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.
O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
Abilene$2,805
Dallas$2,805
Austin$2,796
Bridgeport$2,796
Traverse City$2,793
Astoria$2,787
Minneapolis$2,778
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,757
Portland$2,748
County Cost Group 850$2,742
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,739
Whidbey Island$2,736
Rome$2,730
Bremerton$2,727
Charlottesville$2,712
Corvallis$2,712
Dahlgren$2,712
Atlanta$2,706
Milwaukee$2,697
Coastal Maine$2,694
Reno$2,676
Youngstown$1,332
Aberdeen Proving Grounds is #106 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Aberdeen Proving Grounds0 – $3,687 / month
E-1$2,268
E-2$2,268
E-3$2,268
E-4$2,268
E-5$2,478
E-6$2,742
E-7$2,862
E-8$2,991
E-9$3,165
W-1$2,760
W-2$2,916
W-3$3,075
W-4$3,198
W-5$3,348
O-1E$2,883
O-2E$3,051
O-3E$3,222
O-1$2,517
O-2$2,739
O-3$3,072
O-4$3,396
O-5$3,630
O-6$3,660
O-7$3,687
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Aberdeen Proving Grounds to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $2,712 a month — about 8 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.