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Pensacola BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA FL064

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E-5 · With dependents
$1,863per month

$22,356 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #210 of 338E-5 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,388/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$30/mo · +1.6%2025 $1,833 → 2026 $1,863
E-5 rate selectedMHA FL064 ZIPs 32501 32502 32503 32504 32505 32506 +32
PCS compare Pensacola · E-5 · with dep. · $1,863/mo
Pensacola $1,863/mo · $22,356/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$1,833
2026$1,863

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

Pensacola — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco $5,127
Fort Gordon $1,890
Helena $1,887
Mobile $1,887
Columbia $1,878
Baton Rouge $1,875
Columbus $1,875
Indianapolis $1,875
Lexington $1,875
Abilene $1,872
San Antonio (JBSA) $1,869
Pensacola $1,863
Morehead $1,851
Little Rock $1,848
Shreveport $1,845
Humboldt County $1,827
Tallahassee $1,824
Marquette $1,821
County Cost Group 780 $1,815
Fort Campbell $1,815
Fort Leavenworth $1,815
Fort Bliss $1,809
Anniston $1,185

Pensacola is #210 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month — $47,304 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Pensacola0 – $2,646 / month
E-1 $1,794
E-2 $1,794
E-3 $1,794
E-4 $1,794
E-5 $1,863
E-6 $2,235
E-7 $2,256
E-8 $2,265
E-9 $2,304
W-1 $2,253
W-2 $2,262
W-3 $2,274
W-4 $2,325
W-5 $2,427
O-1E $2,259
O-2E $2,268
O-3E $2,340
O-1 $1,914
O-2 $2,232
O-3 $2,271
O-4 $2,457
O-5 $2,610
O-6 $2,631
O-7 $2,646

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

Moving from Pensacola to San Francisco at E-5 is worth $3,264 a month — about 9 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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