
Fort Drum $2,805/mo · $33,660/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$2,673
2026$2,805

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

Fort Drum — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
Westchester County $8,136
Lansing $2,841
Laughlin AFB $2,841
Bangor $2,835
Marquette $2,832
Toledo $2,832
County Cost Group 780 $2,829
Duluth $2,829
Fort Worth $2,814
Fort Gordon $2,808
Roanoke $2,808
Fort Drum $2,805
Shreveport $2,799
Nellis AFB $2,796
Phoenix $2,796
Tulsa $2,787
Boise $2,784
Baton Rouge $2,769
Fort Hood $2,769
Fort Rucker $2,760
Jacksonville $2,757
Raleigh $2,757
Youngstown $1,839

Fort Drum is #218 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month — $75,564 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Fort Drum0 – $2,823 / month
E-1 $1,569
E-2 $1,569
E-3 $1,569
E-4 $1,569
E-5 $1,665
E-6 $1,893
E-7 $2,103
E-8 $2,331
E-9 $2,526
W-1 $1,914
W-2 $2,196
W-3 $2,478
W-4 $2,544
W-5 $2,631
O-1E $2,145
O-2E $2,436
O-3E $2,559
O-1 $1,701
O-2 $1,890
O-3 $2,469
O-4 $2,655
O-5 $2,784
O-6 $2,805
O-7 $2,823

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

Moving from Fort Drum to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $5,331 a month — about 296 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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