BAH 2026Military housing area ME141
Coastal Maine, ME BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Coastal Maine, ME military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 144 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page4 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $2,193a monthtied for 140th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,770a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,868a month115th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 144in this DoD area
Coastal Maine, ME pays $2,193 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the tied for 140th 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 ME141. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $2,052 | $1,539 |
| E‑2 | $2,052 | $1,539 |
| E‑3 | $2,052 | $1,539 |
| E‑4 | $2,052 | $1,539 |
| E‑5 | $2,193 | $1,770 |
| E‑6 | $2,697 | $2,022 |
| E‑7 | $2,760 | $2,070 |
| E‑8 | $2,826 | $2,298 |
| E‑9 | $2,919 | $2,445 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,718 | $2,040 |
| W‑2 | $2,787 | $2,295 |
| W‑3 | $2,871 | $2,463 |
| W‑4 | $2,937 | $2,709 |
| W‑5 | $3,027 | $2,775 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,769 | $2,190 |
| O‑2E | $2,856 | $2,412 |
| O‑3E | $2,952 | $2,691 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $2,259 | $1,908 |
| O‑2 | $2,694 | $2,148 |
| O‑3 | $2,868 | $2,514 |
| O‑4 | $3,051 | $2,757 |
| O‑5 | $3,183 | $2,790 |
| O‑6 | $3,207 | $2,850 |
| O‑7 | $3,228 | $2,898 |
| O‑8† | $3,228 | $2,898 |
| O‑9† | $3,228 | $2,898 |
| O‑10† | $3,228 | $2,898 |
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 144 ZIP codes in Coastal Maine, ME (ME141). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 04341, one ZIP in this area, or at a ZIP the check below finds in this area.
Show all 144 ZIP codesAll 144 ZIP codes
- 043xx
- 04341 04342 04348 04353 04354
- 044xx
- 04408 04413 04416 04420 04421 04424 04429 04431 04438 04454 04472 04476 04490 04491 04492 04496
- 045xx
- 04535 04537 04538 04539 04541 04543 04544 04547 04549 04551 04553 04554 04555 04556 04558 04563 04564 04568 04570 04571 04572 04573 04574 04575 04576 04578
- 046xx
- 04605 04606 04607 04609 04611 04612 04613 04614 04616 04617 04619 04622 04623 04624 04625 04626 04627 04628 04629 04630 04631 04634 04635 04637 04640 04642 04643 04644 04645 04646 04648 04649 04650 04652 04653 04654 04655 04657 04658 04660 04662 04664 04666 04667 04668 04669 04671 04672 04673 04674 04675 04676 04677 04679 04680 04681 04683 04684 04685 04686 04691 04693 04694
- 048xx
- 04841 04843 04847 04848 04849 04850 04851 04852 04853 04854 04855 04856 04858 04859 04860 04861 04862 04863 04864 04865
- 049xx
- 04915 04921 04922 04941 04949 04951 04952 04972 04973 04974 04981 04986 04987 04988
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.