Military pay: the 2026 DFAS tables

DFAS's military pay tables effective January 1, 2026 list monthly basic pay for 27 pay grades by years of service, from $2,407.20 to $18,999.90 (the Executive Schedule cap on officer pay). The basic allowance for subsistence is $476.95 for enlisted members and $328.48 for officers. Housing allowances are set by location and are not tabled here.

Effective January 1, 2026. Source: DFAS, Basic Pay – Enlisted, page updated January 12, 2026; captured October 20, 2026 in a browser (DFAS blocks scripted downloads); capture SHA-256 2b200c337ed9…

What is here

• Basic pay: Enlisted (9 pay grades, 22 years-of-service columns).
• Basic pay: Warrant Officers (5 pay grades, 22 years-of-service columns).
• Basic pay: Officers (10 pay grades, 22 years-of-service columns).
• Basic pay: Officers (O-1, O-2 and O-3) with more than 4 years of creditable service (3 pay grades, 22 years-of-service columns).
• Reserve component drill pay: 1 Drill and 4 Drills by grade and years of service.
• Basic allowance for subsistence (BAS): the current rates and the 2011 to 2026 history.
• Basic allowance for housing (BAH): what it is and where the official calculator is; no rates here.
• 27 pay grade pages, one per grade DFAS lists, with the grade's monthly pay across years of service (index below).

How to read the tables

• Every figure is dollars per month. Annual figures on the grade pages are stated as twelve times the monthly rate, with the arithmetic shown; they are not DFAS figures.
• Columns are cumulative years of service. "2 or less" means up to and including 2 years; "Over 6" means more than 6 years and up to 8 (the next column starts at "Over 8").
• A dash is a cell DFAS leaves empty: the table has no rate for that grade at that length of service (E-9, for example, starts at over 10 years).
• Basic pay is one part of military compensation. Allowances, special and incentive pays and tax treatment are separate and not in these tables.

Rules DFAS states in its notes

• An E-9 serving as a senior enlisted advisor is paid $11,166.90 a month regardless of years of service.
• An E-1 with less than 4 months of active duty is paid $2,225.70; academy cadets, midshipmen and ROTC members and applicants, $1,452.90.
• Officer basic pay is limited to Executive Schedule level II ($18,999.90 a month in 2026) for O-7 through O-10 and to level V ($15,408.30) for O-6 and below, which is why the right-hand columns repeat.
• The O-1, O-2 and O-3 rates do not apply to officers credited with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant officer service; the O-1E to O-3E table applies to them.

Effective date and when each DFAS page was updated

All the tables take effect January 1, 2026. DFAS prints its own "page updated" date on each page, and they differ; each is kept as published.

DFAS answers scripted downloads with an error, so each page was read in a web browser and the tables were saved as JSON; the files are committed to the site's repository with their SHA-256 and the site is rebuilt from them. DFAS republishes the tables each January; the 2027 tables replace these when they are captured.

Pay grade pages

Enlisted

• E-1
• E-2
• E-3
• E-4
• E-5
• E-6
• E-7
• E-8
• E-9

Warrant officers

• W-1
• W-2
• W-3
• W-4
• W-5

Officers

• O-1
• O-2
• O-3
• O-4
• O-5
• O-6
• O-7
• O-8
• O-9
• O-10

Officers with prior enlisted service (O-1E to O-3E)

• O-1E
• O-2E
• O-3E

About these figures

FastWages is not affiliated with the Department of Defense, DFAS or any military service. The tables reproduce what DFAS publishes, cell for cell, and are reference data: they are not pay, career or financial advice, and what a member is actually paid depends on facts this site does not know. Nothing on these pages is compared with civilian wages.

• How military pay is structured and how the military pay raise is set, in Learn.
• Take-home pay calculator on our sister site FastCalc; this site computes nothing.
• All military pay tables and federal civilian pay.