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Indian Head Navordsta BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA MD134

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E-5 · With dependents
$3,249per month

$38,988 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #40 of 338E-5 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$4,165/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$123/mo · +3.9%2025 $3,126 → 2026 $3,249
E-5 rate selectedMHA MD134 ZIPs 20601 20602 20603 20604 20607 20611 +19
PCS compare Indian Head Navordsta · E-5 · with dep. · $3,249/mo
Indian Head Navordsta $3,249/mo · $38,988/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$3,126
2026$3,249

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

Indian Head Navordsta — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco $5,127
West Palm Beach $3,423
Perth Amboy $3,393
Vallejo $3,369
Juneau $3,354
Riverside $3,351
Vandenberg SFB $3,333
Portsmouth $3,321
Marin $3,303
San Bernardino $3,288
Portland $3,252
Indian Head Navordsta $3,249
Sitka $3,210
San Luis Obispo $3,198
Providence $3,195
Manchester $3,177
County Cost Group 890 $3,156
Seattle $3,135
Washington $3,132
Burlington $3,120
Fitchburg $3,093
New Haven $3,069
Anniston $1,185

Indian Head Navordsta is #40 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 Indian Head Navordsta0 – $4,344 / month
E-1 $3,192
E-2 $3,192
E-3 $3,192
E-4 $3,192
E-5 $3,249
E-6 $3,378
E-7 $3,483
E-8 $3,597
E-9 $3,768
W-1 $3,393
W-2 $3,528
W-3 $3,672
W-4 $3,804
W-5 $3,969
O-1E $3,501
O-2E $3,648
O-3E $3,831
O-1 $3,273
O-2 $3,375
O-3 $3,669
O-4 $4,020
O-5 $4,278
O-6 $4,314
O-7 $4,344

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

Moving from Indian Head Navordsta to San Francisco at E-5 is worth $1,878 a month — about 15 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.

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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
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