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Lafayette BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA LA118

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O-2E · With dependents
$2,025per month

$24,300 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #277 of 338O-2E · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$2,596/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change−$54/mo · −2.6%2025 $2,079 → 2026 $2,025
O-2E rate selectedMHA LA118 ZIPs 70380 70501 70502 70503 70504 70505 +24
PCS compare Lafayette · O-2E · with dep. · $2,025/mo
Lafayette $2,025/mo · $24,300/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$2,079
2026$2,025

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

Lafayette — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-2E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,564 / month
Westchester County $6,564
Camp Lejeune $2,073
White Sands MR $2,070
Wilkes-Barre $2,070
County Cost Group 730 $2,049
Fort Benning $2,049
Topeka $2,049
Sumter $2,043
Yuma $2,034
Peoria $2,028
County Cost Group 720 $2,025
Lafayette $2,025
Morgantown $2,022
Paducah $2,019
Gulfport $2,016
Fort Leonard Wood $2,010
County Cost Group 710 $2,004
Moody AFB $1,995
Springfield $1,989
Springfield $1,989
Terre Haute $1,989
St Mary And Terrebonne $1,986
Anniston $1,671

Lafayette is #277 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 Lafayette0 – $2,517 / month
E-1 $1,449
E-2 $1,449
E-3 $1,449
E-4 $1,449
E-5 $1,584
E-6 $1,845
E-7 $1,914
E-8 $1,992
E-9 $2,112
W-1 $1,860
W-2 $1,944
W-3 $2,043
W-4 $2,139
W-5 $2,262
O-1E $1,926
O-2E $2,025
O-3E $2,157
O-1 $1,623
O-2 $1,842
O-3 $2,040
O-4 $2,298
O-5 $2,484
O-6 $2,502
O-7 $2,517

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

Moving from Lafayette to Westchester County at O-2E is worth $4,539 a month — about 34 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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