BAH Rate Desk2026
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
    Try Fort Liberty, Cavazos, Moore or a ZIP — old and unofficial names resolve.
    Or type your rank
    Enlisted
    E-1E-2E-3E-4E-5E-6E-7E-8E-9
    Warrant
    W-1W-2W-3W-4W-5
    Prior enl.
    O-1EO-2EO-3E
    Officer
    O-1O-2O-3O-4O-5O-6O-7
    Dependents
    WithWithout

    W-3 without dependents at Marquette draws $1,917 per month in 2026

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    Marquette, MI
    W-3 · without dependents
    $1,917/ month
    $23,004 / year
    At W-3, this is #236 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,301 · low Youngstown $1,341
    MHA MI143 · ZIPs 49808 49814 49819 49833 49841 49849 +7 more
    Your grade is calledARMYCW3USMCCWO3NAVYCWO3
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,458 / mo gross
    Other dependency status here$2,391 with dependents
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Marquette — full sheetTap a row
    GradeWith dep.Without
    Enlisted
    E-1$1,626$1,221
    E-2$1,626$1,221
    E-3$1,626$1,221
    E-4$1,626$1,221
    E-5$1,821$1,365
    E-6$2,010$1,503
    E-7$2,145$1,632
    E-8$2,295$1,863
    E-9$2,457$1,908
    Warrant officer
    W-1$2,025$1,566
    W-2$2,205$1,860
    W-3$2,391$1,917
    W-4$2,481$2,034
    W-5$2,598$2,178
    Officer — prior enlisted
    O-1E$2,169$1,818
    O-2E$2,361$1,899
    O-3E$2,502$1,998
    Officer
    O-1$1,851$1,428
    O-2$2,007$1,758
    O-3$2,385$1,935
    O-4$2,634$2,148
    O-5$2,811$2,232
    O-6$2,832$2,370
    O-7$2,850$2,409
    PCS compareMarquette · W-3 · $1,917/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,619/mo · $31,428/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$702+$8,424/yr · like +$10,800 of salary

    What this rate means

    W-3 without dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,301 / month
    San Francisco$5,301
    Bismarck$1,923
    County Cost Group 770$1,920
    Fayetteville$1,920
    Mountain Home AFB$1,920
    Marquette$1,917
    Fort Knox$1,911
    Fort Drum$1,899
    Lansing$1,899
    Little Rock$1,893
    Youngstown$1,341

    Marquette is #236 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,960 a month — $47,520 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Marquette0 – $2,409 / month
    E-1$1,221
    E-2$1,221
    E-3$1,221
    E-4$1,221
    E-5$1,365
    E-6$1,503
    E-7$1,632
    E-8$1,863
    E-9$1,908
    W-1$1,566
    W-2$1,860
    W-3$1,917
    W-4$2,034
    W-5$2,178
    O-1E$1,818
    O-2E$1,899
    O-3E$1,998
    O-1$1,428
    O-2$1,758
    O-3$1,935
    O-4$2,148
    O-5$2,232
    O-6$2,370
    O-7$2,409

    Promoting to W-4 here adds $117 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 Marquette to San Francisco at W-3 is worth $3,384 a month — about 29 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $117 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 25% 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. $1,917 a month of BAH takes more than $1,917 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.