Rates effective
01 JAN 2026 · CONUS

Basic Allowance for Housing by duty station, pay grade and dependency status. Official DoD rates, no login, no email.

Duty station or MHA
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    Dependents
    With $1,914Without $1,719

    O-1 at Pensacola draws $1,914 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,719 without

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    Pensacola, FL
    O-1 · with dependents
    $1,914/ month
    $22,968 / year
    At O-1, this is #209 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,172 · low Youngstown $1,218
    MHA FL064 · ZIPs 32501 32502 32503 32504 32505 32506 +32 more
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,454 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,719 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Pensacola — full sheetTap a row
    PCS comparePensacola · O-1 · $1,914/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,517/mo · $30,204/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$603+$7,236/yr · like +$9,277 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
    San Francisco$5,172
    Bloomington$1,920
    Lexington$1,917
    Mobile$1,917
    Columbia$1,914
    Pensacola$1,914
    San Antonio (JBSA)$1,905
    Humboldt County$1,893
    Morehead$1,884
    Shreveport$1,875
    Youngstown$1,218

    Pensacola is #209 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 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

    Promoting to O-2 here adds $318 a month. The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.

    01

    Where you are stationed outweighs what you are paid. Moving from Pensacola to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,258 a month — about 10 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $318 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 11% here. That is a status your finance office determines, not a box you tick — and it is the single largest lever on this page that is not a change of address.

    03

    None of it is taxed. $1,914 a month of BAH takes more than $1,914 of basic pay to match, which is why comparing a civilian salary against military base pay alone understates the gap.

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    Things the rate table doesn't 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.