Fort Custer Training Center BAH

Fort Custer Training Center is paid at BATTLE CREEK/KALAMAZOO, MI, housing area MI152. An E-5 with dependents draws $1,959 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 Custer Training Center sits inside BATTLE CREEK/KALAMAZOO, MI, so that's the rate it pays.

Housing area: MI152Rank at E-5: 187 of 338vs national median: -5%

Every pay grade at Fort Custer Training Center

Grade	With dependents	Without	A year, with deps
E-1	$1,698	$1,275	$20,376
E-2	$1,698	$1,275	$20,376
E-3	$1,698	$1,275	$20,376
E-4	$1,698	$1,275	$20,376
E-5	$1,959	$1,470	$23,508
E-6	$2,370	$1,779	$28,440
E-7	$2,424	$1,818	$29,088
E-8	$2,478	$2,046	$29,736
E-9	$2,589	$2,163	$31,068
W-1	$2,391	$1,794	$28,692
W-2	$2,445	$2,043	$29,340
W-3	$2,517	$2,181	$30,204
W-4	$2,616	$2,379	$31,392
W-5	$2,742	$2,436	$32,904
O-1E	$2,430	$1,956	$29,160
O-2E	$2,505	$2,136	$30,060
O-3E	$2,634	$2,364	$31,608
O-1	$2,013	$1,509	$24,156
O-2	$2,367	$1,875	$28,404
O-3	$2,514	$2,220	$30,168
O-4	$2,781	$2,418	$33,372
O-5	$2,973	$2,445	$35,676
O-6	$2,997	$2,493	$35,964
O-7	$3,015	$2,535	$36,180
O-8	$3,015	$2,535	$36,180
O-9	$3,015	$2,535	$36,180
O-10	$3,015	$2,535	$36,180

These are the BATTLE CREEK/KALAMAZOO, MI 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.

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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.