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 $1,803Without $1,353

    W-1 at Fort Riley draws $1,803 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,353 without

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    Fort Riley, KS
    W-1 · with dependents
    $1,803/ month
    $21,636 / year
    At W-1, this is #293 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,472 · low Youngstown $1,350
    MHA KS100 · ZIPs 66401 66407 66422 66423 66426 66431 +40 more
    Your grade is calledARMYWO1USMCWONAVYWO1
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,312 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,353 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Fort Riley — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareFort Riley · W-1 · $1,803/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,760/mo · $33,120/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$957+$11,484/yr · like +$14,723 of salary

    What this rate means

    W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
    San Francisco$5,472
    Lubbock$1,830
    County Cost Group 700$1,818
    Fallon NAS$1,809
    County Cost Group 690$1,803
    Fort Riley$1,803
    Huntington$1,797
    County Cost Group 680$1,791
    Charleston$1,785
    China Lake$1,785
    Youngstown$1,350

    Fort Riley is #293 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 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 W-2 here adds $69 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 San Francisco at W-1 is worth $3,669 a month — about 53 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $69 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 33% 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. $1,803 a month of BAH takes more than $1,803 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.