Official data current

Wilkes-Barre BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA PA254

Don't know your pay grade? Use a rank name
Rank name

Press Enter to look it up.

E-8 · With dependents
$2,034per month

$24,408 per year · federal tax-free allowance

Official DoD / DTMO rate · CONUS BAH, not an estimate

National position #269 of 338E-8 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,608/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$30/mo · +1.5%2025 $2,004 → 2026 $2,034
E-8 rate selectedMHA PA254 ZIPs 18058 18201 18202 18216 18219 18221 +109
PCS compare Wilkes-Barre · E-8 · with dep. · $2,034/mo
Wilkes-Barre $2,034/mo · $24,408/yr
CURRENT

Pick a station below to see what the move is worth a year, before tax. Orders rarely arrive as one option — add several and rank them.

Comparison uses with-dependents rates. Differences are annual and untaxed. Rate protection is not applied — a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.

Open full comparison

Rate history

How updates work
2025$2,004
2026$2,034

Verified official history. With-dependents rate shown; use the dependency switch above for its exact comparison.

Wilkes-Barre — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County $6,333
Lansing $2,091
Sioux Falls $2,085
Tulsa $2,067
China Lake $2,058
Frankfort $2,058
Camp Lejeune $2,049
County Cost Group 740 $2,049
White Sands MR $2,043
Fort Benning $2,037
Wright-Patterson AFB $2,037
Wilkes-Barre $2,034
Sumter $2,025
Laughlin AFB $2,019
Topeka $2,016
County Cost Group 730 $2,013
Columbia $2,001
Morgantown $2,001
Yuma $1,998
Peoria $1,995
Lafayette $1,992
Paducah $1,992
Anniston $1,638

Wilkes-Barre is #269 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month — $56,340 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Wilkes-Barre0 – $2,712 / month
E-1 $1,677
E-2 $1,677
E-3 $1,677
E-4 $1,677
E-5 $1,740
E-6 $1,887
E-7 $1,956
E-8 $2,034
E-9 $2,181
W-1 $1,902
W-2 $1,986
W-3 $2,088
W-4 $2,214
W-5 $2,376
O-1E $1,965
O-2E $2,070
O-3E $2,241
O-1 $1,767
O-2 $1,884
O-3 $2,085
O-4 $2,427
O-5 $2,676
O-6 $2,697
O-7 $2,712

The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.

Moving from Wilkes-Barre to Westchester County at E-8 is worth $4,299 a month — about 29 promotions at this grade. Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.

What the rate table does not 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.

Source: DoD Defense Travel Management Office, effective 01 JAN 2026. How these rates are sourced and checked.

Source record

Where these numbers come from

Official fields remain unchanged. Years are aligned by DTMO's MHA code; no missing value is interpolated.

2026 official releaseDTMO source archive
Effective
2026-01-01
Retrieved
2026-09-05
Last verified
2026-09-07
SHA-256
5446fed831e1…
2025 official releaseDTMO source archive
Effective
2025-01-01
Retrieved
2026-09-07
Last verified
2026-09-07
SHA-256
32d18c4220e8…