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Scott AFB BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA IL093

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O-2 · With dependents
$1,995per month

$23,940 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #241 of 338O-2 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,558/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$117/mo · +6.2%2025 $1,878 → 2026 $1,995
O-2 rate selectedMHA IL093 ZIPs 62059 62071 62201 62202 62203 62204 +28
PCS compare Scott AFB · O-2 · with dep. · $1,995/mo
Scott AFB $1,995/mo · $23,940/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$1,878
2026$1,995

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

Scott AFB — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco $5,451
County Cost Group 770 $2,064
Tallahassee $2,058
Bangor $2,049
Fort Bragg $2,046
Morehead $2,043
Fayetteville $2,037
Shreveport $2,025
Sioux Falls $2,022
Marquette $2,007
Grand Forks $2,001
Scott AFB $1,995
Columbus AFB $1,992
County Cost Group 760 $1,992
Lexington $1,992
Lansing $1,980
Champaign $1,977
Minot AFB $1,977
Fort Benning $1,974
Bloomington $1,953
Seymour Johnson AFB $1,947
County Cost Group 750 $1,944
Youngstown $1,332

Scott AFB is #241 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month — $49,428 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Scott AFB0 – $2,970 / month
E-1 $1,536
E-2 $1,536
E-3 $1,536
E-4 $1,536
E-5 $1,542
E-6 $1,998
E-7 $2,076
E-8 $2,157
E-9 $2,325
W-1 $2,019
W-2 $2,109
W-3 $2,211
W-4 $2,367
W-5 $2,562
O-1E $2,088
O-2E $2,193
O-3E $2,397
O-1 $1,602
O-2 $1,995
O-3 $2,208
O-4 $2,625
O-5 $2,928
O-6 $2,952
O-7 $2,970

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

Moving from Scott AFB to San Francisco at O-2 is worth $3,456 a month — about 16 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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