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Camp Lejeune BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA NC178

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W-1 · With dependents
$1,962per month

$23,544 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #253 of 338W-1 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,515/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$87/mo · +4.6%2025 $1,875 → 2026 $1,962
W-1 rate selectedMHA NC178 ZIPs 28445 28460 28539 28540 28541 28542 +8
PCS compare Camp Lejeune · W-1 · with dep. · $1,962/mo
Camp Lejeune $1,962/mo · $23,544/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$1,875
2026$1,962

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

Camp Lejeune — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco $5,472
Lexington $2,016
County Cost Group 760 $2,013
Champaign $2,001
Lansing $2,001
Minot AFB $2,001
Fort Benning $1,995
Bloomington $1,971
Seymour Johnson AFB $1,971
Sumter $1,968
County Cost Group 750 $1,965
Camp Lejeune $1,962
Tulsa $1,962
Little Rock $1,956
Whiteman AFB $1,950
Akron $1,947
White Sands MR $1,944
Beaumont $1,938
Fort Hood $1,938
Moody AFB $1,938
Sault Ste Marie $1,938
Morgantown $1,935
Youngstown $1,350

Camp Lejeune is #253 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month — $49,464 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Camp Lejeune0 – $2,586 / month
E-1 $1,578
E-2 $1,578
E-3 $1,578
E-4 $1,578
E-5 $1,584
E-6 $1,944
E-7 $1,995
E-8 $2,049
E-9 $2,160
W-1 $1,962
W-2 $2,016
W-3 $2,088
W-4 $2,187
W-5 $2,316
O-1E $2,001
O-2E $2,073
O-3E $2,208
O-1 $1,635
O-2 $1,941
O-3 $2,085
O-4 $2,355
O-5 $2,553
O-6 $2,571
O-7 $2,586

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

Moving from Camp Lejeune to San Francisco at W-1 is worth $3,510 a month — about 65 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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