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Alexandria BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA LA113

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O-2 · With dependents
$1,674per month

$20,088 per year · federal tax-free allowance

Official DoD / DTMO rate · CONUS BAH, not an estimate

National position #317 of 338O-2 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,146/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$141/mo · +9.2%2025 $1,533 → 2026 $1,674
O-2 rate selectedMHA LA113 ZIPs 71301 71302 71303 71306 71307 71309 +25
PCS compare Alexandria · O-2 · with dep. · $1,674/mo
Alexandria $1,674/mo · $20,088/yr
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Pick a station below to see what the move is worth a year, before tax. Orders rarely arrive as one option — add several and rank them.

Comparison uses with-dependents rates. Differences are annual and untaxed. Rate protection is not applied — a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.

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Rate history

How updates work
2025$1,533
2026$1,674

Verified official history. With-dependents rate shown; use the dependency switch above for its exact comparison.

Alexandria — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco $5,451
County Cost Group 620 $1,716
County Cost Group 610 $1,707
Stevens Point $1,704
County Cost Group 600 $1,701
Laughlin AFB $1,701
County Cost Group 590 $1,689
Wichita $1,686
County Cost Group 580 $1,677
Erie $1,677
Fort Chaffee $1,677
Alexandria $1,674
County Cost Group 570 $1,665
County Cost Group 560 $1,656
County Cost Group 550 $1,647
St Mary And Terrebonne $1,647
County Cost Group 540 $1,638
County Cost Group 530 $1,632
County Cost Group 520 $1,626
Monroe $1,626
County Cost Group 510 $1,623
Lake Charles $1,623
Youngstown $1,332

Alexandria is #317 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month — $49,428 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Alexandria0 – $2,529 / month
E-1 $1,254
E-2 $1,254
E-3 $1,254
E-4 $1,254
E-5 $1,290
E-6 $1,677
E-7 $1,779
E-8 $1,884
E-9 $2,040
W-1 $1,698
W-2 $1,821
W-3 $1,953
W-4 $2,073
W-5 $2,220
O-1E $1,794
O-2E $1,935
O-3E $2,097
O-1 $1,344
O-2 $1,674
O-3 $1,950
O-4 $2,268
O-5 $2,496
O-6 $2,514
O-7 $2,529

The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.

Moving from Alexandria to San Francisco at O-2 is worth $3,777 a month — about 14 promotions at this grade. Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.

What the rate table does not tell you

01

“With dependents” is a dependency status, not a marital status. A single member paying child support can be authorized BAH-Diff; a married dual-military couple with no children is not automatically the with-dependents rate for both. If your situation is unusual, your finance office decides — not this table.

02

O-8, O-9 and O-10 draw the same BAH as O-7. The table stops there for a reason, not because it is missing rows.

03

This is CONUS BAH only. Overseas is OHA, which works differently — it reimburses actual rent up to a cap, with separate utility and move-in allowances. Alaska and Hawaii are BAH; Germany, Japan and Korea are OHA.

Source: DoD Defense Travel Management Office, effective 01 JAN 2026. How these rates are sourced and checked.

Source record

Where these numbers come from

Official fields remain unchanged. Years are aligned by DTMO's MHA code; no missing value is interpolated.

2026 official releaseDTMO source archive
Effective
2026-01-01
Retrieved
2026-09-05
Last verified
2026-09-07
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2025 official releaseDTMO source archive
Effective
2025-01-01
Retrieved
2026-09-07
Last verified
2026-09-07
SHA-256
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