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Knoxville BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA TN267

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O-2E · With dependents
$2,889per month

$34,668 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #111 of 338O-2E · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,704/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$183/mo · +6.8%2025 $2,706 → 2026 $2,889
O-2E rate selectedMHA TN267 ZIPs 37701 37705 37710 37716 37717 37721 +48
PCS compare Knoxville · O-2E · with dep. · $2,889/mo
Knoxville $2,889/mo · $34,668/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$2,706
2026$2,889

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

Knoxville — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-2E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,564 / month
Westchester County $6,564
Bridgeport $3,003
Great Lakes Navtracen $3,000
Orlando $2,994
County Cost Group 850 $2,985
Oxford $2,973
Fresno $2,928
Patrick SFB $2,919
Fairbanks $2,907
Minneapolis $2,901
County Cost Group 840 $2,889
Knoxville $2,889
Allentown $2,877
Rome $2,868
Abilene $2,856
Coastal Maine $2,856
Corvallis $2,853
Beaufort $2,850
Dallas $2,841
Dahlgren $2,835
Spokane $2,826
Asheville $2,817
Anniston $1,671

Knoxville is #111 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,893 a month — $58,716 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Knoxville0 – $3,543 / month
E-1 $2,058
E-2 $2,058
E-3 $2,058
E-4 $2,058
E-5 $2,184
E-6 $2,649
E-7 $2,745
E-8 $2,844
E-9 $3,000
W-1 $2,670
W-2 $2,784
W-3 $2,907
W-4 $3,036
W-5 $3,195
O-1E $2,760
O-2E $2,889
O-3E $3,060
O-1 $2,247
O-2 $2,646
O-3 $2,904
O-4 $3,243
O-5 $3,492
O-6 $3,519
O-7 $3,543

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

Moving from Knoxville to Westchester County at O-2E is worth $3,675 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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