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Panama City BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA FL063

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O-2 · With dependents
$2,439per month

$29,268 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #151 of 338O-2 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,127/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$12/mo · +0.5%2025 $2,427 → 2026 $2,439
O-2 rate selectedMHA FL063 ZIPs 32401 32402 32403 32404 32405 32406 +13
PCS compare Panama City · O-2 · with dep. · $2,439/mo
Panama City $2,439/mo · $29,268/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$2,427
2026$2,439

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

Panama City — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco $5,451
Rochester $2,514
Dahlonega $2,511
Wilmington $2,496
Volusia County $2,493
Dover AFB $2,490
County Cost Group 820 $2,487
Eugene $2,478
Grand Haven $2,478
Phoenix $2,454
Fairbanks $2,451
Panama City $2,439
Fort Stewart $2,436
Charlotte $2,433
Fort Carson $2,430
Barstow $2,427
Fort Worth $2,421
Hampton $2,418
Cleveland $2,415
Grand Rapids $2,400
Chattanooga $2,394
Salem $2,394
Youngstown $1,332

Panama City is #151 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 Panama City0 – $3,105 / month
E-1 $2,058
E-2 $2,058
E-3 $2,058
E-4 $2,058
E-5 $2,163
E-6 $2,442
E-7 $2,538
E-8 $2,643
E-9 $2,766
W-1 $2,460
W-2 $2,580
W-3 $2,712
W-4 $2,787
W-5 $2,886
O-1E $2,556
O-2E $2,691
O-3E $2,802
O-1 $2,202
O-2 $2,439
O-3 $2,709
O-4 $2,913
O-5 $3,060
O-6 $3,084
O-7 $3,105

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

Moving from Panama City to San Francisco at O-2 is worth $3,012 a month — about 11 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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