Key terms
Understanding your LES
What is an ?
Your Leave and Earnings Statement is your official monthly pay document from DFAS. Entitlements, deductions, allotments, and leave balance — all in one place.
Where to find it
Log into myPay and select "Leave and Earnings Statement" to view current and recent statements.
What we check
Base pay, (by duty station), , , FSGLI, FICA, FSA, HFP/IDP, HDP, TSP, and tax withholding. COLA/OHA are flagged for manual review.
What we can't check
Advance debts, allotments, garnishments, retroactive adjustments, bonuses, leave sell-back, or court-ordered deductions.
Found a discrepancy? Here's what to do
Pay issues → Finance Office
For issues with pay amounts, entitlements, deductions, taxes, BAH, BAS, special pays, or allotments — contact your local Finance Office (FSO).
- • Bring a printout of your audit results
- • Reference the specific LES line items
- • File a pay inquiry via myPay
- • DFAS customer service: 1-888-332-7411
Personnel issues → MPF / S1
For issues with PEBD, DIEMS, ETS/DOS, YOS, rank/promotion dates, dependency records, or SLR — contact your Military Personnel Flight (MPF) or S1/G1.
- • Personnel records drive pay calculations
- • Bring supporting documents (orders, certs, etc.)
- • After MPF corrects the record, Finance updates pay
- • Guard/Reserve: contact unit admin or HRO
Common LES errors
What changed
- Marine Corps Hostile Fire Pay rises to $450 and Imminent Danger Pay to $275 a month ($9.16 a day) under MARADMIN 433/26. The auditor checks Marine LES months from October 2026 against the new rates.
- 2026 DFAS Basic Pay Tables take effect (37 U.S.C. § 203).37 U.S.C. § 203
- 2026 BAH Rate Tables take effect (37 U.S.C. § 403).37 U.S.C. § 403
- 2026 BAS rates take effect per DoD FMR Vol. 7A Chapter 25 (37 U.S.C. § 402).37 U.S.C. § 402
- IRS Publication 15-T 2026 withholding tables applied to federal income tax withholding (FITW).IRS Publication 15-T
About this entitlement
What you need to know — straight from the regulation
What an LES is
The Leave and Earnings Statement (LES) is the monthly payroll statement issued by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) to active-duty, Reserve, and National Guard members of the DoD Military Services. It documents pay, allowances, deductions, withholdings, leave balance, and TSP contributions for the pay period.
Every pay, allowance, and deduction line on the LES is governed by the DoD Financial Management Regulation (FMR), Volume 7A — the regulation that prescribes how each element of military pay is computed. The official LES is accessed through myPay (mypay.dfas.mil).
DoD FMR Vol. 7A · DFAS Leave and Earnings Statement guide
What this auditor compares against
This tool compares LES line items against the official rate tables that DFAS itself uses to compute pay: the DFAS 2026 Basic Pay Tables (37 U.S.C. § 203), the 2026 BAH Rate Tables published by DTMO (37 U.S.C. § 403; DoD FMR Vol. 7A, Chapter 26), BAS rates from DoD FMR Vol. 7A Chapter 25 (37 U.S.C. § 402), Special & Incentive Pay tables (37 U.S.C. Chapter 5), IRS Publication 15-T monthly percentage-method withholding, and FICA (Social Security 6.2% and Medicare 1.45%).
A mismatch between the LES and a published rate does not always indicate a finance error — some discrepancies reflect advance pay, debts, allotments, pro-ration due to mid-month transactions, or withholding elections filed by the member. Confirmed discrepancies should be taken to the servicing finance office with supporting documentation.
37 U.S.C. §§ 203, 402, 403, Chapter 5 · DoD FMR Vol. 7A (Chapters 25, 26) · IRS Publication 15-T
Statute of limitations on pay errors
Claims for underpaid military wages are generally subject to the six-year statute of limitations under 31 U.S.C. § 3702 (the Barring Act). Members who identify an LES error should file a claim through their servicing finance office with the relevant LES line item and the authoritative rate citation.
31 U.S.C. § 3702 (Barring Act)
Source & references
- Primary source
- DFAS 2026 Military Pay Tables · DTMO 2026 BAH Rate Tables · IRS Publication 15-T · DoD FMR Vol. 7A — view official publication
- Regulatory reference
- DoD FMR Vol. 7A (all pay/allowance chapters) · 31 U.S.C. § 3702
- Effective date
- January 1, 2026
- myPay (DFAS) — view your official LES
- https://mypay.dfas.mil/
Military Toolkit is not affiliated with the Department of Defense, DFAS, DTMO, the Department of Veterans Affairs, or any government agency. Rates and rules on this page are pulled directly from the publications cited above. Always verify with your finance office, TMO, or the official rate page before making financial or planning decisions.