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.

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Dependents
With $1,533 Without $1,188

E-5 at Huntington draws $1,533 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,188 without

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Huntington, WV
E-5 · with dependents
$1,533/ month
$18,396 / year
At E-5, this is #280 of 338 stations · high San Francisco $5,127 · low Anniston $1,185
MHA WV322 · ZIPs 25504 25510 25520 25537 25541 25545 +40 more
Your grade is called ARMYSGTUSMCSgtNAVYPO2USAFSSgt
Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes $1,965 / mo gross
Without dependents here $1,188 / mo
In government quarters, no dependents $50.10 / mo partial
PCS compare Huntington · E-5 · $1,533/mo
Huntington $1,533/mo · $18,396/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.

Differences are annual and untaxed. Rate protection is not applied — a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.

Huntington — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco $5,127
China Lake $1,563
County Cost Group 730 $1,557
Sioux Falls $1,554
Johnson City $1,548
Minot AFB $1,548
Scott AFB $1,542
Champaign $1,539
County Cost Group 720 $1,536
Lexington $1,536
Sault Ste Marie $1,536
Huntington $1,533
Springfield $1,527
Moody AFB $1,524
Seymour Johnson AFB $1,521
Beaumont $1,518
County Cost Group 710 $1,515
Brownsville $1,503
Saginaw $1,503
Sumter $1,503
County Cost Group 700 $1,497
Terre Haute $1,494
Anniston $1,185

Huntington is #280 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month — $47,304 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Huntington0 – $2,217 / month
E-1 $1,404
E-2 $1,404
E-3 $1,404
E-4 $1,404
E-5 $1,533
E-6 $1,779
E-7 $1,827
E-8 $1,881
E-9 $1,959
W-1 $1,797
W-2 $1,848
W-3 $1,920
W-4 $1,977
W-5 $2,055
O-1E $1,833
O-2E $1,905
O-3E $1,989
O-1 $1,569
O-2 $1,776
O-3 $1,917
O-4 $2,073
O-5 $2,190
O-6 $2,205
O-7 $2,217

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

Moving from Huntington to San Francisco at E-5 is worth $3,594 a month — about 15 promotions at this grade. Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.

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.

Source: DoD Defense Travel Management Office, effective 01 JAN 2026. How these rates are sourced and checked.