BAH 2026Military housing area SC262
Myrtle Beach, SC BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Myrtle Beach, SC military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 38 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page4 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $2,097a month160th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,788a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,523a month171st highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 38in this DoD area
Myrtle Beach, SC pays $2,097 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the 160th 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 SC262. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,989 | $1,647 |
| E‑2 | $1,989 | $1,647 |
| E‑3 | $1,989 | $1,647 |
| E‑4 | $1,989 | $1,647 |
| E‑5 | $2,097 | $1,788 |
| E‑6 | $2,361 | $1,881 |
| E‑7 | $2,418 | $1,989 |
| E‑8 | $2,481 | $2,157 |
| E‑9 | $2,598 | $2,226 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,379 | $1,962 |
| W‑2 | $2,445 | $2,154 |
| W‑3 | $2,526 | $2,238 |
| W‑4 | $2,625 | $2,370 |
| W‑5 | $2,751 | $2,433 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,427 | $2,094 |
| O‑2E | $2,511 | $2,211 |
| O‑3E | $2,643 | $2,352 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $2,136 | $1,875 |
| O‑2 | $2,358 | $2,064 |
| O‑3 | $2,523 | $2,262 |
| O‑4 | $2,787 | $2,415 |
| O‑5 | $2,982 | $2,445 |
| O‑6 | $3,006 | $2,502 |
| O‑7 | $3,027 | $2,544 |
| O‑8† | $3,027 | $2,544 |
| O‑9† | $3,027 | $2,544 |
| O‑10† | $3,027 | $2,544 |
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 38 ZIP codes in Myrtle Beach, SC (SC262). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 29440, one ZIP in this area.
Show all 38 ZIP codesAll 38 ZIP codes
- 294xx
- 29440 29442
- 295xx
- 29510 29511 29519 29526 29527 29528 29536 29543 29544 29545 29546 29547 29554 29563 29565 29566 29567 29568 29569 29571 29572 29574 29575 29576 29577 29578 29579 29581 29582 29585 29587 29588 29589 29592 29597 29598
Other areas in South Carolina
Areas whose DoD code starts with SC, 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.