Is this my exact military paycheck?

No. This is a planning estimate of monthly basic pay only. Your LES, myPay, DFAS, and finance office remain authoritative.

Does the result include BAH or BAS?

No. Allowances have separate eligibility and input rules. This first version intentionally excludes BAS, BAH, and every other allowance or special pay.

How do O-1E, O-2E, and O-3E rates work?

They require qualifying prior enlisted/warrant service under DFAS and DoD FMR rules. GreenBook never infers eligibility from rank or total service; select the option only after confirmation.

No. The calculator needs no name, SSN, DoD ID, unit, or date of birth, and it does not persist or transmit the pay-grade and service inputs.

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2026 military basic pay calculator

Estimate Active Duty monthly basic pay from reviewed DFAS tables effective January 1, 2026. Select service component and pay grade, then enter years, months, and days of creditable service. The calculator runs in your browser and does not estimate drill pay, allowances, deductions, taxes, or net pay.

Last reviewed: 2026-07-20

How to use

Choose Active Duty or AGR/full-time on active duty. Reserve and National Guard drill selections fail closed with a DFAS drill-pay link.
Select the pay grade shown by your official record.
Enter complete years plus additional months and days of creditable service.
For O-1 through O-3, choose the prior-service rate only if DFAS or your finance office confirms O-1E, O-2E, or O-3E eligibility.
Review the exact DFAS bracket, source year, effective date, and official DFAS/myPay links shown with the estimate.

Examples

Exactly 4 years remains in the DFAS ‘over 3’ bracket; 4 years and 1 day enters ‘over 4.’

An O-2 with total service does not automatically receive O-2E. The dedicated prior-service choice requires separately confirmed qualifying service.

Reserve or National Guard drill / IDT is not estimated here - use the official DFAS drill pay tables.

Rates from DFAS dataset year 2026 (effective 2026-01-01; last reviewed 2026-09-03).

Service component

Pay grade

Creditable service

Years

Months

Days

Use creditable service shown by your official records. DFAS brackets say “over N,” so exactly N years remains in the lower bracket.

Estimated military pay

Basic pay

$3,775.80per month

E-5 · Over 3 years

Source year 2026 · Effective 2026-01-01 · Last reviewed 2026-09-03

Official source: DFAS Basic Pay - Enlisted

This is a planning estimate and does not replace your LES, myPay, DFAS, or finance office determination. It excludes allowances, special pays, bonuses, taxes, deductions, and net pay. It is not financial advice.

Inputs and results stay in this browser tab. GreenBook does not save or transmit them.

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Methodology & source notes

Values are versioned in GreenBook as integer cents copied from official DFAS 2026 monthly basic-pay tables; no runtime scrape or interpolation occurs.
Unavailable DFAS cells fail closed instead of borrowing a neighboring grade or service bracket.
The E-1 under-four-month amount follows the note on the official DFAS enlisted table.
If the calendar advances beyond the dataset year, the calculator displays a prominent stale-rate warning and never extrapolates a raise.
v1 supports Active Duty monthly basic pay only (including AGR on active duty). Drill pay, BAS, BAH, COLA, special and incentive pays, bonuses, deductions, taxes, and net pay are outside this scope.
Inputs and results are not persisted, sent to GreenBook servers, or associated with an account.

Official sources

DFAS 2026 basic pay - enlisted
DFAS 2026 basic pay - warrant officers
DFAS 2026 basic pay - commissioned officers
DFAS 2026 basic pay - O-1E, O-2E, and O-3E
DFAS military pay tables hub
myPay (DFAS)
DoD FMR Volume 7A, Chapter 1Creditable service and prior-service officer eligibility rules

Frequently asked questions

Is this my exact military paycheck?: No. This is a planning estimate of monthly basic pay only. Your LES, myPay, DFAS, and finance office remain authoritative.
Does the result include BAH or BAS?: No. Allowances have separate eligibility and input rules. This first version intentionally excludes BAS, BAH, and every other allowance or special pay.
How do O-1E, O-2E, and O-3E rates work?: They require qualifying prior enlisted/warrant service under DFAS and DoD FMR rules. GreenBook never infers eligibility from rank or total service; select the option only after confirmation.
Are my inputs saved?: No. The calculator needs no name, SSN, DoD ID, unit, or date of birth, and it does not persist or transmit the pay-grade and service inputs.