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.

Duty station or MHA
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    Dependents
    With $2,169Without $1,842

    O-4 at Fort Riley draws $2,169 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,842 without

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    Fort Riley, KS
    O-4 · with dependents
    $2,169/ month
    $26,028 / year
    At O-4, this is #308 of 338 stations loaded · high Westchester County $7,470 · low Youngstown $1,809
    MHA KS100 · ZIPs 66401 66407 66422 66423 66426 66431 +40 more
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,781 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,842 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
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    PCS compareFort Riley · O-4 · $2,169/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,396/mo · $40,752/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$1,227+$14,724/yr · like +$18,877 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
    Westchester County$7,470
    Oklahoma City$2,184
    Frankfort$2,178
    County Cost Group 660$2,175
    Holloman AFB$2,175
    Fort Riley$2,169
    County Cost Group 650$2,163
    Vance AFB$2,163
    Hattiesburg$2,160
    County Cost Group 640$2,154
    Youngstown$1,809

    Fort Riley is #308 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month — $67,932 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Fort Riley0 – $2,352 / month
    E-1$1,272
    E-2$1,272
    E-3$1,272
    E-4$1,272
    E-5$1,314
    E-6$1,782
    E-7$1,845
    E-8$1,911
    E-9$2,013
    W-1$1,803
    W-2$1,872
    W-3$1,956
    W-4$2,037
    W-5$2,139
    O-1E$1,854
    O-2E$1,941
    O-3E$2,052
    O-1$1,377
    O-2$1,779
    O-3$1,953
    O-4$2,169
    O-5$2,325
    O-6$2,340
    O-7$2,352

    Promoting to O-5 here adds $156 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 Riley to Westchester County at O-4 is worth $5,301 a month — about 34 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $156 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 18% 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. $2,169 a month of BAH takes more than $2,169 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.