BAH 2026Military housing area AL005
Montgomery, AL BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Montgomery, AL military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 71 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page5 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $1,683a month245th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,431a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $1,932a month308th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 71in this DoD area
Montgomery, AL pays $1,683 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the 245th highest of 338 areas. The lowest is Anniston/Fort McClellan, AL at $1,185, the highest San Francisco, CA at $5,127. The three ticks split the 338 areas into four equal groups, at $1,626, $2,064, $2,580.
Monthly BAH by grade, 2026
The 2026 rates for each grade, in whole dollars a month, exactly as DoD’s file lists them for AL005. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,605 | $1,269 |
| E‑2 | $1,605 | $1,269 |
| E‑3 | $1,605 | $1,269 |
| E‑4 | $1,605 | $1,269 |
| E‑5 | $1,683 | $1,431 |
| E‑6 | $1,758 | $1,527 |
| E‑7 | $1,818 | $1,605 |
| E‑8 | $1,887 | $1,704 |
| E‑9 | $2,034 | $1,713 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $1,773 | $1,590 |
| W‑2 | $1,845 | $1,701 |
| W‑3 | $1,935 | $1,719 |
| W‑4 | $2,073 | $1,764 |
| W‑5 | $2,244 | $1,833 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $1,827 | $1,680 |
| O‑2E | $1,920 | $1,710 |
| O‑3E | $2,100 | $1,746 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $1,701 | $1,524 |
| O‑2 | $1,755 | $1,662 |
| O‑3 | $1,932 | $1,725 |
| O‑4 | $2,298 | $1,815 |
| O‑5 | $2,565 | $1,923 |
| O‑6 | $2,583 | $1,938 |
| O‑7 | $2,598 | $1,950 |
| O‑8† | $2,598 | $1,950 |
| O‑9† | $2,598 | $1,950 |
| O‑10† | $2,598 | $1,950 |
E‑5, the grade in the summary above, is highlighted. † DoD’s file has three columns after O‑7, equal to O‑7 in every area; DoD labels its columns only through O‑7, so they are read here as O‑8 to O‑10.
ZIP codes in this area
DoD’s 2026 file puts these 71 ZIP codes in Montgomery, AL (AL005). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 36112, the ZIP of Maxwell AFB, or at a ZIP the check below finds in this area.
Show all 71 ZIP codesAll 71 ZIP codes
- 360xx
- 36003 36006 36008 36013 36020 36022 36024 36025 36031 36032 36036 36039 36040 36043 36046 36047 36051 36052 36054 36057 36064 36065 36066 36067 36068 36069 36075 36078 36080 36083 36087 36088 36092 36093
- 361xx
- 36101 36102 36103 36104 36105 36106 36107 36108 36109 36110 36111 36112 36113 36114 36115 36116 36117 36118 36119 36120 36121 36123 36124 36125 36130 36131 36132 36135 36140 36141 36142 36177 36191
- 367xx
- 36749 36752 36785
- 368xx
- 36866
Installations whose address is in this area
Military OneSource lists these installations at a ZIP code in AL005; the ZIP shown is the one in each installation’s main contact address.
Other areas in Alabama
Areas whose DoD code starts with AL, with the E‑5 with-dependents rate for 2026.
How these rates work
- BAH depends on the area, the pay grade and whether the member has dependents; every rate here is a whole-dollar cell of DoD’s 2026 file (BAH-ASCII-2026.zip), not an estimate.
- Rate protection (37 U.S.C. 403(b)(6)): So long as a member retains uninterrupted eligibility for BAH within an area of the United States, the monthly allowance may not be reduced as a result of changes in housing costs in the area or the member’s promotion. This page can’t know a protected rate; the Leave and Earnings Statement shows it.
- ZIP codes outside DoD’s file, and the 214 ZIP codes DoD’s file assigns to XX499 (“UNKNOWN”), have no area page.
Sources
Checked against DoD’s file on October 13, 2026. The data page lists every file’s checksum: BAH data.