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Honolulu County BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA HI408

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E-6 · With dependents
$3,912per month

$46,944 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #26 of 338E-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$5,015/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$174/mo · +4.7%2025 $3,738 → 2026 $3,912
E-6 rate selectedMHA HI408 ZIPs 96701 96706 96707 96709 96712 96717 +63
PCS compare Honolulu County · E-6 · with dep. · $3,912/mo
Honolulu County $3,912/mo · $46,944/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$3,738
2026$3,912

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

MHA

One MHA covers the whole island — Pearl Harbor, Schofield, Kaneohe Bay and Hickam all draw the same rate.

Honolulu County — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco $5,454
Los Angeles $4,188
West Point $4,119
Oakland $4,113
Fort Monmouth $4,080
Perth Amboy $4,071
Florida Keys $4,056
Ventura $4,008
Cape Cod-Plymouth $3,999
Trenton $3,972
San Luis Obispo $3,948
Honolulu County $3,912
Seattle $3,906
Monterey $3,867
Hawaii County $3,837
Marin $3,819
Miami $3,792
Washington $3,759
Essex CO $3,744
Burlington $3,741
New Haven $3,723
Chicago $3,702
Youngstown $1,335

Honolulu County is #26 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 Honolulu County0 – $5,040 / month
E-1 $3,333
E-2 $3,333
E-3 $3,333
E-4 $3,333
E-5 $3,663
E-6 $3,912
E-7 $4,098
E-8 $4,302
E-9 $4,518
W-1 $3,930
W-2 $4,182
W-3 $4,434
W-4 $4,551
W-5 $4,692
O-1E $4,137
O-2E $4,398
O-3E $4,572
O-1 $3,702
O-2 $3,909
O-3 $4,428
O-4 $4,737
O-5 $4,959
O-6 $5,001
O-7 $5,040

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

Moving from Honolulu County to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $1,542 a month — about 8 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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