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 $4,035Without $3,684

    O-6 at Riverside draws $4,035 per month with dependents in 2026, $3,684 without

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    Riverside, CA
    O-6 · with dependents
    $4,035/ month
    $48,420 / year
    At O-6, this is #64 of 338 stations loaded · high Westchester County $8,136 · low Youngstown $1,839
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$5,173 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$3,684 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Riverside — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareRiverside · O-6 · $4,035/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,660/mo · $43,920/yr
    ▼ CUT$375−$4,500/yr · like −$5,769 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
    Westchester County$8,136
    Stockton$4,080
    Santa Fe$4,056
    Fort G. G. Meade$4,047
    Ketchikan$4,035
    Riverside$4,035
    Madison$4,026
    Hampden County$4,011
    Cape May$4,002
    Everett$3,969
    Youngstown$1,839

    Riverside is #64 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month — $75,564 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

    Promoting to O-7 here adds $30 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 Riverside to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $4,101 a month — about 137 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $30 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 10% 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. $4,035 a month of BAH takes more than $4,035 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.