BAH 2026Military housing area TX288
Wichita Fls/Sheppard AFB, TX BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Wichita Fls/Sheppard AFB, TX military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 18 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page5 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $1,491a month291st highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,182a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,325a monthtied for 218th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 18in this DoD area
Wichita Fls/Sheppard AFB, TX pays $1,491 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the 291st 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 TX288. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,392 | $1,044 |
| E‑2 | $1,392 | $1,044 |
| E‑3 | $1,392 | $1,044 |
| E‑4 | $1,392 | $1,044 |
| E‑5 | $1,491 | $1,182 |
| E‑6 | $2,112 | $1,584 |
| E‑7 | $2,190 | $1,644 |
| E‑8 | $2,271 | $1,704 |
| E‑9 | $2,427 | $1,821 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,133 | $1,602 |
| W‑2 | $2,223 | $1,668 |
| W‑3 | $2,328 | $1,827 |
| W‑4 | $2,463 | $2,127 |
| W‑5 | $2,634 | $2,208 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,202 | $1,653 |
| O‑2E | $2,310 | $1,764 |
| O‑3E | $2,490 | $2,106 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $1,572 | $1,290 |
| O‑2 | $2,106 | $1,647 |
| O‑3 | $2,325 | $1,887 |
| O‑4 | $2,691 | $2,187 |
| O‑5 | $2,955 | $2,229 |
| O‑6 | $2,979 | $2,304 |
| O‑7 | $2,997 | $2,343 |
| O‑8† | $2,997 | $2,343 |
| O‑9† | $2,997 | $2,343 |
| O‑10† | $2,997 | $2,343 |
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 18 ZIP codes in Wichita Fls/Sheppard AFB, TX (TX288). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 76311, the ZIP of Sheppard AFB.
Show all 18 ZIP codesAll 18 ZIP codes
- 763xx
- 76301 76302 76305 76306 76307 76308 76309 76310 76311 76351 76354 76360 76366 76367 76369 76370 76379 76389
Installations whose address is in this area
Military OneSource lists these installations at a ZIP code in TX288; the ZIP shown is the one in each installation’s main contact address.
Other areas in Texas
Areas whose DoD code starts with TX, with the E‑5 with-dependents rate for 2026.
- Abilene/Dyess AFB, TX$1,872
- Austin, TX$2,241
- Beaumont, TX$1,518
- Brownsville, TX$1,503
- College Station, TX$1,758
- Corpus Christi, TX$1,788
- Dallas, TX$2,469
- El Paso, TX$1,809
- Fort Hood, TX$1,695
- Fort Worth, TX$2,118
- Goodfellow AFB, TX$1,578
- Houston, TX$2,193
- Laughlin AFB/Del Rio, TX$1,470
- Lubbock, TX$1,476
- San Antonio, TX$1,869
- Waco, TX$1,755
- Wichita Fls/Sheppard AFB, TX$1,491
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.