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Huntsville BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA AL003

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E-7 · With dependents
$2,133per month

$25,596 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #234 of 338E-7 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,735/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change−$9/mo · −0.4%2025 $2,142 → 2026 $2,133
E-7 rate selectedMHA AL003 ZIPs 35016 35175 35601 35602 35603 35609 +65
PCS compare Huntsville · E-7 · with dep. · $2,133/mo
Huntsville $2,133/mo · $25,596/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$2,142
2026$2,133

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

Huntsville — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-7 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,832 / month
Westchester County $5,832
Lincoln $2,172
Greensboro $2,163
Columbia $2,160
Roanoke $2,157
Fayetteville $2,154
Fort Wayne $2,154
Davis-Monthan AFB $2,145
Marquette $2,145
County Cost Group 770 $2,142
Bloomington $2,139
Huntsville $2,133
Greenville $2,124
Mobile $2,118
San Antonio (JBSA) $2,112
Shreveport $2,112
Fort Drum $2,103
Fort Bragg $2,094
Scott AFB $2,076
Grand Forks $2,073
County Cost Group 760 $2,070
Fort Hood $2,070
Youngstown $1,491

Huntsville is #234 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,341 a month — $52,092 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Huntsville0 – $2,640 / month
E-1 $1,668
E-2 $1,668
E-3 $1,668
E-4 $1,668
E-5 $1,797
E-6 $2,079
E-7 $2,133
E-8 $2,187
E-9 $2,286
W-1 $2,097
W-2 $2,154
W-3 $2,229
W-4 $2,307
W-5 $2,415
O-1E $2,139
O-2E $2,214
O-3E $2,325
O-1 $1,839
O-2 $2,076
O-3 $2,226
O-4 $2,445
O-5 $2,607
O-6 $2,625
O-7 $2,640

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

Moving from Huntsville to Westchester County at E-7 is worth $3,699 a month — about 69 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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