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Kauai County BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA HI414

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E-8 · With dependents
$4,566per month

$54,792 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #15 of 338E-8 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$5,854/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$426/mo · +10.3%2025 $4,140 → 2026 $4,566
E-8 rate selectedMHA HI414 ZIPs 96703 96705 96714 96715 96716 96722 +11
PCS compare Kauai County · E-8 · with dep. · $4,566/mo
Kauai County $4,566/mo · $54,792/yr
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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$4,140
2026$4,566

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

Kauai County — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County $6,333
Nantucket $5,364
Santa Clara County $5,145
Northern New Jersey $5,082
Boston $5,079
Long Island $4,992
Martha's Vineyard $4,923
Hanscom AFB $4,698
Florida Keys $4,677
Monterey $4,599
Camp Pendleton $4,596
Kauai County $4,566
San Diego $4,488
Staten Island $4,473
Los Angeles $4,443
Essex CO $4,344
Cape Cod-Plymouth $4,317
West Point $4,317
Honolulu County $4,302
Oakland $4,299
Miami $4,281
Portsmouth $4,278
Anniston $1,638

Kauai County is #15 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month — $56,340 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Kauai County0 – $5,991 / month
E-1 $3,588
E-2 $3,588
E-3 $3,588
E-4 $3,588
E-5 $3,798
E-6 $4,266
E-7 $4,410
E-8 $4,566
E-9 $4,863
W-1 $4,287
W-2 $4,476
W-3 $4,668
W-4 $4,938
W-5 $5,262
O-1E $4,440
O-2E $4,638
O-3E $4,986
O-1 $3,861
O-2 $4,260
O-3 $4,662
O-4 $5,376
O-5 $5,892
O-6 $5,943
O-7 $5,991

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

Moving from Kauai County to Westchester County at E-8 is worth $1,767 a month — about 6 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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