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
    Try Fort Liberty, Cavazos, Moore or a ZIP — old and unofficial names resolve.
    Or type your rank
    Dependents
    With $2,943Without $2,364

    W-4 at Humboldt County draws $2,943 per month with dependents in 2026, $2,364 without

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    Humboldt County, CA
    W-4 · with dependents
    $2,943/ month
    $35,316 / year
    At W-4, this is #121 of 338 stations loaded · high Westchester County $6,963 · low Stevens Point $1,779
    MHA CA042 · ZIPs 95501 95502 95503 95511 95514 95518 +32 more
    Your grade is calledARMYCW4USMCCWO4NAVYCWO4
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$3,773 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$2,364 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Humboldt County — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareHumboldt County · W-4 · $2,943/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,198/mo · $38,376/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$255+$3,060/yr · like +$3,923 of salary

    What this rate means

    W-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,963 / month
    Westchester County$6,963
    Patrick SFB$2,976
    Rome$2,958
    Detroit$2,949
    County Cost Group 830$2,946
    Humboldt County$2,943
    Coastal Maine$2,937
    Reno$2,922
    Spokane$2,922
    Abilene$2,919
    Stevens Point$1,779

    Humboldt County is #121 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,184 a month — $62,208 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Humboldt County0 – $3,336 / month
    E-1$1,764
    E-2$1,764
    E-3$1,764
    E-4$1,764
    E-5$1,827
    E-6$2,322
    E-7$2,511
    E-8$2,715
    E-9$2,916
    W-1$2,343
    W-2$2,595
    W-3$2,844
    W-4$2,943
    W-5$3,063
    O-1E$2,547
    O-2E$2,808
    O-3E$2,961
    O-1$1,893
    O-2$2,316
    O-3$2,838
    O-4$3,099
    O-5$3,288
    O-6$3,312
    O-7$3,336

    Promoting to W-5 here adds $120 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 Humboldt County to Westchester County at W-4 is worth $4,020 a month — about 34 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $120 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 24% 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. $2,943 a month of BAH takes more than $2,943 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.