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Fort Polk BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA LA115

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O-1E · With dependents
$1,875per month

$22,500 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #294 of 338O-1E · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,404/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$150/mo · +8.7%2025 $1,725 → 2026 $1,875
O-1E rate selectedMHA LA115 ZIPs 70634 70637 70639 70652 70653 70656 +29
PCS compare Fort Polk · O-1E · with dep. · $1,875/mo
Fort Polk $1,875/mo · $22,500/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$1,725
2026$1,875

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

Fort Polk — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-1E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,931 / month
Westchester County $5,931
Springfield $1,914
County Cost Group 710 $1,902
Oklahoma City $1,902
Springfield $1,899
Terre Haute $1,899
Holloman AFB $1,893
Laughlin AFB $1,884
Lubbock $1,884
County Cost Group 700 $1,881
Sparta $1,878
Fort Polk $1,875
County Cost Group 690 $1,866
County Cost Group 680 $1,854
Fort Leonard Wood $1,854
Fort Riley $1,854
County Cost Group 670 $1,845
Columbia $1,839
County Cost Group 660 $1,833
Huntington $1,833
Montgomery $1,827
County Cost Group 650 $1,824
Youngstown $1,521

Fort Polk is #294 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,410 a month — $52,920 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Fort Polk0 – $2,289 / month
E-1 $1,206
E-2 $1,206
E-3 $1,206
E-4 $1,206
E-5 $1,218
E-6 $1,833
E-7 $1,872
E-8 $1,911
E-9 $1,989
W-1 $1,854
W-2 $1,887
W-3 $1,941
W-4 $2,010
W-5 $2,100
O-1E $1,875
O-2E $1,929
O-3E $2,022
O-1 $1,296
O-2 $1,827
O-3 $1,938
O-4 $2,124
O-5 $2,262
O-6 $2,277
O-7 $2,289

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

Moving from Fort Polk to Westchester County at O-1E is worth $4,056 a month — about 75 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
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