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
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    Dependents
    With $2,886Without $2,163

    W-1 at Kodiak Island draws $2,886 per month with dependents in 2026, $2,163 without

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    Kodiak Island, AK
    W-1 · with dependents
    $2,886/ month
    $34,632 / year
    At W-1, this is #86 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,472 · low Youngstown $1,350
    MHA AK403 · ZIPs 99546 99547 99548 99549 99550 99553 +29 more
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$3,700 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$2,163 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Kodiak Island — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareKodiak Island · W-1 · $2,886/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,760/mo · $33,120/yr
    ▼ CUT$126−$1,512/yr · like −$1,938 of salary

    What this rate means

    W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
    San Francisco$5,472
    Madison$2,910
    Patrick SFB$2,904
    JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,895
    Ketchikan$2,889
    Kodiak Island$2,886
    Ballston Spa$2,880
    Port Angeles$2,880
    Hampden County$2,874
    Allentown$2,862
    Youngstown$1,350

    Kodiak Island is #86 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month — $49,464 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Kodiak Island0 – $3,891 / month
    E-1$2,436
    E-2$2,436
    E-3$2,436
    E-4$2,436
    E-5$2,865
    E-6$2,883
    E-7$2,970
    E-8$3,096
    E-9$3,282
    W-1$2,886
    W-2$3,021
    W-3$3,177
    W-4$3,321
    W-5$3,498
    O-1E$2,991
    O-2E$3,153
    O-3E$3,348
    O-1$2,877
    O-2$2,880
    O-3$3,174
    O-4$3,555
    O-5$3,831
    O-6$3,861
    O-7$3,891

    Promoting to W-2 here adds $135 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 Kodiak Island to San Francisco at W-1 is worth $2,586 a month — about 19 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $135 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 33% 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. $2,886 a month of BAH takes more than $2,886 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.