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Gainesville BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA FL057

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E-6 · With dependents
$2,355per month

$28,260 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #174 of 338E-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,019/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$72/mo · +3.2%2025 $2,283 → 2026 $2,355
E-6 rate selectedMHA FL057 ZIPs 32601 32602 32603 32604 32605 32606 +25
PCS compare Gainesville · E-6 · with dep. · $2,355/mo
Gainesville $2,355/mo · $28,260/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$2,283
2026$2,355

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

Gainesville — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco $5,454
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
Youngstown $1,335

Gainesville is #174 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 Gainesville0 – $3,324 / month
E-1 $1,986
E-2 $1,986
E-3 $1,986
E-4 $1,986
E-5 $2,040
E-6 $2,355
E-7 $2,478
E-8 $2,613
E-9 $2,793
W-1 $2,373
W-2 $2,532
W-3 $2,700
W-4 $2,826
W-5 $2,982
O-1E $2,502
O-2E $2,676
O-3E $2,850
O-1 $2,085
O-2 $2,352
O-3 $2,697
O-4 $3,033
O-5 $3,276
O-6 $3,300
O-7 $3,324

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

Moving from Gainesville to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $3,099 a month — about 25 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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