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Sault Ste Marie BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA MI145

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E-7 · With dependents
$1,941per month

$23,292 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #271 of 338E-7 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,488/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$216/mo · +12.5%2025 $1,725 → 2026 $1,941
E-7 rate selectedMHA MI145 ZIPs 49710 49715 49719 49724 49725 49726 +16
PCS compare Sault Ste Marie · E-7 · with dep. · $1,941/mo
Sault Ste Marie $1,941/mo · $23,292/yr
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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$1,725
2026$1,941

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

Sault Ste Marie — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-7 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,832 / month
Westchester County $5,832
Malmstrom SFB $1,980
Brownsville $1,971
County Cost Group 740 $1,968
Goodfellow AFB $1,965
Little Rock $1,959
Morgantown $1,956
Wilkes-Barre $1,956
Akron $1,950
Moody AFB $1,950
Beaumont $1,941
Sault Ste Marie $1,941
Topeka $1,938
Wright-Patterson AFB $1,938
County Cost Group 730 $1,935
Frankfort $1,932
Paducah $1,932
Fort Rucker $1,929
Peoria $1,926
Yuma $1,917
Lafayette $1,914
County Cost Group 720 $1,911
Youngstown $1,491

Sault Ste Marie is #271 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,341 a month — $52,092 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Sault Ste Marie0 – $2,628 / month
E-1 $1,386
E-2 $1,386
E-3 $1,386
E-4 $1,386
E-5 $1,536
E-6 $1,920
E-7 $1,941
E-8 $1,950
E-9 $2,058
W-1 $1,938
W-2 $1,947
W-3 $1,962
W-4 $2,097
W-5 $2,268
O-1E $1,944
O-2E $1,953
O-3E $2,124
O-1 $1,590
O-2 $1,917
O-3 $1,959
O-4 $2,325
O-5 $2,595
O-6 $2,613
O-7 $2,628

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

Moving from Sault Ste Marie to Westchester County at E-7 is worth $3,891 a month — about 432 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
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