2011 BAH rates

[webmaster]

If you don't know what your BAH rate is for 2011, you can look it up online. Unfortunately for me, mine went down $50 a month.

https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/bahCalc.cfm

 

[webmaster]

I stand corrected... got a message from ChunksJR saying you won't lose any benjamins.... still sucks not getting an incease (a bitchin sailor is a happy sailor, right, RIGHT?):

https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/faqbah.cfm#Q3

3. I looked up the current year BAH amount for my grade and ZIP Code and it's less than I was getting last year. Am I going to lose money?
No. BAH rate protection keeps an individual from having a reduction in BAH as long as the individual maintains "uninterrupted eligibility" [see below] for BAH. This means an individual is authorized the 1 January rate for the individual's grade and location or the housing allowance being paid on 31 December of the previous year, whichever is larger.

 

[ChunksJR]

Now, since I will be pinning on in Sept, so I, unfortunately, WILL make $50 less than you do for BAH.

 

[insanebikerboy]

Yay, Jax O-3 with dependants went up $135!

 

[CUPike11]

Pensacola's O-1 went down $39....ah well.

 

[PropStop]

Anchorage went up $50! Which i believe is more than our base pay raise...

Now if we could get a COLA bump...

 

[desertoasis]

So if i've been living in Norfolk since March and I promoted two weeks ago (haven't pinned on yet) do I get the higher or the lower rate? It's going down significantly ($126!!!) for O-2 with dependents.

 

[SWACQ]

If you haven't pinned on yet you are not getting paid as an O-2 yet, so my bet would be you get the lower rate. Don't spend the raise before you get it.

BTW, when I was in the O-1 to O-3 rapid and steep pay curve time, I would add at least half of every pay raise to savings and investments, as it was an easy way to significantly increase the percentage of my income I was saving and investing without seeing the additional outlay from my pay. Since I didn't have that money before, I wasn't missing it later.

 

[ChunksJR]

So if i've been living in Norfolk since March and I promoted two weeks ago (haven't pinned on yet) do I get the higher or the lower rate? It's going down significantly ($126!!!) for O-2 with dependents.

Go to post #2 above if you'd like the answer. I'm too lazy to retype it.

BTW, when I was in the O-1 to O-3 rapid and steep pay curve time, I would add at least half of every pay raise to savings and investments, as it was an easy way to significantly increase the percentage of my income I was saving and investing without seeing the additional outlay from my pay. Since I didn't have that money before, I wasn't missing it later.

 

[D_Rob]

I stand corrected... got a message from ChunksJR saying you won't lose any benjamins.... still sucks not getting an incease (a bitchin sailor is a happy sailor, right, RIGHT?):

Not if you're a reservist on active duty who has new orders that start 1 JAN...

 

[SynixMan]

No change for single ENS in Corpus. No news is good news.

 

[Jim123]

$50 a month.

I stand corrected... got a message from ChunksJR saying you won't lose any benjamins

You mean "Grants." yuk yuk yuk

 

[SWACQ]

That is a really cool drawing! I like it!

 

[MIDNJAC]

Damn, married BAH where I live around Pendleton went down almost $100. So, since I understood BAH to be reflective of average mortgages in a given area, would this be the result of the real estate market crash? I know socal got hit relatively hard in the last couple years.

 

[nittany03]

Damn, married BAH where I live around Pendleton went down almost $100. So, since I understood BAH to be reflective of average mortgages in a given area, would this be the result of the real estate market crash? I know socal got hit relatively hard in the last couple years.

IIRC, BAH is pegged to the rental market.