Fort Monroe BAH

Fort Monroe is paid at HAMPTON/NEWPORT NEWS, VA, housing area VA297. An E-5 with dependents draws $2,274 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 Monroe sits inside HAMPTON/NEWPORT NEWS, VA, so that's the rate it pays.

Housing area: VA297Rank at E-5: 129 of 338vs national median: +10%

Every pay grade at Fort Monroe

Grade	With dependents	Without	A year, with deps
E-1	$2,082	$1,599	$24,984
E-2	$2,082	$1,599	$24,984
E-3	$2,082	$1,599	$24,984
E-4	$2,082	$1,599	$24,984
E-5	$2,274	$1,779	$27,288
E-6	$2,421	$1,905	$29,052
E-7	$2,439	$2,088	$29,268
E-8	$2,457	$2,310	$29,484
E-9	$2,571	$2,343	$30,852
W-1	$2,436	$2,022	$29,232
W-2	$2,445	$2,307	$29,340
W-3	$2,478	$2,349	$29,736
W-4	$2,610	$2,415	$31,320
W-5	$2,778	$2,439	$33,336
O-1E	$2,442	$2,271	$29,304
O-2E	$2,466	$2,334	$29,592
O-3E	$2,637	$2,409	$31,644
O-1	$2,301	$1,884	$27,612
O-2	$2,418	$2,214	$29,016
O-3	$2,475	$2,361	$29,700
O-4	$2,835	$2,427	$34,020
O-5	$3,099	$2,442	$37,188
O-6	$3,123	$2,451	$37,476
O-7	$3,144	$2,493	$37,728
O-8	$3,144	$2,493	$37,728
O-9	$3,144	$2,493	$37,728
O-10	$3,144	$2,493	$37,728

These are the HAMPTON/NEWPORT NEWS, VA 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.

Camp Peary
Cheatham Annex
Fort Eustis
Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Langley Air Force Base
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown
United States Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown
Yorktown Fuel Depot

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.