National Guard Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base BAH

National Guard Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base is paid at LOS ANGELES, CA, housing area CA037. An E-5 with dependents draws $3,882 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. National Guard Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base sits inside LOS ANGELES, CA, so that's the rate it pays.

Housing area: CA037Rank at E-5: 16 of 338vs national median: +88%

Every pay grade at National Guard Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base

Grade	With dependents	Without	A year, with deps
E-1	$3,570	$2,679	$42,840
E-2	$3,570	$2,679	$42,840
E-3	$3,570	$2,679	$42,840
E-4	$3,570	$2,679	$42,840
E-5	$3,882	$3,048	$46,584
E-6	$4,188	$3,291	$50,256
E-7	$4,311	$3,582	$51,732
E-8	$4,443	$3,948	$53,316
E-9	$4,674	$4,032	$56,088
W-1	$4,209	$3,468	$50,508
W-2	$4,365	$3,945	$52,380
W-3	$4,530	$4,044	$54,360
W-4	$4,728	$4,212	$56,736
W-5	$4,971	$4,341	$59,652
O-1E	$4,332	$3,879	$51,984
O-2E	$4,503	$4,014	$54,036
O-3E	$4,767	$4,179	$57,204
O-1	$3,927	$3,255	$47,124
O-2	$4,185	$3,780	$50,220
O-3	$4,524	$4,074	$54,288
O-4	$5,052	$4,314	$60,624
O-5	$5,436	$4,386	$65,232
O-6	$5,481	$4,509	$65,772
O-7	$5,526	$4,590	$66,312
O-8	$5,526	$4,590	$66,312
O-9	$5,526	$4,590	$66,312
O-10	$5,526	$4,590	$66,312

These are the LOS ANGELES, CA 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.