BAH Rate Desk2026
Rates effective
01 JAN 2026 · CONUS

Basic Allowance for Housing by duty station, pay grade and dependency status. Official DoD rates, no login, no email.

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    Enlisted
    E-1E-2E-3E-4E-5E-6E-7E-8E-9
    Warrant
    W-1W-2W-3W-4W-5
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    Officer
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    Dependents
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    E-6 with dependents at Fort G. G. Meade draws $3,276 per month in 2026

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    Fort G. G. Meade, MD
    E-6 · with dependents
    $3,276/ month
    $39,312 / year
    At E-6, this is #59 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,454 · low Youngstown $1,335
    MHA MD133 · ZIPs 20701 20715 20724 20755 20763 20794 +11 more
    Your grade is calledARMYSSGUSMCSSgtNAVYPO1USAFTSgt
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$4,200 / mo gross
    Other dependency status here$2,592 without dependents
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Fort G. G. Meade — full sheetTap a row
    GradeWith dep.Without
    Enlisted
    E-1$2,739$2,178
    E-2$2,739$2,178
    E-3$2,739$2,178
    E-4$2,739$2,178
    E-5$2,901$2,436
    E-6$3,276$2,592
    E-7$3,327$2,745
    E-8$3,378$2,982
    E-9$3,507$3,087
    Warrant officer
    W-1$3,297$2,694
    W-2$3,345$2,979
    W-3$3,414$3,102
    W-4$3,543$3,282
    W-5$3,708$3,336
    Officer — prior enlisted
    O-1E$3,333$2,898
    O-2E$3,402$3,063
    O-3E$3,570$3,270
    Officer
    O-1$2,952$2,577
    O-2$3,273$2,850
    O-3$3,411$3,138
    O-4$3,759$3,321
    O-5$4,014$3,345
    O-6$4,047$3,390
    O-7$4,077$3,450
    PCS compareFort G. G. Meade · E-6 · $3,276/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,742/mo · $32,904/yr
    ▼ CUT−$534−$6,408/yr · like −$8,215 of salary

    What this rate means

    E-6 with dependents, every station0 – $5,454 / month
    San Francisco$5,454
    Westchester County$5,367
    Nantucket$5,127
    New York City$5,097
    Northern New Jersey$5,052
    Santa Clara County$4,977
    Boston$4,812
    Long Island$4,773
    Maui County$4,770
    Martha's Vineyard$4,593
    Hanscom AFB$4,479
    San Diego$4,404
    Camp Pendleton$4,398
    Kauai County$4,266
    Staten Island$4,215
    Los Angeles$4,188
    West Point$4,119
    Oakland$4,113
    Fort Monmouth$4,080
    Perth Amboy$4,071
    Florida Keys$4,056
    Ventura$4,008
    Cape Cod-Plymouth$3,999
    Trenton$3,972
    San Luis Obispo$3,948
    Honolulu County$3,912
    Seattle$3,906
    Monterey$3,867
    Hawaii County$3,837
    Marin$3,819
    Miami$3,792
    Washington$3,759
    Essex CO$3,744
    Burlington$3,741
    New Haven$3,723
    Chicago$3,702
    Portsmouth$3,690
    Vandenberg SFB$3,642
    West Palm Beach$3,606
    Portland$3,576
    Riverside$3,549
    Manchester$3,525
    County Cost Group 890$3,522
    Vallejo$3,498
    Fitchburg$3,468
    Providence$3,456
    Newport$3,447
    JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst$3,444
    Santa Fe$3,414
    Willow Grove$3,399
    Worcester$3,390
    San Bernardino$3,381
    Indian Head Navordsta$3,378
    Warrenton$3,378
    Juneau$3,372
    Boulder$3,342
    Hartford$3,330
    Atlantic City$3,291
    Fort G. G. Meade$3,276
    Everett$3,243
    Annapolis$3,228
    Sitka$3,228
    County Cost Group 880$3,204
    Quantico$3,174
    Edwards AFB$3,156
    Beale AFB$3,132
    Ann Arbor$3,078
    Cape May$3,072
    New London$3,072
    Denver$3,063
    Fort Detrick$3,063
    Tampa$3,042
    County Cost Group 870$2,997
    Philadelphia$2,979
    Sacramento$2,979
    Orlando$2,961
    Outer Banks$2,946
    Stockton$2,934
    Fort Myers Beach$2,919
    JB Lewis-McChord$2,919
    Baltimore$2,904
    JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,892
    Madison$2,889
    Ketchikan$2,886
    Kodiak Island$2,883
    Patrick SFB$2,883
    Ballston Spa$2,862
    Port Angeles$2,859
    Hampden County$2,850
    Allentown$2,841
    County Cost Group 860$2,829
    Fort Pierce$2,829
    Fresno$2,826
    Abilene$2,820
    Oxford$2,814
    Beaufort$2,811
    Dallas$2,808
    Bridgeport$2,805
    Austin$2,802
    Traverse City$2,802
    Astoria$2,796
    Minneapolis$2,781
    Great Lakes Navtracen$2,760
    Portland$2,751
    County Cost Group 850$2,745
    Whidbey Island$2,745
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,742
    Rome$2,739
    Bremerton$2,730
    Charlottesville$2,715
    Corvallis$2,715
    Dahlgren$2,715
    Atlanta$2,709
    Milwaukee$2,700
    Coastal Maine$2,697
    Reno$2,679
    Nashville$2,673
    County Cost Group 840$2,655
    St. Louis$2,655
    Savannah$2,652
    Knoxville$2,649
    Richmond$2,628
    Charleston$2,616
    Pittsburgh$2,604
    Detroit$2,583
    County Cost Group 830$2,580
    Asheville$2,571
    Elizabeth City$2,562
    Norfolk$2,559
    Brunswick$2,556
    Buffalo$2,553
    Spokane$2,553
    Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,550
    Patuxent River$2,547
    Helena$2,535
    Birmingham$2,532
    Fort Collins$2,532
    Cincinnati$2,526
    Eglin AFB$2,526
    Houston$2,517
    Rochester$2,517
    Dahlonega$2,514
    Wilmington$2,502
    Volusia County$2,496
    Dover AFB$2,493
    County Cost Group 820$2,490
    Eugene$2,481
    Grand Haven$2,481
    Phoenix$2,457
    Fairbanks$2,454
    Panama City$2,442
    Fort Stewart$2,439
    Charlotte$2,436
    Fort Carson$2,433
    Barstow$2,430
    Fort Worth$2,424
    Hampton$2,421
    Cleveland$2,418
    Grand Rapids$2,403
    Chattanooga$2,397
    Salem$2,397
    College Station$2,391
    Durham$2,391
    Ocala$2,391
    County Cost Group 810$2,388
    Syracuse$2,385
    Yakima$2,382
    Carlisle Barracks$2,376
    Omaha$2,376
    New Orleans$2,373
    Battle Creek$2,370
    Myrtle Beach$2,361
    Salt Lake City$2,358
    Gainesville$2,355
    Fargo$2,337
    Duluth$2,334
    Albuquerque$2,328
    Humboldt County$2,322
    Memphis$2,319
    Raleigh$2,319
    Eastern Shore$2,313
    County Cost Group 800$2,283
    Boise$2,277
    Lemoore NAS$2,277
    Louisville$2,274
    State College$2,274
    Eastern Panhandle$2,253
    Jacksonville$2,241
    Columbus$2,238
    Rock Island$2,238
    Pensacola$2,235
    Ogden$2,229
    Provo$2,229
    Cheyenne$2,217
    Corpus Christi$2,217
    Coos Bay$2,214
    Rapid City$2,211
    County Cost Group 790$2,208
    Des Moines$2,208
    Indianapolis$2,208
    Nellis AFB$2,208
    Bismarck$2,202
    Baton Rouge$2,193
    Fort Huachuca$2,193
    Mountain Home AFB$2,187
    Kansas City$2,175
    Toledo$2,166
    Jackson$2,163
    Fort Gordon$2,157
    Kings Bay$2,157
    El Centro$2,151
    Lexington$2,151
    Fort Bliss$2,148
    Fort Knox$2,136
    Fort Leavenworth$2,133
    County Cost Group 780$2,130
    Fort Wayne$2,130
    Johnson City$2,124
    Columbia$2,121
    Davis-Monthan AFB$2,121
    Lincoln$2,112
    Wichita Fls$2,112
    Greensboro$2,109
    Fort Campbell$2,100
    Waco$2,097
    San Antonio (JBSA)$2,094
    Greenville$2,082
    Huntsville$2,079
    Roanoke$2,079
    Mobile$2,073
    County Cost Group 770$2,067
    Tallahassee$2,061
    Bangor$2,052
    Fort Bragg$2,049
    Morehead$2,046
    Fayetteville$2,040
    Shreveport$2,028
    Sioux Falls$2,025
    Marquette$2,010
    Grand Forks$2,004
    Columbus AFB$1,998
    Scott AFB$1,998
    County Cost Group 760$1,995
    Lexington$1,995
    Lansing$1,983
    Champaign$1,980
    Minot AFB$1,980
    Fort Benning$1,977
    Bloomington$1,956
    Seymour Johnson AFB$1,950
    County Cost Group 750$1,947
    Sumter$1,947
    Camp Lejeune$1,944
    Tulsa$1,944
    Little Rock$1,941
    White Sands MR$1,929
    Whiteman AFB$1,929
    Akron$1,926
    Fort Hood$1,920
    Sault Ste Marie$1,920
    Beaumont$1,917
    Moody AFB$1,917
    Morgantown$1,917
    County Cost Group 740$1,896
    Fort Drum$1,893
    Wilkes-Barre$1,887
    Robins AFB$1,878
    Paducah$1,875
    Holloman AFB$1,869
    Topeka$1,869
    County Cost Group 730$1,863
    Brownsville$1,860
    Peoria$1,860
    Springfield$1,857
    Oklahoma City$1,854
    Wright-Patterson AFB$1,851
    Lafayette$1,845
    Sparta$1,845
    Yuma$1,845
    County Cost Group 720$1,839
    Goodfellow AFB$1,836
    Auburn$1,833
    Fort Polk$1,833
    Springfield$1,824
    Terre Haute$1,824
    Malmstrom SFB$1,821
    County Cost Group 710$1,818
    Frankfort$1,815
    Lubbock$1,812
    County Cost Group 700$1,800
    Fallon NAS$1,788
    County Cost Group 690$1,785
    Fort Riley$1,782
    Huntington$1,779
    County Cost Group 680$1,773
    China Lake$1,767
    Charleston$1,764
    County Cost Group 670$1,764
    Montgomery$1,758
    County Cost Group 660$1,752
    Saginaw$1,749
    County Cost Group 650$1,743
    Fort Rucker$1,743
    County Cost Group 640$1,734
    County Cost Group 630$1,725
    Fort Leonard Wood$1,722
    County Cost Group 620$1,719
    County Cost Group 610$1,710
    Stevens Point$1,707
    County Cost Group 600$1,704
    Laughlin AFB$1,704
    County Cost Group 590$1,692
    Wichita$1,689
    County Cost Group 580$1,680
    Erie$1,680
    Fort Chaffee$1,680
    Alexandria$1,677
    County Cost Group 570$1,668
    County Cost Group 560$1,659
    County Cost Group 550$1,650
    St Mary And Terrebonne$1,650
    County Cost Group 540$1,641
    County Cost Group 530$1,635
    County Cost Group 520$1,629
    Monroe$1,629
    County Cost Group 510$1,626
    Lake Charles$1,626
    Columbia$1,623
    Gulfport$1,620
    Cannon AFB$1,593
    Altus AFB$1,563
    Meridian$1,545
    Albany$1,539
    Hattiesburg$1,524
    Vance AFB$1,512
    Fort Sill$1,494
    Anniston$1,491
    Youngstown$1,335

    Fort G. G. Meade is #59 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month — $49,428 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Fort G. G. Meade0 – $4,077 / month
    E-1$2,739
    E-2$2,739
    E-3$2,739
    E-4$2,739
    E-5$2,901
    E-6$3,276
    E-7$3,327
    E-8$3,378
    E-9$3,507
    W-1$3,297
    W-2$3,345
    W-3$3,414
    W-4$3,543
    W-5$3,708
    O-1E$3,333
    O-2E$3,402
    O-3E$3,570
    O-1$2,952
    O-2$3,273
    O-3$3,411
    O-4$3,759
    O-5$4,014
    O-6$4,047
    O-7$4,077

    Promoting to E-7 here adds $51 a month. The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.

    01

    Where you are stationed outweighs what you are paid. Moving from Fort G. G. Meade to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $2,178 a month — about 43 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $51 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 26% here. That is a status your finance office determines, not a box you tick — and it is the single largest lever on this page that is not a change of address.

    03

    None of it is taxed. $3,276 a month of BAH takes more than $3,276 of basic pay to match, which is why comparing a civilian salary against military base pay alone understates the gap.

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    Things the rate table doesn't 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.