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 $1,878Without $1,410

    W-1 at Springfield draws $1,878 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,410 without

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    Springfield, MO
    W-1 · with dependents
    $1,878/ month
    $22,536 / year
    At W-1, this is #274 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,472 · low Youngstown $1,350
    MHA MO164 · ZIPs 65604 65610 65612 65619 65620 65629 +32 more
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,408 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,410 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Springfield — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareSpringfield · W-1 · $1,878/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,760/mo · $33,120/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$882+$10,584/yr · like +$13,569 of salary

    What this rate means

    W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
    San Francisco$5,472
    Topeka$1,884
    County Cost Group 730$1,881
    Brownsville$1,878
    Peoria$1,878
    Springfield$1,878
    Oklahoma City$1,869
    Sparta$1,866
    Wright-Patterson AFB$1,866
    Lafayette$1,860
    Youngstown$1,350

    Springfield is #274 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month — $49,464 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 W-2 here adds $54 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 W-1 is worth $3,594 a month — about 67 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $54 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 33% 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. $1,878 a month of BAH takes more than $1,878 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.