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Perth Amboy BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA NJ201

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E-8 · With dependents
$4,200per month

$50,400 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #28 of 338E-8 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$5,385/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$189/mo · +4.7%2025 $4,011 → 2026 $4,200
E-8 rate selectedMHA NJ201 ZIPs 07001 07008 07059 07063 07064 07067 +70
PCS compare Perth Amboy · E-8 · with dep. · $4,200/mo
Perth Amboy $4,200/mo · $50,400/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$4,011
2026$4,200

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

Perth Amboy — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County $6,333
Los Angeles $4,443
Essex CO $4,344
Cape Cod-Plymouth $4,317
West Point $4,317
Honolulu County $4,302
Oakland $4,299
Miami $4,281
Portsmouth $4,278
Fort Monmouth $4,272
Trenton $4,269
Perth Amboy $4,200
Ventura $4,161
San Luis Obispo $4,152
Seattle $4,143
Portland $4,098
Burlington $4,092
Manchester $4,065
Marin $4,065
Newport $3,972
Washington $3,957
Fitchburg $3,918
Anniston $1,638

Perth Amboy is #28 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month — $56,340 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Perth Amboy0 – $5,007 / month
E-1 $3,339
E-2 $3,339
E-3 $3,339
E-4 $3,339
E-5 $3,393
E-6 $4,071
E-7 $4,134
E-8 $4,200
E-9 $4,350
W-1 $4,092
W-2 $4,161
W-3 $4,242
W-4 $4,392
W-5 $4,578
O-1E $4,143
O-2E $4,227
O-3E $4,422
O-1 $3,477
O-2 $4,065
O-3 $4,239
O-4 $4,638
O-5 $4,926
O-6 $4,968
O-7 $5,007

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

Moving from Perth Amboy to Westchester County at E-8 is worth $2,133 a month — about 14 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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