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.
E-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County$6,333
Charlottesville$2,964
Portland$2,961
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,955
Oxford$2,943
County Cost Group 850$2,940
Dover AFB$2,916
Patrick SFB$2,916
Fresno$2,910
Minneapolis$2,877
Allentown$2,874
Abilene$2,853
Beaufort$2,844
County Cost Group 840$2,844
Knoxville$2,844
Rome$2,844
Dallas$2,838
Coastal Maine$2,826
Corvallis$2,826
Fairbanks$2,814
Dahlgren$2,811
Asheville$2,772
Anniston$1,638
Abilene is #111 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month —
$56,340 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.
Moving from Abilene to Westchester County at E-8
is worth $3,480 a month — about 83 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.