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.
Verified official history. With-dependents rate shown; use the dependency switch above for its exact comparison.
REISSUED
This area was reissued
mid-year. The figure above took effect 13 MAY 2026 — TX270 temporary increase. Reproductions that imported the December table and stopped still show the old
number. How these rates are checked.
E-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,067 / month
New York City$5,067
Morehead$1,806
Rapid City$1,800
Pensacola$1,794
Cleveland$1,791
Greenville$1,785
Columbus$1,782
Fort Wayne$1,782
New Orleans$1,779
Tallahassee$1,779
Humboldt County$1,764
Abilene$1,761
Baton Rouge$1,761
County Cost Group 790$1,761
Little Rock$1,758
Toledo$1,758
Bloomington$1,755
Helena$1,752
Indianapolis$1,749
Fort Campbell$1,743
Roanoke$1,743
Fort Leavenworth$1,740
Youngstown$1,134
Abilene is #198 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,933 a month —
$47,196 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Abilene0 – $3,282 / month
E-1$1,761
E-2$1,761
E-3$1,761
E-4$1,761
E-5$1,872
E-6$2,820
E-7$2,844
E-8$2,853
E-9$2,895
W-1$2,841
W-2$2,850
W-3$2,862
W-4$2,919
W-5$3,030
O-1E$2,847
O-2E$2,856
O-3E$2,937
O-1$1,989
O-2$2,805
O-3$2,859
O-4$3,063
O-5$3,234
O-6$3,258
O-7$3,282
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
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.