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Milwaukee BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA WI317

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O-6 · With dependents
$3,861per month

$46,332 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #75 of 338O-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$4,950/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$207/mo · +5.7%2025 $3,654 → 2026 $3,861
O-6 rate selectedMHA WI317 ZIPs 53005 53007 53008 53018 53029 53045 +87
PCS compare Milwaukee · O-6 · with dep. · $3,861/mo
Milwaukee $3,861/mo · $46,332/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$3,654
2026$3,861

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

Milwaukee — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
Westchester County $8,136
Hampden County $4,011
Cape May $4,002
Everett $3,969
Willow Grove $3,969
Vallejo $3,960
New London $3,939
Brunswick $3,927
County Cost Group 870 $3,915
Edwards AFB $3,870
Kodiak Island $3,861
Milwaukee $3,861
Fort Detrick $3,837
San Bernardino $3,828
Ballston Spa $3,807
Corvallis $3,801
Sitka $3,798
Philadelphia $3,789
Asheville $3,753
Baltimore $3,741
Portland $3,732
Outer Banks $3,726
Youngstown $1,839

Milwaukee is #75 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month — $75,564 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Milwaukee0 – $3,888 / month
E-1 $2,367
E-2 $2,367
E-3 $2,367
E-4 $2,367
E-5 $2,607
E-6 $2,700
E-7 $2,874
E-8 $3,072
E-9 $3,300
W-1 $2,715
W-2 $2,955
W-3 $3,198
W-4 $3,336
W-5 $3,507
O-1E $2,910
O-2E $3,162
O-3E $3,363
O-1 $2,625
O-2 $2,697
O-3 $3,189
O-4 $3,564
O-5 $3,831
O-6 $3,861
O-7 $3,888

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

Moving from Milwaukee to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $4,275 a month — about 158 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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