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Minneapolis BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA MN159

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E-6 · With dependents
$2,781per month

$33,372 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #102 of 338E-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,565/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$153/mo · +5.8%2025 $2,628 → 2026 $2,781
E-6 rate selectedMHA MN159 ZIPs 55001 55003 55005 55010 55011 55014 +179
PCS compare Minneapolis · E-6 · with dep. · $2,781/mo
Minneapolis $2,781/mo · $33,372/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$2,628
2026$2,781

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

Minneapolis — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco $5,454
Fort Pierce $2,829
Fresno $2,826
Abilene $2,820
Oxford $2,814
Beaufort $2,811
Dallas $2,808
Bridgeport $2,805
Austin $2,802
Traverse City $2,802
Astoria $2,796
Minneapolis $2,781
Great Lakes Navtracen $2,760
Portland $2,751
County Cost Group 850 $2,745
Whidbey Island $2,745
Aberdeen Proving Grounds $2,742
Rome $2,739
Bremerton $2,730
Charlottesville $2,715
Corvallis $2,715
Dahlgren $2,715
Youngstown $1,335

Minneapolis is #102 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month — $49,428 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Minneapolis0 – $3,435 / month
E-1 $2,250
E-2 $2,250
E-3 $2,250
E-4 $2,250
E-5 $2,541
E-6 $2,781
E-7 $2,826
E-8 $2,877
E-9 $2,985
W-1 $2,796
W-2 $2,847
W-3 $2,913
W-4 $3,015
W-5 $3,144
O-1E $2,832
O-2E $2,901
O-3E $3,033
O-1 $2,577
O-2 $2,778
O-3 $2,910
O-4 $3,183
O-5 $3,384
O-6 $3,411
O-7 $3,435

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

Moving from Minneapolis to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $2,673 a month — about 59 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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