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Fort Wayne BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA IN097

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E-8 · With dependents
$2,184per month

$26,208 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #238 of 338E-8 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,800/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$108/mo · +5.2%2025 $2,076 → 2026 $2,184
E-8 rate selectedMHA IN097 ZIPs 46704 46741 46743 46745 46748 46765 +49
PCS compare Fort Wayne · E-8 · with dep. · $2,184/mo
Fort Wayne $2,184/mo · $26,208/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$2,076
2026$2,184

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

Fort Wayne — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County $6,333
Fort Huachuca $2,226
Baton Rouge $2,223
Greensboro $2,220
Shreveport $2,208
Columbia $2,202
Toledo $2,193
Fallon NAS $2,190
Lexington $2,190
Fort Bliss $2,187
Huntsville $2,187
Fort Wayne $2,184
Davis-Monthan AFB $2,178
Greenville $2,172
Mobile $2,169
Whiteman AFB $2,166
Malmstrom SFB $2,160
Seymour Johnson AFB $2,160
Scott AFB $2,157
County Cost Group 760 $2,151
Grand Forks $2,151
Fort Bragg $2,142
Anniston $1,638

Fort Wayne is #238 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month — $56,340 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Fort Wayne0 – $2,763 / month
E-1 $1,782
E-2 $1,782
E-3 $1,782
E-4 $1,782
E-5 $1,947
E-6 $2,130
E-7 $2,154
E-8 $2,184
E-9 $2,289
W-1 $2,145
W-2 $2,166
W-3 $2,208
W-4 $2,319
W-5 $2,463
O-1E $2,157
O-2E $2,199
O-3E $2,343
O-1 $1,977
O-2 $2,127
O-3 $2,205
O-4 $2,505
O-5 $2,727
O-6 $2,745
O-7 $2,763

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

Moving from Fort Wayne to Westchester County at E-8 is worth $4,149 a month — about 40 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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