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 $1,620Without $1,356

    E-5 at St Mary And Terrebonne draws $1,620 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,356 without

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    St Mary And Terrebonne, LA
    E-5 · with dependents
    $1,620/ month
    $19,440 / year
    At E-5, this is #255 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,127 · low Anniston $1,185
    MHA LA326 · ZIPs 70301 70302 70310 70340 70342 70343 +28 more
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,077 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,356 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
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    PCS compareSt Mary And Terrebonne · E-5 · $1,620/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,478/mo · $29,736/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$858+$10,296/yr · like +$13,200 of salary

    What this rate means

    E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
    San Francisco$5,127
    Morgantown$1,641
    County Cost Group 750$1,638
    Tulsa$1,638
    Topeka$1,626
    St Mary And Terrebonne$1,620
    Whiteman AFB$1,611
    Malmstrom SFB$1,608
    Mountain Home AFB$1,605
    Gulfport$1,602
    Anniston$1,185

    St Mary And Terrebonne is #255 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month — $47,304 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at St Mary And Terrebonne0 – $2,598 / month
    E-1$1,527
    E-2$1,527
    E-3$1,527
    E-4$1,527
    E-5$1,620
    E-6$1,650
    E-7$1,776
    E-8$1,920
    E-9$2,103
    W-1$1,665
    W-2$1,836
    W-3$2,013
    W-4$2,133
    W-5$2,286
    O-1E$1,803
    O-2E$1,986
    O-3E$2,157
    O-1$1,635
    O-2$1,647
    O-3$2,007
    O-4$2,331
    O-5$2,565
    O-6$2,583
    O-7$2,598

    Promoting to E-6 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 St Mary And Terrebonne to San Francisco at E-5 is worth $3,507 a month — about 117 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $30 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 19% 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. $1,620 a month of BAH takes more than $1,620 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.