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Nashville BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA TN269

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O-1E · With dependents
$2,718per month

$32,616 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #122 of 338O-1E · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,485/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$33/mo · +1.2%2025 $2,685 → 2026 $2,718
O-1E rate selectedMHA TN269 ZIPs 37011 37013 37014 37024 37027 37037 +72
PCS compare Nashville · O-1E · with dep. · $2,718/mo
Nashville $2,718/mo · $32,616/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$2,685
2026$2,718

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

Nashville — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-1E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,931 / month
Westchester County $5,931
Minneapolis $2,832
Rome $2,796
Corvallis $2,775
Coastal Maine $2,769
Dahlgren $2,766
County Cost Group 840 $2,760
Knoxville $2,760
Dover AFB $2,736
Atlanta $2,733
Reno $2,724
Nashville $2,718
St. Louis $2,694
Savannah $2,688
County Cost Group 830 $2,685
Asheville $2,682
Richmond $2,682
Spokane $2,679
Detroit $2,664
Twenty Nine Palms MCB $2,664
Charleston $2,655
Fort Collins $2,649
Youngstown $1,521

Nashville is #122 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,410 a month — $52,920 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Nashville0 – $3,264 / month
E-1 $2,112
E-2 $2,112
E-3 $2,112
E-4 $2,112
E-5 $2,268
E-6 $2,673
E-7 $2,712
E-8 $2,754
E-9 $2,853
W-1 $2,694
W-2 $2,730
W-3 $2,787
W-4 $2,877
W-5 $2,997
O-1E $2,718
O-2E $2,772
O-3E $2,898
O-1 $2,322
O-2 $2,670
O-3 $2,784
O-4 $3,033
O-5 $3,219
O-6 $3,243
O-7 $3,264

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

Moving from Nashville to Westchester County at O-1E is worth $3,213 a month — about 60 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
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