Coast Guard Station Fort Macon BAH

Coast Guard Station Fort Macon is paid at MOREHEAD/CHERRY PT MCAS, NC, housing area NC177. An E-5 with dependents draws $1,851 a month there, tax free.

Why the names don't matchThe DoD sets one rate per housing area, not per base, and names the area after the civilian housing market it measures. Coast Guard Station Fort Macon sits inside MOREHEAD/CHERRY PT MCAS, NC, so that's the rate it pays.

Housing area: NC177Rank at E-5: 211 of 338vs national median: -10%

Every pay grade at Coast Guard Station Fort Macon

Grade	With dependents	Without	A year, with deps
E-1	$1,806	$1,683	$21,672
E-2	$1,806	$1,683	$21,672
E-3	$1,806	$1,683	$21,672
E-4	$1,806	$1,683	$21,672
E-5	$1,851	$1,722	$22,212
E-6	$2,046	$1,758	$24,552
E-7	$2,181	$1,806	$26,172
E-8	$2,328	$1,896	$27,936
E-9	$2,502	$1,944	$30,024
W-1	$2,064	$1,803	$24,768
W-2	$2,241	$1,893	$26,892
W-3	$2,424	$1,953	$29,088
W-4	$2,529	$2,070	$30,348
W-5	$2,658	$2,214	$31,896
O-1E	$2,205	$1,848	$26,460
O-2E	$2,397	$1,932	$28,764
O-3E	$2,550	$2,034	$30,600
O-1	$1,884	$1,755	$22,608
O-2	$2,043	$1,839	$24,516
O-3	$2,421	$1,971	$29,052
O-4	$2,697	$2,184	$32,364
O-5	$2,898	$2,265	$34,776
O-6	$2,919	$2,403	$35,028
O-7	$2,940	$2,445	$35,280
O-8	$2,940	$2,445	$35,280
O-9	$2,940	$2,445	$35,280
O-10	$2,940	$2,445	$35,280

These are the MOREHEAD/CHERRY PT MCAS, NC rates, rate year 2026. Every installation in the area draws the same figure. BAH-ASCII-2026.zip

Paid at the same rate

A move between any of these changes nothing about your housing allowance, because they all draw the same rate.

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point

Moving here, or away

The comparison on the front page puts this rate against whichever station you're at now and shows what the move does to the money.