McEntire Joint National Guard Base BAH

McEntire Joint National Guard Base is paid at COLUMBIA/FORT JACKSON, SC, housing area SC260. An E-5 with dependents draws $1,878 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. McEntire Joint National Guard Base sits inside COLUMBIA/FORT JACKSON, SC, so that's the rate it pays.

Housing area: SC260Rank at E-5: 203 of 338vs national median: -9%

Every pay grade at McEntire Joint National Guard Base

Grade	With dependents	Without	A year, with deps
E-1	$1,812	$1,479	$21,744
E-2	$1,812	$1,479	$21,744
E-3	$1,812	$1,479	$21,744
E-4	$1,812	$1,479	$21,744
E-5	$1,878	$1,647	$22,536
E-6	$2,121	$1,746	$25,452
E-7	$2,160	$1,812	$25,920
E-8	$2,202	$1,932	$26,424
E-9	$2,310	$1,995	$27,720
W-1	$2,136	$1,803	$25,632
W-2	$2,175	$1,929	$26,100
W-3	$2,235	$2,004	$26,820
W-4	$2,340	$2,121	$28,080
W-5	$2,475	$2,166	$29,700
O-1E	$2,163	$1,875	$25,956
O-2E	$2,223	$1,980	$26,676
O-3E	$2,361	$2,109	$28,332
O-1	$1,914	$1,743	$22,968
O-2	$2,118	$1,860	$25,416
O-3	$2,232	$2,028	$26,784
O-4	$2,517	$2,151	$30,204
O-5	$2,724	$2,172	$32,688
O-6	$2,745	$2,211	$32,940
O-7	$2,760	$2,247	$33,120
O-8	$2,760	$2,247	$33,120
O-9	$2,760	$2,247	$33,120
O-10	$2,760	$2,247	$33,120

These are the COLUMBIA/FORT JACKSON, SC 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 Jackson
Joint Base Charleston North Field SBML

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.