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Riverside BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA CA041

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O-3 · With dependents
$3,705per month

$44,460 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #51 of 338O-3 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$4,750/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$66/mo · +1.8%2025 $3,639 → 2026 $3,705
O-3 rate selectedMHA CA041 ZIPs 91752 92201 92202 92203 92210 92211 +85
PCS compare Riverside · O-3 · with dep. · $3,705/mo
Riverside $3,705/mo · $44,460/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$3,639
2026$3,705

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

Riverside — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,633 / month
Westchester County $6,633
Hawaii County $3,945
New Haven $3,843
County Cost Group 890 $3,828
Vandenberg SFB $3,780
Brunswick $3,762
Hartford $3,759
Worcester $3,756
Chicago $3,738
Boulder $3,711
Santa Fe $3,711
Riverside $3,705
Indian Head Navordsta $3,669
Warrenton $3,666
Atlantic City $3,624
Juneau $3,594
Everett $3,567
JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst $3,552
Vallejo $3,537
County Cost Group 880 $3,489
Sitka $3,462
Austin $3,447
Anniston $1,686

Riverside is #51 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,947 a month — $59,364 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Riverside0 – $4,065 / month
E-1 $3,096
E-2 $3,096
E-3 $3,096
E-4 $3,096
E-5 $3,351
E-6 $3,549
E-7 $3,603
E-8 $3,663
E-9 $3,753
W-1 $3,564
W-2 $3,627
W-3 $3,708
W-4 $3,768
W-5 $3,855
O-1E $3,612
O-2E $3,693
O-3E $3,783
O-1 $3,384
O-2 $3,546
O-3 $3,705
O-4 $3,876
O-5 $4,002
O-6 $4,035
O-7 $4,065

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

Moving from Riverside to Westchester County at O-3 is worth $2,928 a month — about 17 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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