BAH 2026Military housing area ME139
Portland, ME BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Portland, ME military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 44 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page4 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $3,252a month39th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $2,703a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $4,260a month28th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 44in this DoD area
Portland, ME pays $3,252 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the 39th 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 ME139. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $3,087 | $2,316 |
| E‑2 | $3,087 | $2,316 |
| E‑3 | $3,087 | $2,316 |
| E‑4 | $3,087 | $2,316 |
| E‑5 | $3,252 | $2,703 |
| E‑6 | $3,576 | $2,934 |
| E‑7 | $3,825 | $3,090 |
| E‑8 | $4,098 | $3,321 |
| E‑9 | $4,425 | $3,411 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $3,597 | $3,039 |
| W‑2 | $3,936 | $3,318 |
| W‑3 | $4,272 | $3,423 |
| W‑4 | $4,482 | $3,630 |
| W‑5 | $4,740 | $3,888 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $3,876 | $3,249 |
| O‑2E | $4,221 | $3,390 |
| O‑3E | $4,524 | $3,567 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $3,297 | $2,916 |
| O‑2 | $3,573 | $3,201 |
| O‑3 | $4,260 | $3,456 |
| O‑4 | $4,830 | $3,843 |
| O‑5 | $5,235 | $3,996 |
| O‑6 | $5,280 | $4,251 |
| O‑7 | $5,322 | $4,329 |
| O‑8† | $5,322 | $4,329 |
| O‑9† | $5,322 | $4,329 |
| O‑10† | $5,322 | $4,329 |
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 44 ZIP codes in Portland, ME (ME139). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 04009, one ZIP in this area.
Show all 44 ZIP codesAll 44 ZIP codes
- 040xx
- 04009 04013 04015 04017 04019 04021 04024 04029 04033 04034 04038 04039 04040 04050 04055 04057 04062 04070 04071 04074 04077 04082 04084 04085 04091 04092 04096 04097 04098
- 041xx
- 04101 04102 04103 04104 04105 04106 04107 04108 04109 04110 04112 04116 04122 04123 04124
Other areas in Maine
Areas whose DoD code starts with ME, 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.