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Fort Bragg BAH Rates 2026

Official monthly Basic Allowance for Housing for FORT BRAGG/POPE, NC — every paygrade at both dependency tiers, read live from the DFAS rate table.

2026 BAH rates, effective January 1, 2026.·MHA NC182·Source: DFAS

Dependent-rate difference at Fort Bragg

Across paygrades, the with-dependents rate runs $207–$501/mo above the without-dependents rate. The with-dependents tier is the same regardless of how many dependents you have.

At Fort Bragg (housing area NC182), 2026 BAH runs from $1,341 a month (E-1, no dependents) to $2,646 (O-7, with dependents) — 220th of 337 housing areas, just below the national median. Rates barely moved this year: the E-5 with-dependents rate edged up 1.2% to $1,806, the without-dependents rate held flat at $1,527, and a few junior without-dependents cells slipped slightly. The dependent premium runs larger here than at many areas — about $279 a month at E-5. Find your grade and dependency status in the table below, then run your exact figures in the BAH Calculator.

2026 monthly BAH by paygrade

PaygradeWith dependentsWithout dependentsDifference
E-1$1,722$1,341+$381
E-2$1,722$1,341+$381
E-3$1,722$1,341+$381
E-4$1,722$1,341+$381
E-5$1,806$1,527+$279
E-6$2,049$1,638+$411
E-7$2,094$1,722+$372
E-8$2,142$1,860+$282
E-9$2,244$1,923+$321
W-1$2,067$1,707+$360
W-2$2,112$1,857+$255
W-3$2,178$1,935+$243
W-4$2,271$2,052+$219
W-5$2,391$2,103+$288
O-1$1,842$1,635+$207
O-1E$2,097$1,803+$294
O-2$2,046$1,782+$264
O-2E$2,166$1,908+$258
O-3$2,175$1,956+$219
O-3E$2,289$2,040+$249
O-4$2,427$2,088+$339
O-5$2,610$2,109+$501
O-6$2,628$2,154+$474
O-7$2,646$2,190+$456

BAH is tax-free and paid on top of base pay. Rates are set by Military Housing Area (MHA), not ZIP code, and are the same whether you rent or own.

Look up your exact rate

Pick your paygrade and dependency status and get your Fort Bragg monthly BAH, the annualized figure, and full data provenance.

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