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 $1,635Without $1,488

    W-1 at Gulfport draws $1,635 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,488 without

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    Gulfport, MS
    W-1 · with dependents
    $1,635/ month
    $19,620 / year
    At W-1, this is #329 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,472 · low Youngstown $1,350
    MHA MS168 · ZIPs 39501 39502 39503 39505 39506 39507 +25 more
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,096 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,488 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
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    PCS compareGulfport · W-1 · $1,635/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,760/mo · $33,120/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$1,125+$13,500/yr · like +$17,308 of salary

    What this rate means

    W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
    San Francisco$5,472
    County Cost Group 520$1,647
    Columbia$1,644
    County Cost Group 510$1,644
    Lake Charles$1,644
    Gulfport$1,635
    Cannon AFB$1,611
    Altus AFB$1,581
    Meridian$1,563
    Albany$1,557
    Youngstown$1,350

    Gulfport is #329 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 Gulfport0 – $2,658 / month
    E-1$1,509
    E-2$1,509
    E-3$1,509
    E-4$1,509
    E-5$1,602
    E-6$1,620
    E-7$1,770
    E-8$1,938
    E-9$2,139
    W-1$1,635
    W-2$1,836
    W-3$2,046
    W-4$2,175
    W-5$2,331
    O-1E$1,800
    O-2E$2,016
    O-3E$2,199
    O-1$1,614
    O-2$1,617
    O-3$2,040
    O-4$2,379
    O-5$2,625
    O-6$2,643
    O-7$2,658

    Promoting to W-2 here adds $201 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 Gulfport to San Francisco at W-1 is worth $3,837 a month — about 19 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $201 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 10% 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. $1,635 a month of BAH takes more than $1,635 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.