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Baton Rouge BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA LA114

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O-4 · With dependents
$2,517per month

$30,204 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #231 of 338O-4 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,227/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$15/mo · +0.6%2025 $2,502 → 2026 $2,517
O-4 rate selectedMHA LA114 ZIPs 70346 70449 70462 70704 70706 70707 +67
PCS compare Baton Rouge · O-4 · with dep. · $2,517/mo
Baton Rouge $2,517/mo · $30,204/yr
CURRENT

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$2,502
2026$2,517

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

Baton Rouge — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
Westchester County $7,470
Shreveport $2,562
Fort Gordon $2,559
Toledo $2,544
County Cost Group 770 $2,541
Fort Rucker $2,541
Malmstrom SFB $2,532
Champaign $2,529
Lansing $2,529
Laughlin AFB $2,526
Charlotte $2,520
Baton Rouge $2,517
Columbia $2,517
Whiteman AFB $2,517
Fort Leavenworth $2,508
Memphis $2,508
Mobile $2,508
Fort Wayne $2,505
Lincoln $2,502
Fallon NAS $2,499
Robins AFB $2,496
Brownsville $2,490
Youngstown $1,809

Baton Rouge is #231 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month — $67,932 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Baton Rouge0 – $2,787 / month
E-1 $1,761
E-2 $1,761
E-3 $1,761
E-4 $1,761
E-5 $1,875
E-6 $2,193
E-7 $2,214
E-8 $2,223
E-9 $2,289
W-1 $2,211
W-2 $2,220
W-3 $2,232
W-4 $2,322
W-5 $2,472
O-1E $2,217
O-2E $2,226
O-3E $2,346
O-1 $1,920
O-2 $2,190
O-3 $2,229
O-4 $2,517
O-5 $2,748
O-6 $2,769
O-7 $2,787

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

Moving from Baton Rouge to Westchester County at O-4 is worth $4,953 a month — about 21 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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