BAH 2026Military housing area OR244
Salem, OR BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Salem, OR military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 33 ZIP codes it covers.
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- E‑5 with dependents
- $2,004a month177th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,635a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,709a monthtied for 144th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 33in this DoD area
Salem, OR pays $2,004 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the 177th 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 OR244. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,872 | $1,455 |
| E‑2 | $1,872 | $1,455 |
| E‑3 | $1,872 | $1,455 |
| E‑4 | $1,872 | $1,455 |
| E‑5 | $2,004 | $1,635 |
| E‑6 | $2,397 | $1,797 |
| E‑7 | $2,511 | $1,884 |
| E‑8 | $2,634 | $2,088 |
| E‑9 | $2,796 | $2,199 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,418 | $1,839 |
| W‑2 | $2,562 | $2,085 |
| W‑3 | $2,712 | $2,214 |
| W‑4 | $2,826 | $2,421 |
| W‑5 | $2,967 | $2,538 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,532 | $2,001 |
| O‑2E | $2,688 | $2,175 |
| O‑3E | $2,847 | $2,391 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $2,058 | $1,740 |
| O‑2 | $2,394 | $1,965 |
| O‑3 | $2,709 | $2,253 |
| O‑4 | $3,009 | $2,514 |
| O‑5 | $3,228 | $2,580 |
| O‑6 | $3,252 | $2,691 |
| O‑7 | $3,276 | $2,736 |
| O‑8† | $3,276 | $2,736 |
| O‑9† | $3,276 | $2,736 |
| O‑10† | $3,276 | $2,736 |
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 33 ZIP codes in Salem, OR (OR244). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 97002, one ZIP in this area.
Show all 33 ZIP codesAll 33 ZIP codes
- 970xx
- 97002 97020 97026 97032 97071
- 971xx
- 97137
- 973xx
- 97301 97302 97303 97305 97306 97307 97308 97309 97310 97311 97312 97314 97317 97325 97342 97346 97350 97352 97358 97362 97373 97375 97381 97383 97384 97385 97392
Other areas in Oregon
Areas whose DoD code starts with OR, 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.