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Minot AFB BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA ND191

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O-1 · With dependents
$1,605per month

$19,260 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #271 of 338O-1 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,058/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$90/mo · +5.9%2025 $1,515 → 2026 $1,605
O-1 rate selectedMHA ND191 ZIPs 58701 58702 58703 58704 58705 58707 +15
PCS compare Minot AFB · O-1 · with dep. · $1,605/mo
Minot AFB $1,605/mo · $19,260/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$1,515
2026$1,605

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

Minot AFB — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco $5,172
County Cost Group 740 $1,632
Holloman AFB $1,632
Akron $1,629
Fallon NAS $1,629
Johnson City $1,623
Lafayette $1,623
Goodfellow AFB $1,617
Sioux Falls $1,617
Gulfport $1,614
Peoria $1,614
Minot AFB $1,605
County Cost Group 730 $1,602
Fort Rucker $1,602
Scott AFB $1,602
Champaign $1,599
China Lake $1,596
Lexington $1,596
Sault Ste Marie $1,590
County Cost Group 720 $1,578
Moody AFB $1,578
Seymour Johnson AFB $1,578
Youngstown $1,218

Minot AFB is #271 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month — $47,448 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Minot AFB0 – $2,541 / month
E-1 $1,428
E-2 $1,428
E-3 $1,428
E-4 $1,428
E-5 $1,548
E-6 $1,980
E-7 $2,052
E-8 $2,127
E-9 $2,229
W-1 $2,001
W-2 $2,082
W-3 $2,178
W-4 $2,247
W-5 $2,343
O-1E $2,064
O-2E $2,163
O-3E $2,262
O-1 $1,605
O-2 $1,977
O-3 $2,175
O-4 $2,367
O-5 $2,508
O-6 $2,526
O-7 $2,541

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

Moving from Minot AFB to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,567 a month — about 10 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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