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Grand Forks BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA ND190

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O-2 · With dependents
$2,001per month

$24,012 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #240 of 338O-2 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,565/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$186/mo · +10.2%2025 $1,815 → 2026 $2,001
O-2 rate selectedMHA ND190 ZIPs 58201 58202 58203 58204 58205 58206 +13
PCS compare Grand Forks · O-2 · with dep. · $2,001/mo
Grand Forks $2,001/mo · $24,012/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$1,815
2026$2,001

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

Grand Forks — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco $5,451
Mobile $2,070
County Cost Group 770 $2,064
Tallahassee $2,058
Bangor $2,049
Fort Bragg $2,046
Morehead $2,043
Fayetteville $2,037
Shreveport $2,025
Sioux Falls $2,022
Marquette $2,007
Grand Forks $2,001
Scott AFB $1,995
Columbus AFB $1,992
County Cost Group 760 $1,992
Lexington $1,992
Lansing $1,980
Champaign $1,977
Minot AFB $1,977
Fort Benning $1,974
Bloomington $1,953
Seymour Johnson AFB $1,947
Youngstown $1,332

Grand Forks is #240 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 Grand Forks0 – $2,718 / month
E-1 $1,518
E-2 $1,518
E-3 $1,518
E-4 $1,518
E-5 $1,731
E-6 $2,004
E-7 $2,073
E-8 $2,151
E-9 $2,277
W-1 $2,022
W-2 $2,106
W-3 $2,202
W-4 $2,307
W-5 $2,439
O-1E $2,085
O-2E $2,184
O-3E $2,325
O-1 $1,770
O-2 $2,001
O-3 $2,199
O-4 $2,478
O-5 $2,682
O-6 $2,703
O-7 $2,718

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

Moving from Grand Forks to San Francisco at O-2 is worth $3,450 a month — about 17 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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