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Patuxent River BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA MD135

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E-6 · With dependents
$2,547per month

$30,564 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #134 of 338E-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,265/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$69/mo · +2.8%2025 $2,478 → 2026 $2,547
E-6 rate selectedMHA MD135 ZIPs 20606 20608 20609 20610 20615 20618 +36
PCS compare Patuxent River · E-6 · with dep. · $2,547/mo
Patuxent River $2,547/mo · $30,564/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$2,478
2026$2,547

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

Patuxent River — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco $5,454
Pittsburgh $2,604
Detroit $2,583
County Cost Group 830 $2,580
Asheville $2,571
Elizabeth City $2,562
Norfolk $2,559
Brunswick $2,556
Buffalo $2,553
Spokane $2,553
Twenty Nine Palms MCB $2,550
Patuxent River $2,547
Helena $2,535
Birmingham $2,532
Fort Collins $2,532
Cincinnati $2,526
Eglin AFB $2,526
Houston $2,517
Rochester $2,517
Dahlonega $2,514
Wilmington $2,502
Volusia County $2,496
Youngstown $1,335

Patuxent River is #134 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 Patuxent River0 – $3,348 / month
E-1 $2,268
E-2 $2,268
E-3 $2,268
E-4 $2,268
E-5 $2,406
E-6 $2,547
E-7 $2,625
E-8 $2,712
E-9 $2,856
W-1 $2,562
W-2 $2,661
W-3 $2,772
W-4 $2,886
W-5 $3,033
O-1E $2,637
O-2E $2,754
O-3E $2,910
O-1 $2,433
O-2 $2,544
O-3 $2,769
O-4 $3,075
O-5 $3,300
O-6 $3,327
O-7 $3,348

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

Moving from Patuxent River to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $2,907 a month — about 37 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.

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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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