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 $2,463Without $1,920

    O-6 at Wichita draws $2,463 per month with dependents in 2026, $1,920 without

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    Wichita/McConnell AFB, KS
    O-6 · with dependents
    $2,463/ month
    $29,556 / year
    At O-6, this is #292 of 338 stations loaded · high Westchester County $8,136 · low Youngstown $1,839
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    Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$3,158 / mo gross
    Without dependents here$1,920 / mo
    In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
    Wichita — full sheetTap a row
    PCS compareWichita · O-6 · $2,463/mo
    Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,660/mo · $43,920/yr
    ▲ RAISE+$1,197+$14,364/yr · like +$18,415 of salary

    What this rate means

    O-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
    Westchester County$8,136
    Peoria$2,481
    San Antonio (JBSA)$2,475
    Yuma$2,472
    County Cost Group 720$2,466
    Wichita$2,463
    County Cost Group 710$2,442
    Goodfellow AFB$2,433
    Springfield$2,430
    Vance AFB$2,430
    Youngstown$1,839

    Wichita is #292 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month — $75,564 a year, untaxed.

    Every pay grade at Wichita0 – $2,478 / month
    E-1$1,320
    E-2$1,320
    E-3$1,320
    E-4$1,320
    E-5$1,377
    E-6$1,689
    E-7$1,779
    E-8$1,878
    E-9$2,022
    W-1$1,710
    W-2$1,821
    W-3$1,941
    W-4$2,052
    W-5$2,190
    O-1E$1,797
    O-2E$1,923
    O-3E$2,073
    O-1$1,422
    O-2$1,686
    O-3$1,938
    O-4$2,232
    O-5$2,445
    O-6$2,463
    O-7$2,478

    Promoting to O-7 here adds $15 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 Wichita to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $5,673 a month — about 378 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $15 per grade here.

    02

    Dependency status is worth 28% 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. $2,463 a month of BAH takes more than $2,463 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.