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Lexington BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA VA303

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O-6 · With dependents
$2,652per month

$31,824 per year · federal tax-free allowance

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

National position #251 of 338O-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,400/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$177/mo · +7.2%2025 $2,475 → 2026 $2,652
O-6 rate selectedMHA VA303 ZIPs 24415 24416 24435 24439 24450 24472 +28
PCS compare Lexington · O-6 · with dep. · $2,652/mo
Lexington $2,652/mo · $31,824/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$2,475
2026$2,652

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

Lexington — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

O-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
Westchester County $8,136
Grand Forks $2,703
Wilkes-Barre $2,697
Lincoln $2,688
China Lake $2,676
Terre Haute $2,676
Greenville $2,670
Springfield $2,670
Seymour Johnson AFB $2,667
County Cost Group 760 $2,661
Memphis $2,661
Lexington $2,652
Greensboro $2,649
Fallon NAS $2,643
Gulfport $2,643
Topeka $2,637
Morgantown $2,631
Pensacola $2,631
Fort Bragg $2,628
Huntsville $2,625
Lubbock $2,622
Little Rock $2,619
Youngstown $1,839

Lexington is #251 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month — $75,564 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at Lexington0 – $2,670 / month
E-1 $1,437
E-2 $1,437
E-3 $1,437
E-4 $1,437
E-5 $1,536
E-6 $1,995
E-7 $2,046
E-8 $2,097
E-9 $2,211
W-1 $2,016
W-2 $2,067
W-3 $2,133
W-4 $2,241
W-5 $2,379
O-1E $2,052
O-2E $2,121
O-3E $2,262
O-1 $1,596
O-2 $1,992
O-3 $2,130
O-4 $2,421
O-5 $2,634
O-6 $2,652
O-7 $2,670

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

Moving from Lexington to Westchester County at O-6 is worth $5,484 a month — about 305 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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