Fort Cavazos BAH

Fort Cavazos is paid at FORT HOOD, TX, housing area TX286. An E-5 with dependents draws $1,695 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. Fort Cavazos sits inside FORT HOOD, TX, so that's the rate it pays.

Housing area: TX286Rank at E-5: 242 of 338vs national median: -18%

Every pay grade at Fort Cavazos

Grade	With dependents	Without	A year, with deps
E-1	$1,662	$1,374	$19,944
E-2	$1,662	$1,374	$19,944
E-3	$1,662	$1,374	$19,944
E-4	$1,662	$1,374	$19,944
E-5	$1,695	$1,530	$20,340
E-6	$1,920	$1,626	$23,040
E-7	$2,070	$1,668	$24,840
E-8	$2,238	$1,746	$26,856
E-9	$2,409	$1,806	$28,908
W-1	$1,938	$1,665	$23,256
W-2	$2,139	$1,743	$25,668
W-3	$2,346	$1,812	$28,152
W-4	$2,433	$1,950	$29,196
W-5	$2,544	$2,109	$30,528
O-1E	$2,100	$1,692	$25,200
O-2E	$2,313	$1,788	$27,756
O-3E	$2,451	$1,908	$29,412
O-1	$1,731	$1,623	$20,772
O-2	$1,917	$1,689	$23,004
O-3	$2,340	$1,833	$28,080
O-4	$2,577	$2,076	$30,924
O-5	$2,748	$2,169	$32,976
O-6	$2,769	$2,325	$33,228
O-7	$2,787	$2,361	$33,444
O-8	$2,787	$2,361	$33,444
O-9	$2,787	$2,361	$33,444
O-10	$2,787	$2,361	$33,444

These are the FORT HOOD, TX 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.

Fort Hood

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.