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 $3,735Without $3,192

    E-5 at Staten Island draws $3,735 per month with dependents in 2026, $3,192 without

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    Staten Island, NY
    E-5 · with dependents
    $3,735/ month
    $44,820 / year
    At E-5, this is #19 of 338 stations loaded · high San Francisco $5,127 · low Anniston $1,185
    MHA NY413 · ZIPs 07002 10301 10302 10303 10304 10305 +9 more
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$4,788 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$3,192 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Staten Island — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareStaten Island · E-5 · $3,735/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,478/mo · $29,736/yr
    ▼ CUT$1,257−$15,084/yr · like −$19,338 of salary

    What this rate means

    E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
    San Francisco$5,127
    Cape Cod-Plymouth$3,924
    Los Angeles$3,882
    Kauai County$3,798
    Oakland$3,759
    Staten Island$3,735
    Honolulu County$3,663
    Miami$3,660
    Hawaii County$3,594
    Fort Monmouth$3,549
    Anniston$1,185

    Staten Island is #19 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 Staten Island0 – $5,484 / month
    E-1$3,549
    E-2$3,549
    E-3$3,549
    E-4$3,549
    E-5$3,735
    E-6$4,215
    E-7$4,341
    E-8$4,473
    E-9$4,692
    W-1$4,236
    W-2$4,395
    W-3$4,560
    W-4$4,743
    W-5$4,968
    O-1E$4,362
    O-2E$4,533
    O-3E$4,776
    O-1$3,798
    O-2$4,209
    O-3$4,554
    O-4$5,043
    O-5$5,394
    O-6$5,442
    O-7$5,484

    Promoting to E-6 here adds $480 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 Staten Island to San Francisco at E-5 is worth $1,392 a month — about 3 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $480 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 17% 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. $3,735 a month of BAH takes more than $3,735 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.