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Fort Leonard Wood BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA MO163

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E-5 · With dependents
$1,479per month

$17,748 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #293 of 338E-5 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$1,896/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$168/mo · +12.8%2025 $1,311 → 2026 $1,479
E-5 rate selectedMHA MO163 ZIPs 65401 65402 65409 65436 65444 65452 +26
PCS compare Fort Leonard Wood · E-5 · with dep. · $1,479/mo
Fort Leonard Wood $1,479/mo · $17,748/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$1,311
2026$1,479

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

Fort Leonard Wood — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco $5,127
Seymour Johnson AFB $1,521
Beaumont $1,518
County Cost Group 710 $1,515
Brownsville $1,503
Saginaw $1,503
Sumter $1,503
County Cost Group 700 $1,497
Terre Haute $1,494
Wichita Fls $1,491
County Cost Group 690 $1,482
Fort Leonard Wood $1,479
Lubbock $1,476
County Cost Group 680 $1,470
Laughlin AFB $1,470
Erie $1,464
County Cost Group 670 $1,461
County Cost Group 660 $1,449
County Cost Group 650 $1,443
County Cost Group 640 $1,434
County Cost Group 630 $1,425
County Cost Group 620 $1,419
Anniston $1,185

Fort Leonard Wood is #293 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month — $47,304 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Fort Leonard Wood0 – $2,250 / month
E-1 $1,386
E-2 $1,386
E-3 $1,386
E-4 $1,386
E-5 $1,479
E-6 $1,722
E-7 $1,833
E-8 $1,956
E-9 $2,064
W-1 $1,740
W-2 $1,884
W-3 $2,034
W-4 $2,073
W-5 $2,130
O-1E $1,854
O-2E $2,010
O-3E $2,085
O-1 $1,515
O-2 $1,719
O-3 $2,028
O-4 $2,142
O-5 $2,223
O-6 $2,238
O-7 $2,250

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

Moving from Fort Leonard Wood to San Francisco at E-5 is worth $3,648 a month — about 15 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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