Naval Research Laboratory Blossom Point BAH

Naval Research Laboratory Blossom Point is paid at INDIAN HEAD NAVORDSTA, MD, housing area MD134. An E-5 with dependents draws $3,249 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. Naval Research Laboratory Blossom Point sits inside INDIAN HEAD NAVORDSTA, MD, so that's the rate it pays.

Housing area: MD134Rank at E-5: 40 of 338vs national median: +57%

Every pay grade at Naval Research Laboratory Blossom Point

Grade	With dependents	Without	A year, with deps
E-1	$3,192	$2,472	$38,304
E-2	$3,192	$2,472	$38,304
E-3	$3,192	$2,472	$38,304
E-4	$3,192	$2,472	$38,304
E-5	$3,249	$2,904	$38,988
E-6	$3,378	$3,135	$40,536
E-7	$3,483	$3,189	$41,796
E-8	$3,597	$3,282	$43,164
E-9	$3,768	$3,306	$45,216
W-1	$3,393	$3,186	$40,716
W-2	$3,528	$3,279	$42,336
W-3	$3,672	$3,315	$44,064
W-4	$3,804	$3,396	$45,648
W-5	$3,969	$3,507	$47,628
O-1E	$3,501	$3,246	$42,012
O-2E	$3,648	$3,300	$43,776
O-3E	$3,831	$3,366	$45,972
O-1	$3,273	$3,132	$39,276
O-2	$3,375	$3,234	$40,500
O-3	$3,669	$3,327	$44,028
O-4	$4,020	$3,483	$48,240
O-5	$4,278	$3,543	$51,336
O-6	$4,314	$3,651	$51,768
O-7	$4,344	$3,714	$52,128
O-8	$4,344	$3,714	$52,128
O-9	$4,344	$3,714	$52,128
O-10	$4,344	$3,714	$52,128

These are the INDIAN HEAD NAVORDSTA, MD 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.

Naval Support Facility Indian Head

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.