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 $1,452Without $1,194

    O-1 at Springfield draws $1,452 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,194 without

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    Springfield, MO
    O-1 · with dependents
    $1,452/ month
    $17,424 / year
    At O-1, this is #309 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,172 · low Youngstown $1,218
    MHA MO164 · ZIPs 65604 65610 65612 65619 65620 65629 +32 more
    Your grade is calledARMY2LTUSMC2ndLtNAVYENSUSAF2d Lt
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$1,862 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,194 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Springfield — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareSpringfield · O-1 · $1,452/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,517/mo · $30,204/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$1,065+$12,780/yr · like +$16,385 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
    San Francisco$5,172
    County Cost Group 620$1,461
    County Cost Group 610$1,455
    Sparta$1,455
    Charleston$1,452
    Springfield$1,452
    County Cost Group 600$1,446
    County Cost Group 590$1,437
    Paducah$1,434
    County Cost Group 580$1,425
    Youngstown$1,218

    Springfield is #309 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month — $47,448 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Springfield0 – $2,685 / month
    E-1$1,293
    E-2$1,293
    E-3$1,293
    E-4$1,293
    E-5$1,389
    E-6$1,857
    E-7$1,908
    E-8$1,962
    E-9$2,103
    W-1$1,878
    W-2$1,932
    W-3$2,001
    W-4$2,142
    W-5$2,319
    O-1E$1,914
    O-2E$1,989
    O-3E$2,169
    O-1$1,452
    O-2$1,851
    O-3$1,998
    O-4$2,376
    O-5$2,649
    O-6$2,670
    O-7$2,685

    Promoting to O-2 here adds $399 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 Springfield to San Francisco at O-1 is worth $3,720 a month — about 9 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $399 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 22% 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. $1,452 a month of BAH takes more than $1,452 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.