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 $3,531Without $3,420

    O-2E at Vallejo draws $3,531 per month with dependents in 2026, $3,420 without

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    Vallejo/Travis AFB, CA
    O-2E · with dependents
    $3,531/ month
    $42,372 / year
    At O-2E, this is #58 of 338 stations loaded · high Westchester County $6,564 · low Anniston $1,671
    MHA CA036 · ZIPs 94503 94508 94510 94512 94515 94533 +24 more
    Your grade is calledARMY1LTUSMC1stLtNAVYLTJGUSAF1st Lt
    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$4,527 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$3,420 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Vallejo — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareVallejo · O-2E · $3,531/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,051/mo · $36,612/yr
    ▼ CUT$480−$5,760/yr · like −$7,385 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-2E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,564 / month
    Westchester County$6,564
    Atlantic City$3,603
    Juneau$3,576
    Everett$3,546
    JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst$3,543
    Vallejo$3,531
    County Cost Group 880$3,471
    Sitka$3,447
    Willow Grove$3,435
    Annapolis$3,423
    Anniston$1,671

    Vallejo is #58 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,893 a month — $58,716 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Vallejo0 – $3,987 / month
    E-1$3,090
    E-2$3,090
    E-3$3,090
    E-4$3,090
    E-5$3,369
    E-6$3,498
    E-7$3,516
    E-8$3,525
    E-9$3,597
    W-1$3,513
    W-2$3,522
    W-3$3,540
    W-4$3,621
    W-5$3,729
    O-1E$3,519
    O-2E$3,531
    O-3E$3,636
    O-1$3,393
    O-2$3,495
    O-3$3,537
    O-4$3,762
    O-5$3,927
    O-6$3,960
    O-7$3,987

    Promoting to O-3E here adds $105 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 Vallejo to Westchester County at O-2E is worth $3,033 a month — about 29 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $105 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 3% 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. $3,531 a month of BAH takes more than $3,531 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.