Naval Shipyard Puget Sound BAH

Naval Shipyard Puget Sound is paid at BREMERTON, WA, housing area WA306. An E-5 with dependents draws $2,364 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 Shipyard Puget Sound sits inside BREMERTON, WA, so that's the rate it pays.

Housing area: WA306Rank at E-5: 117 of 338vs national median: +15%

Every pay grade at Naval Shipyard Puget Sound

Grade	With dependents	Without	A year, with deps
E-1	$2,265	$1,974	$27,180
E-2	$2,265	$1,974	$27,180
E-3	$2,265	$1,974	$27,180
E-4	$2,265	$1,974	$27,180
E-5	$2,364	$2,091	$28,368
E-6	$2,730	$2,169	$32,760
E-7	$2,844	$2,265	$34,128
E-8	$2,967	$2,442	$35,604
E-9	$3,105	$2,547	$37,260
W-1	$2,751	$2,244	$33,012
W-2	$2,895	$2,439	$34,740
W-3	$3,048	$2,562	$36,576
W-4	$3,126	$2,754	$37,512
W-5	$3,228	$2,871	$38,736
O-1E	$2,865	$2,361	$34,380
O-2E	$3,024	$2,523	$36,288
O-3E	$3,144	$2,724	$37,728
O-1	$2,415	$2,163	$28,980
O-2	$2,727	$2,337	$32,724
O-3	$3,045	$2,595	$36,540
O-4	$3,258	$2,847	$39,096
O-5	$3,411	$2,913	$40,932
O-6	$3,438	$3,027	$41,256
O-7	$3,462	$3,078	$41,544
O-8	$3,462	$3,078	$41,544
O-9	$3,462	$3,078	$41,544
O-10	$3,462	$3,078	$41,544

These are the BREMERTON, WA 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.