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-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Whiteman AFB$1,611
Malmstrom SFB$1,608
Mountain Home AFB$1,605
Gulfport$1,602
Bismarck$1,596
Fallon NAS$1,596
County Cost Group 740$1,590
Holloman AFB$1,590
Camp Lejeune$1,584
Lafayette$1,584
Akron$1,581
Goodfellow AFB$1,578
Fort Rucker$1,572
Peoria$1,572
China Lake$1,563
County Cost Group 730$1,557
Sioux Falls$1,554
Johnson City$1,548
Minot AFB$1,548
Scott AFB$1,542
Champaign$1,539
Anniston$1,185
Akron is #266 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month —
$47,304 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Akron0 – $2,751 / month
E-1$1,536
E-2$1,536
E-3$1,536
E-4$1,536
E-5$1,581
E-6$1,926
E-7$1,950
E-8$1,962
E-9$2,094
W-1$1,947
W-2$1,956
W-3$1,980
W-4$2,136
W-5$2,337
O-1E$1,953
O-2E$1,971
O-3E$2,169
O-1$1,629
O-2$1,923
O-3$1,977
O-4$2,403
O-5$2,715
O-6$2,736
O-7$2,751
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Akron to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,546 a month — about 10 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.